Re: Finding Raspberry Pi images on the site

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

"Sijmen J. Mulder" <ik%sjmulder.nl@localhost> writes:

> Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
>> >  3. I went back and clicked on "arm" in the CPU column, bringing me to:
>> >     http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/
>> >
>> >     Some good background upfront but under the Raspberry Pi header
>> >     there's only a line saying what models are supported.
>> 
>> Sort of near the top, there are links to "board-specific information"
>> including the page you found in line 4.
>
> Right, I see it now! I clicked on the Pi link under "Supported
> Hardware", which is an internal link.

Perhaps other things should be links too.

>> You mention nightly mirror, so presumably you are wanting to use
>> current.  Generally the documentation is aimed at people using
>> releases.   For a RPI[23], I would recommend 8.1 and earvm7hf-el.
>
> Oh I'd rather have 8.1 indeed. It's just what the page said. I'm going
> with this now:
>
> http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.1/evbarm-earmv7hf/
>
> (There's no evbarm-earmv7hf-el though)

This is an unfortunate aspect of the arm world.   There are many aliases
and variants, and canonical names.   One can ask for earv7hf to be
built, and that is the -el variant, just not so named.  -eb is as I
understand it always explicit (in arm).