Re: Raspberry Pi and 6.1 RC1?

[Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Christof Meerwald 
<cmeerw%cmeerw.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 01:29:04PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:35:41PM +0100, Christof Meerwald wrote:
>> > As 6.1 RC1 has been released I am just wondering how I could
>> > install/upgrade my Raspberry Pi to that...
>> >
>> > Is there a way to install (or at least upgrade) using the "official"
>> > 6.1 RC1 binary sets? I guess the userland would the the easier part,
>> > but what about the kernel?
>> You're talking about upgrade, I guess you already have NetBSD running ?
>> what version is it ?
>
> Well, I used one of the images that have been posted to this mailing
> list in January (ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/skrll/).
>
>> You can probably install 6.1 RC1 the same way you installed the NetBSD
>> version you have running now.
>
> I have now manually updated the userland with the 6.1rc1 binary sets
> (and it still seems to work), but my understanding is that the
> Raspberry Pi requires the kernel in a different format than the one
> that's available from the ftp site
> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.1_RC1/evbarm/binary/kernel/netbsd-RPI.gz

My normal way of updating a system is I use cvs to checkout the latest
source, then build a kernel from the latest source for whatever
release it is I'm using. The config file for the kernel is:

/usr/src/sys/arch/evbarm/conf/RPI (assuming you put src in /usr)

Then I put down the latest binary sets from nyftp.netbsd.org for
whatever release I'm using. These should be slightly older than the
kernel, which is good. Then I merge etc manually (because I've been
doing this so long), but I guess it's easier to use etcupdate or
something like that.

And at that point you have an updated Raspberry Pi.

I haven't run NetBSD on the RPI for a little while though... I've been
using my Seagate Dockstar machines.

Andy