Re: noob question ....

["William A. Mahaffey III" <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost>]

On 02/04/15 02:41, Nick Hudson wrote:
> On 02/04/15 03:44, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> > .... I am so new to NetBSD that I am not (yet) using it. I plan to 
> > buy a Raspberry Pi B+ & a Pi-2 model B specifically to try out NetBSD.
>
> rpi2 isn't supported yet, but I got one yesterday, so it shouldn't be 
> long.
>
>
> > I (think I) would like to run 6.1.5 for presumed stability and 
> > fit-&-finish. I poked around in 
> > http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.1.5/evbarm/binary/sets/ & 
> > noticed an RPI kernel. However, in 
> > http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.1.5/evbarm/binary/gzimg/ I 
> > see no pre-built image, which would definitely ease installation. I 
> > do notice images in Daily & NetBSD7. How much trouble would it be to 
> > supply prebuilt images for 6.1.5-RPi ? For that matter, how about ARM 
> > v6 & v7 (again like Daily & NetBSD7) :-) ? TIA for any info.
>
> You really need NetBSD 7 or -current for rpi.
>
> http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/
>
> Should help.
>
> Let us know if you think it needs improving.
>
> Nick

Thanks, I already had that link, that's what prompted me to ask 
about/for a 6.1.5 gzimg, since it makes the install so much simpler. I 
think it would make the suite of codes for the ARM architecture more 
complete & symmetrical to have the 6.1.5 in addition to the daily & 
netbsd7, but that's just i dude's opinion.

I thought the RPi2 was/is an ARMv7 CPU, no ? If so, things might be 
farther along.

The above link mentions a './build.sh' apparently to build a gzimg, 
where is that file ? TIA & thanks for your reply.

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