Re: Raspberry Pi and 6.1 RC1?

[Christof Meerwald <cmeerw%cmeerw.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 08:17:02PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <20130224184546.GT2359%edge.cmeerw.net@localhost>,
> Christof Meerwald  <cmeerw%cmeerw.org@localhost> wrote:
> >That would be my understanding - unfortunately, only the netbsd kernel
> >is available from the official ftp site and I am a bit reluctant
> >trying to compile a kernel myself. So my hope would be that subsequent
> >RCs and the 6.1 release will also include the pre-compiled kernel.img
> >for the Raspberry Pi.
> I think that the changes to automatically build an image are kind of
> intrusive to backport to 6. On the other hand, you can get a daily
> image from the current builds:
> 
>       http://releng.netbsd.org/
>               Daily binary snapshots -> HEAD -> YYYYMMDDHHMMZ ->
>               evbarm -> binary -> gzimg -> rpi.img.gz
> 
> for example:
> ittp://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/201302230640Z/evbarm/binary/gzimg/rpi.img.gz

Thanks for the pointer -
http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/201302230640Z/evbarm/binary/kernel/netbsd-RPI.bin.gz
is actually what I was looking for (although I had hoped that the
corresponding file would also be included in 6.1rc1 as well).

Anyway, my Raspberry Pi seems to boot with that kernel and the 6.1rc1
userland.

BTW, I did a quick unscientific performance test and only get around
1.5 MBytes/s throughput for a ftp when running NetBSD on my Raspberry
Pi vs. 9.7 MBytes/s when running Linux on the Raspberry Pi.


Christof

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