On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 07:26:27PM +0000, KatolaZ wrote:
> I recently got one of those new raspberry pi zero. The little thing
> should have exactly the same hw of the first version of rpi. Hence, I
> thought I could have migrated it swiftly from raspbian (jessie) to
> devuan, and I was eager to post my report here.

My understanding is that both the rpi0 and rpi1 are based on a ARMv6
chip, which makes them closer to armel than to armhf. So, I'm afraid
you're stuck with raspbian for now.

>
> Unfortunately, my enthusiasm left room to frustration. To cut a long
> story short, apt-get dist-upgrade fails on unpacking bash_4.3, and in
> particular it seems that the pre-installation script is bein killed
> with SIGILL (Illegal Instruction). This seems to suggest that there
> might be something wrong in how the devuan armhf packages are
> compiled, or just an incompatibility due to rpi-zero. However, the
> "normal" raspbian jessie runs smoothly (apart from the fact that,
> notwistanding systemd, the boot still requires more than 90
> seconds...), hence it should be possible to have the correspoinding
> devuan packages working...

I'd say it's an incompatibility.

Greg


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