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Author: Daniel Reurich
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Subject: Re: [DNG] Devuan Rpi2 Lxde
On 13/03/16 09:28, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 07:54:19PM +0100, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
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>>> I haven't said I gave up on the rpi0/1 port of Devuan. I have said
>>> that it would be difficult to maintain it, if we ever get to put it in
>>> place.
>>
>> I might miss the whole point of this discussion, but I have a RPi 1 A + fvwm + devuan running without any problem. But it started with the "official" wheezy raspbian image ...
>>
>
> Now I am the one who has missed the whole point then, since the armhf
> packages of Devuan should not run on the arm6 you have on the rpi1.
>

that's incorrect, armhf is arm7 abi with vector floating point support.

rpi1 and rpi0 both use the same chip which is armv6 abi but with a
floating point unit

armel is armv6 with out the floating point support.

> I tried myself with the rpi0 (see the initial thread, a few weeks
> ago), dist-upgraded a raspbian to Devuan Jessie and got plenty of
> SIGILL (Illegal instruction), which made the system unusable after the
> dist-upgrade. I tried the procedure twice, with identical results.
>

Yup, it would have worked with armel though but slow for the devuan
pacakges.

> To the best of my knowledge, the rpi0 should be identical to the rpi1,
> except from the form factor, so there should be something wrong
> somewhere, but I can't see neither what nor where it is....
>



yup.


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