On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Florian Zieboll wrote:

>
> Hallo,
>
> although I don't know if you are planning to provide a similar SoC
> specific "firmware update" option to the arm port of Devuan:
>
> Some days ago I ran Hexxeh's rpi-update script [1] to update kernel and
> firmware of the devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_armhf_raspi2.img on a
> Raspberry Pi 2B.
>
> It pulls and installs kernel, modules, device tree and firmware blobs
> from Hexxeh's rpi-firmware repository [2], which claims to be a partial
> mirror of the official raspberrypi.org firmware repo.
>
> So far just FYI: It works without issues, at least for my headless rPi.
> (You may have to mount the boot partition before running the script.)
>
> Libre Grüße,
>
> Florian
>
> [1] https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-update
> [2] https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-firmware

You can edit the fstab and remove 'noauto' from the /boot entry. I just
put it that way there because the same was default in Raspbian.
rpi-update works fine, yes. Keep in mind that the images themselves are
filled up with latest git versions of firmware.

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