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 * The hardware still need a non-free binary blob to boot (included in the linux-firmware-raspi3 package). A [[https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware|free software replacement]] is being worked on.  * The hardware still need a non-free binary blob to boot (included in the raspi3-firmware package). A [[https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware|free software replacement]] is being worked on.

The Raspberry Pi 3 is a version of the RaspberryPi which was released in February 2016. It contains a 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex-A53 CPU and hence is the first version of the RaspberryPi to support the arm64 architecture.

Debian stretch runs on the Raspberry Pi 3 as soon as the following blockers are out of the way:

  • 845488 (ITP: linux-firmware-raspi3 package)

  • 845439 (vmdebootstrap: don’t enforce (U)EFI on arm64)

  • 845526 (vmdebootstrap: allow users to create the boot directory path)

Once the above blockers are fixed, there are still a couple of known issues:

Any help on these issues is very welcome!

The following issues will be fixed once a new image built with raspi3-firmware ≥ 1.20170317-1 is available:

  • The smsc95xx USB ethernet driver does not use the smsc95xx.macaddr= kernel parameter which the Raspberry Pi bootloader specifies. Hence, on every boot you will have a different MAC address, resulting in new IP addresses if you use DHCP/SLAAC.
  • When updating the initramfs only (not the kernel), the new initramfs is not copied from /boot to /boot/firmware automatically
    • stapelberg@ has a fix pending.

Preview image

To install the (unofficial, unsupported!) preview image on the SD card /dev/sdb, use:

$ wget https://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/raspberrypi3/2016-11-24-raspberry-pi-3-stretch-PREVIEW.img
$ sudo dd if=2016-11-24-raspberry-pi-3-stretch-PREVIEW.img of=/dev/sdb bs=5M

The root password is “raspberry”.