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 * The hardware still needs 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 hardware still needs 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 but development is [[https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware/issues/37|stalled]].

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. In 2018, two further models were added to the Raspberry Pi 3 family — The 3B+ and 3A+.

Debian buster runs on all of the Raspberry Pi 3 models, but there are a few issues preventing us from releasing an official image:

  • vmdb2, the successor of vmdebootstrap, included in Debian "buster".

  • The Bluetooth module is untested.

Longer-term improvements:

  • The hardware still needs a non-free binary blob to boot (included in the raspi3-firmware package). A free software replacement is being worked on but development is stalled.

Any help on these issues is very welcome!

Preview image

To install the (unofficial, unsupported!) preview image on the SD card /dev/sdX, use (change /dev/sdX to your SD card device name): 

$ wget https://people.debian.org/~gwolf/raspberrypi3/20190206/20190206-raspberry-pi-3-buster-PREVIEW.img.xz
$ xzcat 20190206-raspberry-pi-3-buster-PREVIEW.img.xz | dd of=/dev/sdX bs=64k oflag=dsync status=progress

It is recommended to check the image was correctly downloaded by comparing its SHA256: 

$ wget https://people.debian.org/~gwolf/raspberrypi3/20190206/20190206-raspberry-pi-3-buster-PREVIEW.img.xz.sha256
$ sha256sum -c 20190206-raspberry-pi-3-buster-PREVIEW.img.xz.sha256

If resolving client-supplied DHCP hostnames works in your network, you should be able to log into the Raspberry Pi 3 using SSH after booting it: 

$ ssh root@rpi3
# Password is “raspberry”

For the sources of this image, please see https://github.com/Debian/raspi3-image-spec

If you have any questions/feedback, please direct them to https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-raspi-maintainers

GPIO

You can use sysfs to configure and control the GPIO pins. The pin numbers are offset by 458 (see /sys/kernel/debug/gpio). Thus to enable pin 4 (as root): 

# echo "462" > /sys/class/gpio/export

Unfortunately most Python GPIO libraries are unusable under arm64, as they try to detect the CPU revision from /proc/cpuinfo. The issue is tracked here: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/2110

Known issues

Shipping a system with a preset root password usable over the network is a recipe for disaster. We want to tackle this! 😉