Pi 3

[curaga]

So the Pi 3 was announced, a quad-A53 64-bit armv8 board with 1GB RAM. On the downside, the USB, ethernet, and SD card issues will all still be there as far as I can tell. Same usb setup, same usb-ethernet adapter, same SD setup.

Bela, do you have plans?

[Paul_123]

This is in the blog post.   

At launch, we are using the same 32-bit Raspbian userland that we use on other Raspberry Pi devices; over the next few months we will investigate whether there is value in moving to 64-bit mode.

Looking at github, there are only 2 kernels in the boot area....and a new overlay file for the Pi 3.

Aside from using the firmware and kernel source from today, it Should be a straight forward upgrade.

[bmarkus]

Well, I do not see new kernel for RPi3 at GitHub. Will RPi3 use the armv7 kernel? No idea.  Strategy is to follow what Raspbian is doing. In 1-2 weeks I will release a 7.0 update due to new glibc and few minor changes as 7.0.1 and will update boot files. We are using a conditional config.txt with PI1, PI2 sections. Will it work with PI3? So, waiting at the moment also waiting to invest to RPi3 board. But help is welcome from the community in testing if one gets a hardware.

BTW, Raspberry is pusing new hw when a new ODROID appears. It happened with RPi2 and now RPi3 is pushed by the new $40 ODROID-C2 not to loose user base:

http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G145457216438

* Amlogic ARM® Cortex®-A53(ARMv8) 2Ghz quad core CPUs
* Mali™-450 GPU (3 Pixel-processors + 2 Vertex shader processors)
* 2Gbyte DDR3 SDRAM
* Gigabit Ethernet
* HDMI 2.0 4K/60Hz display
* H.265 4K/60FPS and H.264 4K/30FPS capable VPU
* 40pin GPIOs + 7pin I2S
* eMMC5.0 HS400 Flash Storage slot / UHS-1 SDR50 MicroSD Card slot
* USB 2.0 Host x 4, USB OTG x 1 (power + data capable)
* Infrared(IR) Receiver
* Ubuntu 16.04 or Android 5.1 Lollipop based on Kernel 3.14LTS

[Paul_123]

Looks like they plan to keep an armv7 kernel for the time being.  I have a rpi3 on order.

I noticed the Odroid-C2 was released.   My gripe with Hardkernel, is that they do not work on recent kernels, which means that driver support is poor.  With the C2 release, they have made the huge leap from Kernel 3.10 to 3.14   

[geev03]

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ubu@ubu-desktop:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
model name      : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
BogoMIPS        : 38.40
Features        : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm crc32
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0xd03
CPU revision    : 4

processor       : 1
model name      : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
BogoMIPS        : 38.40
Features        : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm crc32
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0xd03
CPU revision    : 4

processor       : 2
model name      : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
BogoMIPS        : 38.40
Features        : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm crc32
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0xd03
CPU revision    : 4

processor       : 3
model name      : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
BogoMIPS        : 38.40
Features        : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm crc32
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0xd03
CPU revision    : 4

Hardware        : BCM2709
Revision        : a02082