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piCore on RPI Alternatives
xuraax:
I have been waiting for the RPI Zero W to become available for purchase for some time now with no success.
Since i am fed up waiting I am looking at alternatives one of which being the Banana Pi BPI-M2. This seems very similar to the Zero W and it is reported that it has a more powerful processor which would however need a heatsink to take advantage of this.
Would I be able to drop Picore onto this board without too much hassle? I am by no means an expert at this.
Regards
xuraax
bmarkus:
Do not know much about this Banana Pi, but for sure it can be done. You need a Kernel for the board with few options enabled or optimized like compressed ram disk, swap and to find out how to boot piCore.
PDP-8:
Sounds like a great idea. To get an o/s upon which to build your TC toolchain on, you may be interested in Armbian:
https://www.armbian.com/banana-pi-m2-plus/
That will get you up and running, and when TC is functional, report back!
When I had my Libre LePotato, I used Armbian for that.
xuraax:
Thanks for the link.
Alas, I am not sufficiently conversant with the topic to enable me to build a TC toolchain. I would love to follow anybody who can.
Regards
PDP-8:
Heh, you and me both.
I notice that Armbian now supports the RPI board, which they adamantly did NOT do in the past, since that was fully covered already, and focused on all the other boards instead.
If one is going to do this, note that they offer more than just the most obvious two links - there are "alternate" images (other download images) that may be more suited to the need, and also a "build framework" that the smart guys can dig into.
Who knows - could be an opportunity to more easily port PiCore to other boards using Armbian as the temporary host o/s for custom toolchains.
Heck, even dCore looks to be a good opportunity to possibly use / port from Armbian to get into ARM more easily...
Beyond me though, that's true DEV territory..
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