2012-03-02

Slitaz -- Raspberry Pi



Raspberry Pi
An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25. Take a byte!

1. 
http://www.raspberrypi.org/
http://elinux.org/RPi-hub

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer board that plugs into a TV and a keyboard. It's a miniature ARM-based PC which can be used for many of the things that a desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays High-Definition video.

Features

  •     Broadcom BCM2835 700MHz ARM1176JZFS processor with FPU and Videocore 4 GPU
  •     GPU provides Open GL ES 2.0, hardware-accelerated OpenVG, and 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
  •     GPU is capable of 1Gpixel/s, 1.5Gtexel/s or 24GFLOPs with texture filtering and DMA infrastructure
  •     256MB RAM
  •     Boots from SD card, running the Fedora version of Linux
  •     10/100 BaseT Ethernet socket
  •     HDMI socket
  •     USB 2.0 socket
  •     RCA video socket
  •     SD card socket
  •     Powered from microUSB socket
  •     3.5mm audio out jack
  •     Header footprint for camera connection
  •     Size: 85.6 x 53.98 x 17mm


2. download
Raspberry Pi Releases 1st SD Card Image (Debian)
http://www.raspberrypidownload.co.uk/debian/download/debian6-17-02-2012.zip

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/45842273/zImage_3.1.9
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1024195/qemu-1.0.1.tazpkg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1024195/qemu-arm-1.0.1.tazpkg


3.
# unzip debian6-17-02-2012.zip
debian6-17-02-2012.img
debian6-17-02-2012.img.sha1


4. install qemu-arm-1.0.1
# tazpkg install /pathtodir/qemu-1.0.1.tazpkg
# tazpkg install /pathtodir/qemu-arm-1.0.1.tazpkg
# qemu-system-arm -cpu ? | grep 1176
  arm1176


5. start qemu-arm
# qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -cpu arm1176 -m 256 -hda debian6-17-02-2012.img -kernel zImage_3.1.9 -append "root=/dev/sda2" -serial stdio


Default login     pi/suse
$ startx



That's it.