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I started building "real" firmware for my raspi appliances using buildroot. That makes it super easy to build images that completely run from initramfs without
by moreentropy 8y ago
I started building "real" firmware for my raspi appliances using buildroot. That makes it super easy to build images that completely run from initramfs without a single write on the sd card (and are fully booted in a few seconds including userland).
Only works if I don't need any local persistence but makes the Pi just work super reliably. Upgrading is as easy as swapping the Linux Kernel image on the fat32 and rebooting.
- mirceal 8y agocattlepi has the advantage of being able to essentially build and distribute images over the network + full raspbian. on boot it self-updates if needed, builds on overlay filesystem w/ the squashed image as the bottom ro layer + tmpfs as top rw layer.
- moreentropy 8y agoThanks, cattlepi looks super interesting!