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the only problem mentioned was video stuff. does this mean that for a headless server use case it's usable?

• fsflover 5y ago
  No: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31000966 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31000966.
  • yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
    Yes: https://github.com/librerpi/lk-overlay#what-features-work https://github.com/librerpi/lk-overlay#what-features-work (Albeit, currently only on a Pi 2) EDIT: Actually, reading more carefully it looks like there might be more than one blob and it's not 100% clear to me which this replaces, so now I'm less sure.
    • cleverca22 5y ago
      lk-overlay contains many different projects using the vc4-stage1, vc4-stage2, and rpi2-test projects together, you can do the entire boot chain (dram init and loading linux) using open source code other projects act as demo's or tests on how to run custom code at various stages, but not actually boot linux on the arm core many of those demos work on the the entire pi model range pi3 support is only broken due to arm side problems, which could be fixed by just using a different bootloader and the https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware codebase can already boot linux headlessly on both pi2 and pi3, it uses a different arm bootloader