[mythtv] MythTV Raspberry Pi2 frontend testers

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Wed Nov 25 20:38:53 UTC 2015


On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 02:08:28PM -0500, Peter Bennett wrote:
> Forgive me if I am stating the obvious - but building in a PPA will not
> help with getting more testers. The raspberry PI does not use x64 or
> i386 architecture, it uses arm71 architecture, so they have to be cross
> compiled (a process I do not understand) or built on a raspberry pi
> (takes hours), and then deployed on a repository somewhere so that
> raspberry pi testers can download and install it.
> 
> Since the same deb package cannot be installed on both PC and raspberry
> pi because of the different architecture, it may be convenient to
> exclude the openmax interfaces when building for i386 and x64, and
> include them when building for arm.

Well Raspberry Pi uses armel or Raspbian armhf.  Raspberry Pi2 can also
use "real" armhf in addition to the others.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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