[ubuntu-uk] Raspberry Pi

[Paul Sladen]

On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Andy Braben wrote:
> On 29 February 2012 17:27, john beddard <john at creationspace.co.uk> wrote:
> > http://uk.rs-online.com/web/generalDisplay.html?id=raspberrypi&cm_mmc=UK-PPC-0212-_-02_Raspberry_PI-_-Raspberry_PI-_-Raspberry_Pi
> says Fedora
> says Debian.

For those wondering:

  Ubuntu targets the ARMv7 *instruction set* 
  Raspberry Pi is only ARMv6 *instruction set*

See:

  http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM#ARM_Processor

This means that the out-of-the-box the .deb packages in Ubuntu won't
work.  —ARMv6 support was dropped in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ("lucid").

Hopefully once RPs are out there in massive numbers it'll be possible
to do a re-built version of Ubuntu; and to possibly make things
transparently work with multi-arch.

	-Paul