Week 2

June 9 – June 15

• Had meeting with mentor Gunnar Wolf on Monday, 9 June, 8:00 pm IST and shared the work done over the past week.
• Replicated the current Raspberry Pi Debian build Infrastructure raspi.debian.net on my local machine built daily images and tested on hardware (RPi Zero 2W, 4B, CM4) and had a meet with mentor on Thursday, 12 June, 9:00 pm IST discussed further plan on migrating the current setup to Debian Infrastructure and up running daily images.
• Raspberry Pi Debian Images Build Environment https://salsa.debian.org/krvprashanth/raspi-debian-build-env
• Tested U-Boot package: u-boot-rpi (2023.01+dfsg-2+deb12u1) current version stable/bookworm on Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4.
  • Listed the boards I tested on https://wiki.debian.org/U-boot/Status
• In the meet mentor mentioned about about the contributions of Cyril Brulebois (@kibi) and Vagrant Cascadian (@vagrant) have been doing around ARM development boards. Later, I ended up watching talks by Vagrant Cascadian, which helped me better understand how ARM development boards are supported in Debian.
  • https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/116/
  • Debian for Embedded Systems: Best Practices - Vagrant Cascadian, Aikidev, LLC
  • https://debconf19.debconf.org/talks/121-cat-herding-development-boards/
  • https://debconf21.debconf.org/talks/88-two-pinebooks-walk-into-a-bar/

Ending Thoughts

That’s all for the week! Hopefully, this weekly progress logs keeps everyone updated on my progress and attract potential contributors.