Week 3 & 4

June 16 – June 29

• Created a Debian bookworm virtual machine using debvm to use as a test server on my local machine to test Ansible playbook to build Raspberry Pi Debian images.
• Raspberry Pi Debian Images Build Farm https://salsa.debian.org/krvprashanth/raspi-debian-build-farm
  • Commit 5cf4a9fc Refactor: move scripts to build_env; add inventory and playbook
• Filed a bug report to see support for Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 (#1108236)
• Had meeting with mentor Gunnar Wolf on Monday, 26 June, 9:30 pm IST and shared the work done over the past week.
• Tried building (initial workaround of armhf) architecture-specific Raspberry Pi Debian using vmdb2, flash-kernel, and u-boot.
  • https://salsa.debian.org/krvprashanth/raspi-arch-image-specs

Merge Request

• opened !74: Add: machine db entry for Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4

Ending Thoughts

That’s all for the past two weeks! Hopefully, this bi-weekly progress log keeps everyone updated on my progress and helps attract potential contributors.

Helpful Links

• https://dyn.manpages.debian.org/bookworm-backports/debvm/debefivm-create.1.en.html