[GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 2 with new chip

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Mon Feb 2 16:39:12 UTC 2015


On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 12:05:13AM -0500, Daniel Wayne Armstrong wrote:
> A new Raspberry Pi 2 is set for release with a new Broadcom BCM2836 quad
> core Cortex A7:
> 
> http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/02/02/raspberry-pi-2-model-b/
> 
> My understanding is this new RPi moves to ARMv7 and I will be able to run
> the vanilla ARM release of Debian Jessie?

Well except the kernel, which will obviously not support this new chip yet.

But other than that, it very well might work.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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