[ARMedslack] Raspberry Pi support for Slackware ARM 14.1

[stanley garvey]

> > If you were turning it into a different product which was based
> > on Slackware, then it makes sense to give it a different name.
> > The only reason Slackware ARM was called 'ARMedslack' was because
> > since I
> > didn't really know Patrick in 2002, the web site said unofficial
> > stuff shouldn't use the Slackware name, and so respectfully I gave
> > it
> > a separate name. However, the OS has *always* been Slackware but on
> > the
> > ARM architecture - apart from porting it and making necessary or
> > particularly
> > (what I think are) appropriate changes, it's the same product as
> > x86.
> > 
> > So the short answer is that I personally prefer 'Slackware ARM on a
> > Raspberry Pi' because you're actually taking the same product but
> > making it
> > installable and runable on the Rpi.
> > 
> > > Okay, all my page titles start with "SlackwareArm for the
> > > raspberry Pi' even if pointed to by 'Slackberry' I guess an
> > > installer wouldn't need its own domain.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > s.
> > 
> > Hi Stuart,
> > I have changed my URLs to
> > stanleygarvey.com/slackwarearm_rpi/index.php and dropped the
> > slackberry name, also I can report that slackware-current does not
> > have the udev problem that has plagued me for the last five months,
> > thanks for your help. I will make images available there, I think
> > that you are too not keen on preinstalled images, however as I
> > install this stuff for myself it doesn't hurt to make them available
> > to others as zip files for non linux users.
> > I Have looked at your mk-tegra script and it looks like I can use it
> > to produce a raspberry pi installer using script built kernels and
> > modules.
> > As for issues with the Raspberry Pi, I don't see many, it has no
> > real time clock, rc.S needs hacking to remove the annoying message,
> > and inittab requires patching and that's about it.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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