ADVANCED RASPBERRY LESSONS

The Raspberry Pi has no BIOS. There's nothing to flash upgrade and most importantly, IT CAN'T BE BRICKED, no matter how l33t the other h@X0r. I probably wasted a couple weeks playing around with bootloaders before reading that the GPU boots the thing and just looks for a FAT partition with a boot flag and the bootcode file. There's really all there is to it.

I've recently become a crossdev cross-compiling fool and I've got a nice juicy 4.10 aarch64 kernel just waiting for a debootstrap to chroot into. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's how the MATE version was made, so I suppose I could do plain Ubuntu (no GUI) or maybe even Xubuntu ARM64 for Pi 3. The possibilities seem to only be limited by the crappy graphics... no Cinnamon Pi, sigh.

In any case, something ARM64/aarch64 is about to pop put of me and I figure I'll at least post a base Ubuntu image, before trying to Xubuntu it. Gotta make a backup for myself anyway. So stay tuned to the Interwebzes and turn the TV war off! :P