What about porting Volumio on the Raspberry Pi 2 !

Volumio Development Development talks
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Ha ha,

All is in he title :wink:

Pinpon

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My guess, no need to port anything. All hardware except CPU remains 100% identical. It will run the current ARM 6 based kernels without any changes as far as I can tell. And because all other hardware remains the same, existing drivers will remain the same :slight_smile:

(And all issues with current hardware remain the same :wink: including the USB based ethernet adapter)

When a new ARM 7 based kernel become available (the are some already) for debian (Volumio is Debian based), newer Volumio releases can use this kernel and maybe benefit from the increased CPU power.

3

Great news!! I’ve just bought a Raspberry PI 2 from Pimoroni.

4

I think that it needs a different kernel, but rootfs will remain the same. They told that here:
raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-2-on-sale/

Anyway, just bought 3. See here :smiley:
raspberry-model-t2541.html

5

After re-reading this article, I think you might be right. Userland stays the same (for now), but kernel needs upgrade (which does make sense).

Nice :laughing:

We will soon now how easy (or not) it will be to run Volumio on the Pi2 :wink:

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I hope piece of cake…