Snappy RPi2 stable image #3 now available

[Niklas Wenzel]

Hi Oliver,

Thank you very much for your reply. Just to get that right: I didn't want
to criticize your work in any way!
I just think that if a post on a company's blog talks about a "very
successful collaboration" between two companies or organizations, it
implies that there is official support. That being said, I have to say that
I'm pretty disappointed by the marketing department promising things which
aren't met.

it is a community maintained image even though most maintainers work for
> canonical in this scenario ... once all bits and pieces are in the
> respective mainline branches i suspect we will also get officially
> supported images on the system-image server (or in the snap store after
> we moved snappy away from system-image one day).
>
> and with that said, it would actually be cool to have more community
> people involved into maintaining this community image (hint hint) ;)


Would you mind elaborating which kind of work you want us to do?
How long do you think will it take until the Raspberry Pi 2 will be
officially supported?

Cheers,
Niklas

2015-06-15 12:34 GMT+02:00 Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com>:

> hi,
> Am Samstag, den 13.06.2015, 11:54 +0200 schrieb Niklas Wenzel:
> > Am Do, 11. Jun, 2015 um 8:27 schrieb Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com>:
> > > Since the Pi is not officially supported, you will have to re-flash
> > > the new image to use it (there is no upgrade path for devices not
> > > officially on the system-image server currently).
> >
> > May I ask an unpleasant question?
> >
> >
> > Some time ago there was an article [1] on insights.ubuntu.com stating
> > the following:
> >
> >
> > > Thanks to a very successful collaboration between the Raspberry Pi
> > > Foundation and Canonical […] we are pleased to announce that Snappy
> > > Ubuntu Core is available for the Raspberry Pi 2, the latest
> > > Raspberry Pi family member.
> > > […]
> > > Raspberry Pi 2 will be one of the recommended platforms for Snappy
> > > Ubuntu Core
> >
> >
> > Contrary to what I hear on this list all the time, the article clearly
> > implies that the Raspberry Pi is officially supported. Hearing that it
> > still isn't after more than four months, is really disappointing for
> > one who bought the Pi for only one reason: running Snappy Ubuntu Core
> > on it.
>
> no, it says it is "recommended" ... and many of us snappy developers
> actually use one ...
>
> officially supported devices need to be served from Ubuntus
> linux-generic package and should have a supported bootloader in the
> archive ...
>
> while the RPi work is slowly flowing upstream into the mainline tree it
> is still not completely there ... the same goes for u-boot. until these
> bits are solved you wont find an "official" RPi image on the
> system-image server. the current work on kernel and bootloader is done
> by paolo pisati from the ubuntu kernel team in his spare time, the image
> is built by me in my spare time and was initially brought up by loic and
> michael frey...
>
> it is a community maintained image even though most maintainers work for
> canonical in this scenario ... once all bits and pieces are in the
> respective mainline branches i suspect we will also get officially
> supported images on the system-image server (or in the snap store after
> we moved snappy away from system-image one day).
>
> and with that said, it would actually be cool to have more community
> people involved into maintaining this community image (hint hint) ;)
>
> ciao
>         oli
>
>
>
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