<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Oliver,<br><br></div>Thank you very much for your reply. Just to get that right: I didn't want to criticize your work in any way!<br></div>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.<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">it is a community maintained image even though most maintainers work for<br>
canonical in this scenario ... once all bits and pieces are in the<br>
respective mainline branches i suspect we will also get officially<br>
supported images on the system-image server (or in the snap store after<br>
we moved snappy away from system-image one day).<br>
<br>
and with that said, it would actually be cool to have more community<br>
people involved into maintaining this community image (hint hint) ;)</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Would you mind elaborating which kind of work you want us to do?<br></div><div>How long do you think will it take until the Raspberry Pi 2 will be officially supported?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div>Niklas<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-06-15 12:34 GMT+02:00 Oliver Grawert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ogra@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ogra@ubuntu.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">hi,<br>
<span class="">Am Samstag, den 13.06.2015, 11:54 +0200 schrieb Niklas Wenzel:<br>
> Am Do, 11. Jun, 2015 um 8:27 schrieb Oliver Grawert <<a href="mailto:ogra@ubuntu.com">ogra@ubuntu.com</a>>:<br>
> > Since the Pi is not officially supported, you will have to re-flash<br>
> > the new image to use it (there is no upgrade path for devices not<br>
> > officially on the system-image server currently).<br>
><br>
> May I ask an unpleasant question?<br>
><br>
><br>
> Some time ago there was an article [1] on <a href="http://insights.ubuntu.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">insights.ubuntu.com</a> stating<br>
> the following:<br>
><br>
><br>
> > Thanks to a very successful collaboration between the Raspberry Pi<br>
> > Foundation and Canonical […] we are pleased to announce that Snappy<br>
> > Ubuntu Core is available for the Raspberry Pi 2, the latest<br>
> > Raspberry Pi family member.<br>
> > […]<br>
> > Raspberry Pi 2 will be one of the recommended platforms for Snappy<br>
> > Ubuntu Core<br>
><br>
><br>
> Contrary to what I hear on this list all the time, the article clearly<br>
> implies that the Raspberry Pi is officially supported. Hearing that it<br>
> still isn't after more than four months, is really disappointing for<br>
> one who bought the Pi for only one reason: running Snappy Ubuntu Core<br>
> on it.<br>
<br>
</span>no, it says it is "recommended" ... and many of us snappy developers<br>
actually use one ...<br>
<br>
officially supported devices need to be served from Ubuntus<br>
linux-generic package and should have a supported bootloader in the<br>
archive ...<br>
<br>
while the RPi work is slowly flowing upstream into the mainline tree it<br>
is still not completely there ... the same goes for u-boot. until these<br>
bits are solved you wont find an "official" RPi image on the<br>
system-image server. the current work on kernel and bootloader is done<br>
by paolo pisati from the ubuntu kernel team in his spare time, the image<br>
is built by me in my spare time and was initially brought up by loic and<br>
michael frey...<br>
<br>
it is a community maintained image even though most maintainers work for<br>
canonical in this scenario ... once all bits and pieces are in the<br>
respective mainline branches i suspect we will also get officially<br>
supported images on the system-image server (or in the snap store after<br>
we moved snappy away from system-image one day).<br>
<br>
and with that said, it would actually be cool to have more community<br>
people involved into maintaining this community image (hint hint) ;)<br>
<br>
ciao<br>
oli<br>
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