Raspberry Pi 4 Debian

Introduction

The following additional make configuration flags are supported:

Variable	Required	Value type	Default value	Description
`TARGET_DISTRO`	no	String	`gentoo`	Define the target distribution for the firmware.
`DEBOOTSTRAP_URL`	no	String	`http://deb.debian.org/debian/`	Define the `<url>` of the debian source repository.
`DEBOOTSTRAP_RELEASE`	no	String	`Stable`	Define the repository used from the debian source.

Disclaimer: This implementation is still experimental, and does not guarantee a working system.

To build the default debian firmware for the Raspberry Pi 4 using Replica.one, first clone the main repository as described in docs/QUICKSTART.md.

Prepare your build environment:

docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static --reset -p yes

Next, invoke the build process using make:

make TARGET_DISTRO=debian CTARGET=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu package_rpi4

Sample (cached) build can be seen here:

Replica.one can generate a custom debian firmware image according to the users needs based on multistrap(1).

The user chooses which packages will be installed by modifying the default repos/debian/rpi4/conf/multistrap.conf file.

Modifying the multistrap configuration file is done in accordance to the manual.

Examples of various configuration files can be found here.

WARNING: by default multistrap does not include systemd. Be sure to include it in the configuration.

A successful build will generate the following files in the output/ directory: