Contents - Raspberry PI Community Projects

RPi Software
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Software & Distributions:
Software - an overview.
Distributions - operating systems and
development environments for the Pi.
Kernel Compilation - advice on compiling a
kernel.
Performance - measures of the Pi's
performance.
Programming - programming languages that
might be used on the Pi.
Overview
Contents
▪ 1 Overview
▪ 2 BootRom
▪ 3 Distributions
▪ 4 Development environments
▪ 5 Kernel
▪ 6 Compiler
▪ 6.1 ARM
▪ 6.2 GPU
▪ 6.3 DSP
▪ 7 Other software
▪ 8 Performance
▪ 9 Programming
▪ 10 References
The Rpi is a fully fledged ARM computer, so it should be able to run about everything
compiled for ARM (within system requirements). The boards do not have any on board
storage, so everything is on the SD card. If you just want a working system, buy a
preformatted SD card from the Foundation, or give PiCard (http://www.raspberrypi.org/
forum/projects-and-collaboration-general/picard-gui-sd-preparation-tool/page-11) a try, a
GUI SD preparation tool made by Liam Frazer.
BootRom
The boards do not include NAND or NOR storage - everything is on the SD card, which
has a FAT32 partition with GPU firmware and a kernel image, and an EXT2 partition
with the rootfs.