PI 3 and Raspbian Wheezy

[mathboy4life]

If i purchase the PI3 and i have wheezy on an sd card how will i get that to work? Will it work automatically? That's my only concern because i have no plans to upgrade to Jessie now.

[fruitoftheloom]

If i purchase the PI3 and i have wheezy on an sd card how will i get that to work? Will it work automatically? That's my only concern because i have no plans to upgrade to Jessie now.

AFAIAA there is no ARMv8 Kernel in Wheezy, though the best way is to to update Wheezy on your older RPi, then put it in the RPi 3B and see what happens....

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo rpi-update
sudo reboot

[RaTTuS]

you will need the latest firmware

now is the time to upgrade as wheezy is BEOL

so start with a new sdcard and embrace the new.

[mathboy4life]

I'll have to stick with the PI 2 because I have custom applications that only works for Raspbian Wheezy.
Hopefully some one can confirm that this works.

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo rpi-update
sudo reboot

[RaTTuS]

you may get away with

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo rpi-update
sudo reboot

after a backup

or rebuild your custom apps

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oops missed fruit's post

[fruitoftheloom]

you may get away with

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo rpi-update
sudo reboot

after a backup

or rebuild your custom apps

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oops missed fruit's post

Do you have me hidden ? as you appear to miss my posts in various threads ??

[RaTTuS]

I think we just reply at the same rate....

[fruitoftheloom]

I think we just reply at the same rate....

9 minutes ???????

[RaTTuS]

our first two on this thread come at the same time [well yours before mine] then when I added the apt-get stuff I realized you had already posted that on the first one
too many windows open is my excuse

[rew]

you may get away with

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo rpi-update
sudo reboot

So far I can report that this does NOT work. I just get the rainbow square. The green led sends MORSE: - - - - . . . . (dash dash dash dash dot dot dot dot (pause) )

UPDATE: I thought I had upgraded to Jessie, but this is still running weezy. Working on the upgrade now....

UPDATE2: I have upgraded to Jessie, still the same: RPI3 will not boot.

[Gbaman]

Unfortunately looking at the apt repo, is looking like last raspberrypi-bootloader package release for Wheezy was on the 20th December 2015. It didn't receive the 2 releases in early February, nor did it receive the Raspberry Pi 3 version yesterday (29th February). It looks like Raspberry Pi have decided to no longer upgrade the firmware for Wheezy which I will admit it a shame.
Is forcing me to hurry up and get a stable PiNet version for Jessie out the door...

[jamesh]

I'll have to stick with the PI 2 because I have custom applications that only works for Raspbian Wheezy.

Colour me intrigued. What apps could you have that don't work on Jessie?

[DougieLawson]

So far I can report that this does NOT work. I just get the rainbow square. The green led sends MORSE: - - - - . . . . (dash dash dash dash dot dot dot dot (pause) )

It's not morse. It's the GPU telling you what's missing or can't be loaded.
viewtopic.php?f=28&t=58151 tells us it's start.elf missing or incompatible with the hardware.

[mathboy4life]

I'll have to stick with the PI 2 because I have custom applications that only works for Raspbian Wheezy.

Colour me intrigued. What apps could you have that don't work on Jessie?

I'll have to reconfigure a lot of things and that's hours of work.

[fruitoftheloom]

I'll have to stick with the PI 2 because I have custom applications that only works for Raspbian Wheezy.

Colour me intrigued. What apps could you have that don't work on Jessie?

I'll have to reconfigure a lot of things and that's hours of work.

viewtopic.php?f=63&t=137932&start=200#p917349

[mathboy4life]

Awesome there is hope

[fruitoftheloom]

Awesome there is hope

Yes maybe, but I will not get my RPi3 until tomorrow to see if Wheezy works.....

[fruitoftheloom]

Awesome there is hope

Yes maybe, but I will not get my RPi3 until tomorrow to see if Wheezy works.....

I have installed Raspbian Wheezy using a RPi 2B and update / dist-upgrade / rpi-update and works as expected.

Put the SD Card in a RPi 3B and yes it booted, but no support for on-board Wireless and Bluetooth out of the box, so yes it works but feel Wheezy has hit the buffers in terms of up to date packages available.

uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 4.1.18-v7+ #848 SMP Mon Feb 29 14:19:45 GMT 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux

[mathboy4life]

Thanks it should be easy to install the drivers for the wifi/bluetooth chipset.

[mathboy4life]

Hey Fruity did you found a way to install the WiFi chipset on Wheezy?

[asandford]

I'll have to stick with the PI 2 because I have custom applications that only works for Raspbian Wheezy.

Colour me intrigued. What apps could you have that don't work on Jessie?

Motion no longer works as it used to under wheezy

[fruitoftheloom]

Hey Fruity did you found a way to install the WiFi chipset on Wheezy?

I used Wheezy as an experiment to see if it would boot up, it does on a Standalone .IMG, not sure about NOOBS install though.

I was not interested in trying to install missing drivers / network / Bluetooth as Jessie .IMG I knew would "work out of the box"

[n9lya]

Production Releases

Version
Based on this list Wheezy should have approx 2 years of life left in her.. It is not BEOL.

73 Jerry

Release date
End of life date
8.0
Jessie
April 25th 2015
7.0
Wheezy
May 4th 2013
6.0
Squeeze
February 6th 2011
February 2016 (LTS)

[mathboy4life]

Jessie just came out couple months ago and I don't see how the rpf can say it's end of life for Wheezy. There should be an update for wheezy at least tell 2017. I cant see how there is no recent update to Wheezy.

[fruitoftheloom]

Jessie just came out couple months ago and I don't see how the rpf can say it's end of life for Wheezy. There should be an update for wheezy at least tell 2017. I cant see how there is no recent update to Wheezy.

Incorrect:

Raspbian Jessie was released in September 2015 https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspbi ... ie-is-here

Debian Jessie was released April 2015

Debian Wheezy on which Raspbian is based goes into Community Support April 2016

https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

FYI there have been updates to the kernel/firmware and security issues addressed if needed


Last but not least Jessie going to SystemD caused a lot of work and going forward most RPi OSes will have SystemD so IMPO the RPF made the correct decision........