The Raspberry Pi 3 is a version of the RaspberryPi which was released in February 2016. It contains a 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex-A53 CPU and hence is the first version of the RaspberryPi to support the arm64 architecture.
Debian buster runs on the Raspberry Pi 3, but there are a few issues preventing us from releasing an official image:
vmdb2, the successor of vmdebootstrap, is not included in Debian yet.
- The Bluetooth module is untested.
Longer-term improvements:
The hardware still needs a non-free binary blob to boot (included in the raspi3-firmware package). A free software replacement is being worked on.
Any help on these issues is very welcome!
Preview image
To install the (unofficial, unsupported!) preview image on the SD card /dev/sdb, use:
$ wget https://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/raspberrypi3/2018-01-08/2018-01-08-raspberry-pi-3-buster-PREVIEW.img.xz $ xzcat 2018-01-08-raspberry-pi-3-buster-PREVIEW.img.xz | dd of=/dev/sdb bs=64k oflag=dsync status=progress
If resolving client-supplied DHCP hostnames works in your network, you should be able to log into the Raspberry Pi 3 using SSH after booting it:
$ ssh root@rpi3 # Password is “raspberry”
For the sources of this image, please see https://github.com/Debian/raspi3-image-spec
If you have any questions/feedback, please direct them to https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-raspi-maintainers