12th June 2013

-echo options i915 invert_brightness=1 | tee /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf
-update-initramfs -u -k all
-
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
static
-struct intel_quirk intel_quirks
lspci
--vvnn
--foreign /path/to/binfm_handler
--bootsize size
--boottype
+fstype
--variant
+variant
--no-extlinux
-00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation \
-    3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0156] \
-    (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
- Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0688]
- Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- \
-    ParErr- Stepping- SE RR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- \
-    SERR-  [disabled]
- Capabilities: 
- Kernel driver in use: i915
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e # Exit on first error
+rootdir="$1"
+cd "$rootdir"
+cat <<EOF > etc/apt/sources.list
+deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
+EOF
+# Install non-free binary blob needed to boot Raspberry Pi.  This
+# install a kernel somewhere too.
+wget https://raw.github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-update/master/rpi-update \
+    -O $rootdir/usr/bin/rpi-update
+chmod a+x $rootdir/usr/bin/rpi-update
+mkdir -p $rootdir/lib/modules
+touch $rootdir/boot/start.elf
+chroot $rootdir rpi-update
 
-struct intel_quirk intel_quirks[] = {
-       ...
-        /* Packard Bell EasyNote LV11HC needs invert brightness quirk */
-	{ 0x0156, 0x1025, 0x0688, quirk_invert_brightness },
-       ...
-}
++sudo ./vmdebootstrap \
+    --variant minbase \
+    --arch armel \
+    --distribution jessie \
+    --mirror http://http.debian.net/debian \
+    --image test.img \
+    --size 600M \
+    --bootsize 64M \
+    --boottype vfat \
+    --log-level debug \
+    --verbose \
+    --no-kernel \
+    --no-extlinux \
+    --root-password raspberry \
+    --hostname raspberrypi \
+    --foreign /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static \
+    --customize `pwd`/customize \
+    --package netbase \
+    --package git-core \
+    --package binutils \
+    --package ca-certificates \
+    --package wget \
+    --package kmod
 

 
-According to the kernel module instructions (as seen using
-modinfo i915), information about hardware needing the
-invert_brightness flag should be sent to the
-dri-devel
-(at) lists.freedesktop.org mailing list to reach the kernel
-developers.  But my email about the laptop sent 2013-06-03 have not
-yet shown up in
-the
-web archive for the mailing list, so I suspect they do not accept
-emails from non-subscribers.  Because of this, I sent my patch also to
-the Debian bug tracking system instead as
-BTS report #710938, to make
-sure the patch is not lost.
-
-Unfortunately, it is not enough to fix the kernel to get Laptops
-with this problem working properly with Linux.  If you use Gnome, your
-worries should be over at this point.  But if you use KDE, there is
-something in KDE ignoring the invert_brightness setting and turning on
-the screen during login.  I've reported it to Debian as
-BTS report #711237, and
-have no idea yet how to figure out exactly what subsystem is doing
-this.  Perhaps you can help?  Perhaps you know what the Gnome
-developers did to handle this, and this can give a clue to the KDE
-developers?  Or you know where in KDE the screen brightness is changed
-during login?  If so, please update the BTS report (or get in touch if
-you do not know how to update BTS).
+The list of packages being installed are the ones needed by
+rpi-update to make the image bootable on the Raspberry Pi, with the
+exception of netbase, which is needed by debootstrap to find
+/etc/hosts with the minbase variant.  I really wish there was a way to
+set up an Raspberry Pi using only packages in the Debian archive, but
+that is not possible as far as I know, because it boots from the GPU
+using a non-free binary blob.
+
+The build host need debootstrap, kpartx and qemu-user-static and
+probably a few others installed.  I have not checked the complete
+build dependency list.
+
+The resulting image will not use the hardware floating point unit
+on the Raspberry PI, because the armel architecture in Debian is not
+optimized for that use.  So the images created will be a bit slower
+than Raspbian based images.
 
+% wget -O build-rpi-mesh-node \
+    https://raw.github.com/petterreinholdtsen/meshfx-node/master/build-rpi-mesh-node
+% sudo bash -x ./build-rpi-mesh-node > build.log 2>&1
+% dd if=/root/rpi/rpi_basic_jessie_$(date +%Y%m%d).img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M
+%
+

Supplier	Model	NOK
Teknikkmagasinet	Raspberry Pi model B	349.90
Teknikkmagasinet	Raspberry Pi type B case	99.90
Lefdal	Jensen Air:Link 25150	295.-
Clas Ohlson	Kingston 16 GB SD card	199.-
Total cost		943.80

Setting	Value
Protocol / kernel module	batman-adv
ESSID	meshfx@hackeriet
Channel / Frequency	11 / 2462
Cell ID	02:BA:00:00:00:01