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Slackware ARM on the Raspberry Pi 3
The Raspberry Pi 3 has a Broadcom BCM2837 SoC incorporating a Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 [64 bit] CPU @ 1.2GHz and VideoCore IV GPU @ 400MHz, and comes with 1GB LPDDR2 SDRAM @ 900MHz. This revised and upgraded ARM single board computer succeeds the Raspberry Pi (2), and is considerably quicker and a lot more powerful. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are now included on-board. Still no RTC though. Think of the RPi3 as a renovation, and not an innovation. Slackware ARM, as you would expect, runs faultlessly on this device. Compile times have been halved on average compared to the RPi2, for example.
The Raspberry Pi 3 is supported outside of the official Slackware ARM tree by the Slackware community.
Slackware releases 14.1
Follow the link(s) in the table below. These are maintained by a separate author as part of the Slackware-ARM-on-Raspberry Pi community.
Site | Slackware versions | Using official Slackware packages | Installation methods | Notes |
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fatdog | 14.1 | Yes | Slackware installer | An end-to-end HOW TO guiding you through the installation and setup process. |
As long you use the most recent raspbian image and firmware the Raspberry Pi 1 manual install method also works for the Pi 2 and Pi 3.