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(3rd Mar, 2016 04:31 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  

Quote:Well to use the new ARMv8 of course... but it should work with the ARMv7 image of the Pi2 no?

I really don't know what happens if this .dtb file is missing (it is needed for the firmware boot loader to enable hardware devices)
I t may work but I would expect strange things ...

Quote:Yes i know it will not use 64 bit mode/advantages... but it's still a Cortex A53 vs a A7 .

Exactly

Got a pi3 yesterday, just adding the new dtb doesnt work, we get flashing green lights of firmware doom due to not reading the firmware files we currently use (possibly down to using older firmware) on a working rpi2 image, after rebuilding the firmware package with the newer firmware files the lights act normally but left with a black screen. a possible kernel rebuild is needed to support the cpu like we separate the rpi and rpi2 to support the new cpu but not to sure if as i dont do kernels and know exactly how the xbian one is built

on the other hand trying the osmc image doesnt work as they haven't even included the firmware files, but openelc rpi2 image works a charm and theres even an a good bit of extra performance compared to rpi2 even without the 64bit support.