Reviving the Raspberry Pi 3B
I bought a Raspberry Pi 3B way back in Jan'2017. I actually completely forgot when I bought it, that I had to search in my posts. This is June'2024, that Pi is still alive and it can run the latest Raspberry Pi OS. Anyway this hardware is more than 7 years old and it shows. I tried to launch the browser and it hanged. Turns out 7 years newer browsers need way more RAM than the paltry 1GB available here(907MB really excluding VRAM). Anyway so using SD Card was quite miserable. But thankfully the task for which I dug out the Raspberry Pi from hibernation, was soon done. Let me talk a bit about the task. I have some R&D work where I wanted to compile a set of libraries from our current product. And extend them using Raspberry Pi hardware. Anyway the first phase was configuring the Raspberry Pi toolchain and then compile the existing code. Thankfully a guy named abhiTronix on github had some readymade toolchain versions and a script for manually building the toolchain. Since I ...