[SGVLUG] Raspberry Pi 50% Performance Boost

[James McDuffie]

You probably do not have to reflash. Looking at the latest wheezy image 
from raspberrypi.org I see that /etc/apt/sources.list has:

deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib 
non-free rpi

If your already using a wheezy based image you could make your 
sources.list consistent with that and then try the apt-get dist-update 
route. If anything your probably just missing the "contrib" and "rpi" 
package locations.

I was using a Raspbian image from before the official raspberrypi.org 
one and doing this did not blow up my Pi. Yet.

Clicking through from the blog post I sent earlier:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=17788&p=176847

You can see instructions on how to update the firmware:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install raspberrypi* raspi-config


On 09/19/2012 08:16 PM, Matthew Campbell wrote:
> Oooh, on further reading I want that update.  My WiFi dongles aren't
> happy with the August kernel (goes into a tight kernel loop in the USB
> driver).  I guess I'm going to have to re-flash my OS image with
> September's code drop and try again.
>
> Matt
>
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Matthew Campbell <dvdmatt at gmail.com
> <mailto:dvdmatt at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Urm.  Nice, but the command produced:
>     The following packages have been kept back:
>        alsa-base
>     0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
>
>     Either I already had the update from August or there is another
>     dependency.  As this post is dated today this does not compute.
>
>     Matt
>
>     On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 2:22 PM, James McDuffie
>     <mcduffie at pitfall.org <mailto:mcduffie at pitfall.org>> wrote:
>
>         If you have a Raspberry Pi and you are using the wheezy image
>         from their website, you can now get a 50% speed increase just by
>         running apt-get upgrade.
>
>         "Introducing turbo mode: up to 50% more performance for free"
>         http://www.raspberrypi.org/__archives/2008
>         <http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2008>
>
>
>