choonkiatlee/raspbian
Run raspbian on x86_64 using QEMU user mode emulation.
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choonkiatlee/raspbian repository overview
Raspbian Docker QEMU
This is a Docker container that allows you to run raspbian using QEMU user mode emulation. This can be used for a variety of purposes, such as using your own computer to build ARM binaries for the Raspberry Pi. These images have little hard CPU / RAM limits, and can take advantage of a significant portion of the computing power in your underlying hardware! (blog post)
Available Images and Tags
All docker images are available on DockerHub
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
 | Minimal variant of Raspbian. Includes only Python3, git + minbase packages |
 | Raspbian with build-essential and blas installed. This is meant for easily building python packages such as numpy and pytorch for the Raspberry Pi |
 | Raspbian as distributed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The rootfs is extracted from the Raspbian Lite image provided here and modified slightly to run under qemu user mode emulation |
| Latest Build variant of Raspbian |
Pre-Requisites
You need to install the qemu-user-static and binfmt-support packages (Both for building and running the docker containers). On your host system:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install qemu qemu-user-static binfmt-support
Test to make sure that we are successfully running an ARM container on x86
docker run -it --rm choonkiatlee/raspbian:latest uname -a
> Linux 44cb9fc4aa70 5.0.0-1036-azure #38-Ubuntu SMP Sun Mar 22 21:27:21 UTC 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux
Example: Build Pytorch wheels for the Raspberry Pi
Detailed explanation here
$ docker run -it --name pytorch_builder choonkiatlee/raspbian:build
####################### In Docker Container #######################
# Install dependencies
root@b0571199906e:/# apt-get update && apt-get install -y python3-cffi python3-numpy
root@b0571199906e:/# pip3 install cython wheel pyyaml
# Collect Pytorch source
root@b0571199906e:/# git clone --recursive https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch
root@b0571199906e:/# cd pytorch
# Configure pytorch build options
root@b0571199906e:/# export USE_CUDA=0
root@b0571199906e:/# export USE_CUDNN=0
root@b0571199906e:/# export USE_MKLDNN=0
root@b0571199906e:/# export USE_NNPACK=1
root@b0571199906e:/# export USE_QNNPACK=1
root@b0571199906e:/# export USE_DISTRIBUTED=0
root@b0571199906e:/# export BUILD_TEST=0
root@b0571199906e:/# export MAX_JOBS=4
# Build Pytorch
root@b0571199906e:/# python3 setup.py bdist_wheel
####################### In Host #######################
# Collect wheels from the docker container
docker cp pytorch_builder:/pytorch/dist/. .
Example: Build Numpy wheels for the Raspberry Pi
$ docker run -it --name numpy_builder choonkiatlee/raspbian:build
####################### In Docker Container #######################
# Install dependencies
root@b0571199906e:/# apt-get update && apt-get install gfortran
root@b0571199906e:/# pip3 install cython wheel
# Collect numpy source
root@b0571199906e:/# git clone https://github.com/numpy/numpy.git
root@b0571199906e:/# cd numpy
# Build Numpy
root@b0571199906e:/# python3 setup.py build -j 4 bdist_wheel
root@b0571199906e:/# exit
####################### In Host #######################
# Collect wheels from the docker container
docker cp numpy_builder:/numpy/dist/. .
Build
The building process is slightly different for the build/slim images and the faithful image.
- Building the build/slim images
We build these images directly using qemu-debootstrap.
- Make sure that the qemu-user-static and binfmt-support packages have been installed (See Pre-requisites).
Build:
docker build -f buster_build/Dockerfile .
docker build -f buster_slim/Dockerfile .
- Building the faithful image
We use the Raspbian Lite image provided here and modify it slightly to run under qemu user mode emulation.
cd buster_faithful
bash build_buster_faithful.sh
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