I have a Pi 3 B+ that was running Debian 10 (Raspian as it was then called). I've upgraded to the latest Raspberry Pi OS (Debian 12/bookworm). Not that it's important (I think), but I twiddled my 3B+ to boot from USB ages ago. I used the Raspberry Pi Imager to image a fresh USB drive, popped it into my 3B+, powered on, and MAGIC! So now my 3B+ is up and running with Deb 12. As I'm poring over the original USB to find files I need to migrate, I came across /opt/vc -- for the life of me, I cannot remember what it is, where it came from, or what I was using it for. (It's been awhile.) Files therein are ...
Others are not: vcdbg, raspistill, raspivid, tvservice, containers_* et al.
I did some "Googling" on several of the components but didn't find much that made sense to me. So I feel stupid asking this, but can anyone tell me where /opt/vc came from and what all its bits are for? I'd like to recycle the old USB but I don't want to blow away something only to find out it was needed or desired. Thanks!
- containers_datagram_receiver
containers_datagram_sender
containers_dump_pktfile
containers_rtp_decoder
containers_stream_client
containers_stream_server
containers_test
containers_test_bits
containers_test_uri
containers_uri_pipe
dtmerge
dtoverlay
dtoverlay-post
dtoverlay-pre
dtparam
edidparser
mmal_vc_diag
raspistill
raspivid
raspividyuv
raspiyuv
tvservice
vcdbg
vcgencmd
vchiq_test
vcmailbox
vcsmem
Others are not: vcdbg, raspistill, raspivid, tvservice, containers_* et al.
I did some "Googling" on several of the components but didn't find much that made sense to me. So I feel stupid asking this, but can anyone tell me where /opt/vc came from and what all its bits are for? I'd like to recycle the old USB but I don't want to blow away something only to find out it was needed or desired. Thanks!
Statistics: Posted by PiSlicer — Mon Jun 03, 2024 6:36 am