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Readme additions for Windows
Need to make sure symlinks are enabled. Need to run the installer once for rpiboot drivers.
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Clone this repository on your Pi or other Linux machine.
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Make sure that the system date is set correctly, otherwise Git may produce an error.
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* This git repository uses symlinks. For Windows builds clone the repository under Cygwin.
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* This git repository uses symlinks. For Windows builds clone the repository under Cygwin and make sure symlinks are enabled. `git config --get core.symlinks` should return true. You can enable symlinks by passing `-c core.symlinks=true` to the "clone" command or enable them globally with `git config --global core.symlinks true`.
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* On Windows make sure you have run the rpiboot driver installer once, see `usbboot\win32\rpiboot_setup`
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* Instead of duplicating the EEPROM binaries and tools the rpi-eeprom repository
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is included as a [git submodule](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules)
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