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Bug#716902: flash-kernel: [RFC PATCH] samsung arm chromebook support



On Sun, 2013-07-14 at 19:24 -0700, Shawn wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> wrote:
>         On Sun, 2013-07-14 at 05:35 -0700, Shawn Landden wrote:
>         > I am working on getting the Samsung ARM Chromebook supported
>         by
>         > the Debian installer.
>         >
>         > RFC on this patch, as the vboot on the chromebook does not
>         support initrd
>         
>         The official Debian installer images must install
>         Debian-packaged
>         kernels.  I would oppose introduction of any new kernel
>         flavours that do
>         not use an initrd, and I don't want to see any new ARM
>         flavours in
>         general.
> my patch uses the armmp kernel, but it doesn't boot as it doesn't
> build in enough modules.
> 
> presumably it would only need the ext4 module built in.

Well that's what we do on some MIPS flavours, but Debian is supposed to
support root on various other filesystems, LVM, dm-crypt, ...

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings.

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