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Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)



Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> writes:

Hi,

> On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 18:48 +0100, luke.leighton wrote:
>> > But the obvious answer here is to get support for your device into the
>> > appropriate Debian kernel flavour and then integrated into the standard
>> > d-i images. If there is upstream support then this ought to be more or
>> > less trivial.
>> 
>>  yeees.. that would be good.  what's the procedure there?  someone's
>> already built one:
>>  http://dl.linux-sunxi.org/users/niall/debian/
>
> If you can identify which config options need to be enabled for a v3.9
> kernel (which I think is due to hit Sid soon) then a wishlist bug would
> do the job. Likewise if there are some backports required etc you could
> request them in the same bug.
>
> Looks like CONFIG_ARCH_SUNXI is part of the multi_v7_defconfig upstream,
> which suggests it would be a candidate for being enabled in the new mp
> (multiplatform) kernel flavour.

It's enabled in my local 3.9 armmp work [1] but allwinner a10 support in
mainline resume to soc/ram and watchdog support (watchdog not in 3.9) so
all you can do is booting a ramdisk and connect on the serial port to 'use' it. 

Arnaud

[1] will be committed soon. I'm making some more testing before
committing it.


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