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Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node



On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 17:16 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 07:27:54PM +0000, David Power wrote:
> > Hey Guys, I stumbled upon this thread while trying to investigate if
> > debian would work on the calxeda platform. We're one of calxedas partners
> > and have specific customers who would really love to see debian working on
> > ours/calxedas platform.
> > 
> > Can I ask how far your efforts in porting have gone? Is there a wheezy
> > release for highbank that we could test out internally?
> 
> Well I highly doubt that will happen.  Wheezy is released and uses 3.2
> kernel which is certainly too old to work with this new hardware.
> 
> Would http://packages.debian.org/jessie/linux-image-3.9-1-vexpress by
> any chance be a valid kernel image for the highbank?  I see in the git
> logs of Linus's tree that there is a v7 multiplatform config that is
> supposed to cover the highbank, socfpga, mvebu, and vexpress in one
> kernel, so having a vexpress kernel in jessie could be a promising sign
> for the next major release.
[...]

The 'armmp' flavour is the one with a multiplatform configuration.  All
the other armhf kernel flavours will be dropped once it's ready to
replace them.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Knowledge is power.  France is bacon.

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