Re: Updating the installation guide, arm platform support
On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 02:56 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Kernels and initramfses will be in /boot, as for most Linux
> distributions. However, we currently install DTBs in
> /usr/lib/<package-name>. Maybe it would be helpful to copy the latest
> applicable DTB into /boot, on some machines.
flash-kernel does this for some systems, but you are right that we
should consider having the kernel packages do it.
/usr/lib/linux-image-3.10-0.bpo.2-armmp/ is 860K, which I think is
probably a bit too large to just copy the whole lot over.
So the problem is how to determine which dtb is needed. The most obvious
solution would be to subsume a bunch of f-k functionality into the
kernel packages and offer a debconf prompt for systems which the db
doesn't know about.
Ian.
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