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Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i



On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 23:34 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote:
> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 09:40:36PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote:
> > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 08:09:26PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2014-05-18 at 19:41 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote:
> > 
> > > > attached is a small patch against flash-kernel to add machine db
> > > > entries for the Cubieboard 1/2 and the Mele A1000.  These three
> > > > are generally supported by the armmp kernel and have SATA
> > > > connectors, i.e. with linux-image-3.14-1-armmp 3.14.4-1 (in
> > > > testing since yesterday) it should be possible to do Debian
> > > > installations on a SATA disk attached to them.
> > > 
> > > Ah, I didn't realise it had migrated, great!
> > > 
> > > flash-kernel still has 4 days to go, I think we should wait for 3.19 to
> > > migrate to testing before uploading any more, so I think we should hold
> > > off on your patch until then if that is OK with you?
> > 
> > Yes, we should wait until 3.19 has migrated.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> flash-kernel 3.19 has migrated to jessie in the meantime, so I guess nothing
> speaks against adding further machines to the db.
> 
> I had limited my first patch to systems with SATA connector (Cubieboard 1/2
> and Mele A1000), as we had no sunxi MMC driver in the Debian kernel at that
> time.  Now (since kernel version 3.15~rc8, currently in experimental) sunxi
> MMC support is available in Debian, so I have added entries for all
> supported sunxi-based systems with MMC/SD slot to the patch.
> 
> - Cubietech Cubieboard
> - Cubietech Cubieboard2
> - LinkSprite pcDuino
> - Mele A1000
> - Miniand Hackberry
> - Olimex A10-OLinuXino-LIME
> - Olimex A10s-Olinuxino Micro
> - Olimex A13-Olinuxino
> - Olimex A13-Olinuxino Micro
> - Olimex A20-Olinuxino Micro
> - PineRiver Mini X-Plus
> - WITS A31 Colombus Evaluation Board

Is this derived from the DTB files present in the kernel package or
something else? (Just curious)

> If there are no objections, I'll commit the patch to the flash-kernel
> master branch.

Go ahead!

Ian.


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