On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 19:24:32 -0700 Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote: > I've been playing with this €40 board at DebConf, and had no trouble > getting Debian working using a stock kernel (from experimental). Since > it boots from a microsd card, it can't be bricked and should be quite > easy to support in d-i (using a hd-media image). > > The only blocker is that it needs the non-mainline u-boot from > https://linux-sunxi.org/U-Boot > This u-boot is needed for many other boards and would be good to get > into the archive somehow. > > https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Allwinner/A10-OLinuXino-LIME > https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A10/A10-OLinuXino-LIME/open-source-hardware u-boot:armhf includes a variety of images for boards like this (the Cubieboard is A10, Cubietruck is A20). Those files currently need to use dd onto the SD card. I'm looking at how vmdebootstrap could be used to create images including u-boot support for boards like this. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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