Re: U-Boot, d-i and selecting the console device

[Jens Thiele <karme@karme.de>]

sorry, for digging out that old thread, but i never got an answer to
this one.

I think you are at debconf - maybe we could meet there?

Jens Thiele <karme@karme.de> writes:

> Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Ah, so the configuration happens via specific build-time config
>> options and not via the u-boot environment.  In that case,
>> building additional variants would of course work rather easily
>> by defining additional targets, but we would end up with a really
>> large number of possible combinations: each of the 7 currently
>> supported Olimex boards with LCD option in a non-LCD, 7-inch-LCD
>> and 10-inch-LCD variant
>
> looks like there are even some more:
> https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/LCD/
> 4.3, 7, 10, 15.6, 15.6FHD
>
> so maybe
> 7 * 6 * 2 = 84
>
>> , the two Lemaker boards in a non-LCD,
>> 3.5-inch-LCD, 5-inch-LCD and 7-inch-LCD variant (and possibly
>> even more if the TS- and non-TS versions should require different
>> display parameters), plus any other boards with LCD option that
>> we might support in the future.
>>
>> Just for Olimex and Lemaker we would end up with 29(!) variants
>> in total today and I think that this is really too much.
>
> better alternatives?
>
> looking at:
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/
> does it really matter whether there are 15 or 150 ?

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