Re: sheeveplug u-boot environment

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

On Jan 5, 2016, at 12:17 PM, Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> wrote:

> On 2016-01-05, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> On Jan 5, 2016, at 11:16 AM, Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> The only thing I see that looks like a warning is a mention of it not
>>> using “generic board”.
>> 
>> It turns out that this may, in fact, be relevant.  Googling for
>> “README.generic-board” gives
>> 
>>    https://github.com/dsd/u-boot/blob/master/doc/README.generic-board
>> 
>> Which discusses an attempt to consolidate default environment handling
>> for all the various boards supported by u-boot.  I don’t know enough
>> about the internals of u-boot to tell if it means I should update to a
>> newer version of u-boot, or, contrariwise, if doing so would be
>> disastrous because future version may not support the SheevaPlug…
> 
> Well, I would like to know if the newer versions in Debian are or aren't
> working, if you'd be willing to try. They do still build in 2016.01~rc3,
> so newer versions probably have converted over to generic-board (or just
> haven't been removed yet).
> 
> There are a couple bugs reported against u-boot which may be relevent:
> 
>  https://bugs.debian.org/781874
>  https://bugs.debian.org/782293
> 
> I don't recall if the requested patches got into mainline u-boot, and I
> haven't included them as patches in the debian u-boot packages.

Which version/package would you like me to test?  I see the following versions available:

Package: u-boot
Version: 2015.10+dfsg1-4
Archive: testing and unstable

Package: u-boot
Version: 2014.10+dfsg1-5
Archive: stable

Package: u-boot-tools
Version: 2015.10+dfsg1-4
Archive: testing and unstable

Package: u-boot-tools
Version: 2014.10+dfsg1-5
Archive: stable

I’ll take a look at those bugs later tonight.

Enjoy!
Rick