Re: u-boot images for OpenRD
Hello Vagrant,
On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 12:14:55 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian
<vagrant@debian.org> wrote:
> On 2016-01-11, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 21:39:13 +0100, Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> wrote:
> >> Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> writes:
> >> > * Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net> [2016-01-01 13:58]:
> ...
> >> > I see that you've re-introduced OpenRD support upstream, including
> >> > support for OpenRD-Base and OpenRD-Client.
> >
> > Yes, I have -- and I fixed the size issue by introducing Thumb-1
> > support and switching the Open-RD builds to Thumb-1 so that their size
> > would fall back below the limit.
>
> Thanks for that. I just did a quick test build with openrd_base and
> openrd_ultimate, and they at least build with 2016.01-rc4, so I could
> consider enabling them again...
>
> I do recall there were some patches for openrd adding MMC support, that
> weren't upstreamed yet. I don't know if they ever got mainlined:
>
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/u-boot.git/tree/debian/patches/openrd-mmc.diff?id=3c780c57d52fe72a619ffcb0ad80c8245f0a90bc
>
>
> >> > Maybe you can help
> >> > with getting OpenRD u-boot images back into Debian.
> >
> > I would be delighted to. What do you need me to do exactly?
>
> It isn't perfect, but for the u-boot packages in Debian, we try to get
> testers listed for each board:
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/U-boot
>
> That gives us a go-to person when board-specific problems arise, and
> ideally they also test new versions when uploaded.
Alright. I have subscribed to PTS and set the 'upload-source' keyword
for the 'u-boot package'.
Is there anything else I should do (beside actually testing the uploaded
source when I receive a notification from PTS, of course)?
> >> > Rick Thomas has an OpenRD-Base and is keen to test it. Philip Hands
> >> > may have a OpenRD-Ultimate somewhere. (It seems Rick has an
> >> > Ultimate, too.)
> >>
> >> I do have an OpenRD-Ultimate, and I'm happy and interested to ensure
> >> that Debian continues to work on it, so if you want me to test things,
> >> just tell me what.
>
> Since they're building again in mainline, and we've got a few people
> interested in them, if someone can go through the trouble to file a
> wishlist bug on u-boot asking to enable them (and list themselves as a
> tester), I'll happily re-enable them on the next upload.
I'm not familiar at all with the Debian bug reporting system, so I'll
gladly defer to anyone with any (more) experience (than I have).
> live well,
> vagrant
Amicalement,
--
Albert.
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