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Re: Cubieboard5 with debian



On 2016-06-04, GALAMBOS Daniel wrote:
> I'm using cubie2 with Jessie for a while, it works nicely.  However on
> the newest cubieboard (cubie5/cubietruck plus) I could not managed to
> install Debian.
>
>  - Jessie's u-boot doesn't support this board, experimental has the
> code, but (at the time i tried last month) wasn't installed.

FWIW, I tested Cubietruck_plus with u-boot 2016.05 and enabled in u-boot
git a week or two ago, but haven't yet uploaded.


> Rebuilt the
> package after adding one line to the debian/targets file, so I got the
> u-boot image.
>  - compiled the dts file from device-rebasing
>  - copied the kernel, initrd bootscript from hd-media
>  - attached serial console.
>
> Result: after "Starting debian kernel" u-boot message no further output.
> Changing to Stretch kernel, the debian installer starts, asks language,
> keyboard layout, then starts looking for the iso image, this is where
> things goes wrong. It doesn't matter if I plug it in on an USB stick, or
> copy to the SD card,  the installer doesn't finds it. Then I chose to
> drop me to shell.  When i plug in the USB stick, no new dmesg line.
> blkid returns empty response. No /dev/sd* nor /dev/mmcblk* found.
>
> Has anybody got tips to make it work?

Mainline linux is missing drivers for notable hardware for the A83T,
such as USB, MMC, and ethernet. There seems to be active work on it in
the linux-sunxi community, but it will be a while before it makes it
into Debian.

If patches land in mainline linux (or maybe linux-next), sometimes the
debian kernel maintainers are willing to accept patches backporting to
sid or experimental, but generally not from third-party repositories.

I'll be keeping an eye on the status in linux mainline, and likely
propose updates to the linux packages when it seems more feasible...


live well,
  vagrant

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