On 2017-09-12, Andreas Tille wrote: > I'm not (yet) subscribed to this list since I just want to know first > whether this is the right list. I've recently bought a pinebook[1] > and my first surprise was that I can not simply use Debian installer > images. I would say that it's a reasonable place to discuss enabling support for the pinebook in Debian... > However I have not seen any way to upgrade the kernel which is at > version 3.10 and *not* installed from kernel-image package but some > manually installed /boot/kernel file. There isn't really sufficient supportin mainline linux yet to run the pinebook, so there isn't full out-of-the-box support for Debian yet. There's some hope for buster... I've built a 4.13-rcX for the pinebook using patches applied to debian's kernel packaging from: https://github.com/Icenowy/linux/tree/sunxi64-4.13-rc6 But it didn't have working video, usb or wifi. So not particularly useful yet! > In short: Is this the right list for this kind of questions or should > I rather ask this on pine64 forum. I think until support is significantly improved in mainline linux (and therefore Debian's linux kernel packages), it would be most appropriate to keep most questions on the pine64 forums... but I am only one voice; perhaps opinions on the matter differ. > The only thing I might provide would be a libump > package[2] since this is a free precondition for the non-free graphics > driver[3] which I needed to rebuild to get back my graphics screen under > stretch. ... > [2] https://github.com/libv/libump > [3] https://github.com/ssvb/xf86-video-fbturbo Some years ago I put in an RFP for fbturbo, but no bites so far: https://bugs.debian.org/760025 live well, vagrant
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