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Bug#735092: flash-kernel: add Raspberry Pi support



On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 18:34 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote:
> Package: flash-kernel
> Version: 3.11
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> 
> The attached patch adds Raspberry Pi support to flash-kernel.
> It is based on current flash-kernel git (as of
> 7f52719ab0a607b89555baffd1cc8c14207c0f8f).
> 
> It is available for merging in the "rpi-support-rebased" branch at
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/merker/flash-kernel.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/rpi-support-rebased

> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
[...]
> +* Rpi-ConfigTxt-Path: (optional) Raspberry Pi firmware configuration pathname.
> +  The Raspberry Pi firmware configuration is stored in a text file on the
> +  first (FAT formatted) partition of the SD card in the system and 
> +  contains settings like kernel file name, video mode, memory split 
> +  between CPU and GPU, overclocking parameters, etc. Rpi-ConfigTxt-Path
> +  contains the full path to this file (default value: /boot/config.txt).
> +
[...]

So the boot partition is mounted at /boot?  Doesn't that make it
impossible to install packaged kernels (as dpkg needs to create hard
links)?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Quantity is no substitute for quality, but it's the only one we've got.

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