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Bug#767052: D-I : Sheevaplug : could not determine kernel flavour



Hi Ian,

On 28/10/2014 20:38, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 04:08 +0100, drEagle wrote:
>> The kernel flavour is not detected.
>> Sheevaplug now use a dtb file and no kernel are installed into the target system.
> 
> A dtb shouldn't be necessary for the Sheevaplug, I don't think. Did you
> manually supply one or did something do that for you? I'm not that
> familiar with how a Sheevaplug is set up to boot by default.

The tests was done using a patched uboot.

> I think that if you install by booting without an fdt (in "board file"
> mode) then everything should just work.

This do not work with latest kernel (d-i for jessie), which require a fdt for sheeva and some others kirkwood as raidsonic or guruplug.

> Alternatively if you want to boot in DTB mode (I don't think there is
> any direct benefit to doing so right now) then you will need to figure
> out an appropriate stanza for the flash-kernel database. Probably this
> will be very similar to the existing non-DTB one, except the Machine
> line should be the contents of /proc/device-tree/model instead
> of /proc/cpuinfo:hardware and you will probably want a DTB-Id line
> naming the correct DTB file. It's possible you might be able to combine
> the DTB and boardfile entires into one (the "Marvell Armada XP GP Board"
> does this) See flash-kernel's README for more information. You can
> experiment with entries in /etc/flash-kernel/db instead of editing the
> main DB.

Theses tests was done for jessie support.

Before jessie, sheevaplugs were support by the debian kernel and the debian installer.
Debian installer had also a netconsole and a netboot image which give the choice of the method of installing by ssh.

Is sheevaplugs and derivatives support abandonned by debian ?
I hope not.

Regards,
Gérald

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