On 2015-04-15, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org> (2015-04-15): >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 06:42:57PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> > I've tested that it boots the armhf daily hd-media installer and >> > boots an installed system. I could upload a new version of u-boot if >> > it's deemed worth it; otherwise we'll just need more complicated >> > instructions for manually loading the installer on d-i. FWIW, The >> > netboot media via tftp works without any changes. ... >> As the deadline for d-i-relevant changes is Friday, the question >> is what to do now. AFAICS due to the necessity to change the BBB >> boot script in flash-kernel when the patch is applied to u-boot, >> both flash-kernel and u-boot would have to enter Jessie in >> lockstep. As there is not enough time for regular migration to >> Jessie, the release team would have to urgent both packages in >> addition to an unblock to keep the deadline. The involved DDs >> are in vastly different timezones, which makes all this even more >> problematic. As stated above, I probably won't be able to take >> care of flash-kernel in time, so unless Ian would like to handle >> that, I do not see a a realistic chance to get this solved for >> Jessie. ... > So I've been thinking about this for a while and I'm not too happy about > possibly rushing these changes at this point. What could be considered > instead is having these changes staged into unstable, let them migrate > to testing/stretch when the freeze is lifted, and possibly backport them > in to the jessie first point release. A workaround can be documented in > the D-I Jessie RC3 errata. Seems like we've missed the chance to resolve this for Jessie's first point release, but perhaps we can make it for the second point release? I don't see anything mentioned in the errata yet: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer/#errata Not sure what the process is to update that, but I'd be happy to work on some text for it. Flash-kernel in unstable has the needed changes and u-boot in unstable has the needed changes, although I think it would be better to go with the smaller patch I had proposed earlier rather than backporting the entire distro_bootcmd stack... Now that USB support is working on the BBB with the kernel in jessie-proposed-updates(Yay!), BeagleBone Black is a more attractive platform for running Debian on, so it would be nice to get d-i support working out of the box... live well, vagrant
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