Hi Vagrant, Hi Cyril, Hi all, Le 27/05/2015 20:36, Vagrant Cascadian a écrit : > 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: >> 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. I was not very pushy to make this mentioned in the errata giving the fact that the most popular way to install debian on BBB is to use readymade disk images and not d-i. That said I'd like to help on documenting. > 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... Definitely yes, with flash-kernel, u-boot and kernel having a good coverage of bbb hardware, d-i could be the prefered way to use debian on bbb. (Vagrant:could you give me a pointer on the kernel supporting usb ?) -- François-Régis
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