On 2015-05-27, François-Régis wrote: > 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. If it's hard to install using d-i, it'll stay that way, which sounds like a bug worth fixing to me.... :) > That said I'd like to help on documenting. Good. >> 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 ?) It was fixed in linux 3.16.7-ckt11-1 (as well as the 4.x version currently in sid): https://bugs.debian.org/773400 It's currently available in the jessie-proposed-updates repository, and I presume will be released with the stable point release coming up shortly: https://wiki.debian.org/StableProposedUpdates live well, vagrant
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