Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

[Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com>]

Dear Rick,

Thanks for your interest in GNU/screen support for D-I activity!

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:17 PM, Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> wrote:
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> On Apr 24, 2016, at 9:00 AM, Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> - ask users of all ARCHs related to check whether the GNU/screen is
>> working well under d-i environment. Maybe need to add a wiki to track
>> things efficiently.
>>
>> What do you think of my plan?
>> Any suggestion is appreciated. Thank you!
>
> I’m willing to test on a few architectures: Macintosh powerpc-32bit and powerpc-64bit, Cubox-i (armhf), Sheevaplug (armel), OpenRC (armel).
>
> If you want me to test any of those, I’ll need some info:
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> 1) What is this change supposed to accomplish?  Do you have a canonical use-case I can attempt to model?
> 2) What kinds of test do you want me to perform?  And what results are you expecting?

Actually, it's in "call for review" status, instead of "call for
testing", because there's no built images ready yet.
Of course you can build everything yourself, but it may take 1-2 hours
for one ARCH, which I think it's too long.

I called for review because I want to confirm that those changes are necessary.

For example, I know for it's necessary to have GNU/screen support for
armel/armhf/arm64 platform; howover, for i386/amd64 PC, it usually
have CRT/LCD and physical keyboard attached, so it's easily to switch
console by Alt-F1 ~ F4 during debian installing.So for i386/amd64
netboot targets, GNU/screen support is considered unnecessary.
I want to know this kind of situation for other ARCHs.

You mentioned Macintosh powerpc -32/-64, I think it's the same
situation like i386/amd64 from point of view of GNU/screen support.
They're unlikely needed.

For other arm devices you have, I guess it's necessary.
And I'll inform you when the testing images are ready, with instructions. :-D

Thank you!
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Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo
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