Re: network-console on armhf

[Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org>]

On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 02:41:12PM -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote:

> 2) Kernel/ramdisk and uImages
> 
> At the moment, armhf requires users to append the DTB and generate an
> uImage.  Obviously, the same approach would work for these NAS devices
> but I'd like to make it as easy for users as possible.  So I was
> thinking of generating uImage/uInitrd files as part of the d-i
> process.  But if I do it for these NAS devices, you could argue we
> should do it for all devices and that would be a lot of images.  So,
> again, I wanted to hear what people think.

For a large part of the supported armhf devices, appending the dtb to the
kernel and generating uImages isn't necessary because they have a modern
enough u-boot that is able to directly boot zImages, initrds and separate
dtbs ("bootz" command).

Regards,
Karsten
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