On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 01:44 +0200, Jean-Christian de Rivaz wrote: > Le 07. 10. 16 à 00:30, Karsten Merker a écrit : > > > So the boot order might not be problematic on the Orange Pi Plus, but > > it can definitely be problematic on A64-based systems and it might > > possibly be problematic on other H3-based boards. > > > Did you realize that SD card and eMMC uses both exactly the same > signaling and controller on all processors, not only on the Allwinner > family ? This is not true. There are many signalling modes for SD and eMMC, few of which work for both of them. As a result there are some controllers that only support one or the other (e.g. in R-Car SoCs). > If a board designer is stupid enough to connect the eMMC > instead of the SD card on the controller looked first by the on chip > ROM, then it's not an argument to not support all the others boards that > did it the right way. I can agree with that. > Stupid boards need stupid recovery procedure anyway, regardless of the > operating system. This is not a Debian problem. Or least Debian should > not try to officially support broken boards. [...] Just as all software is buggy, all hardware is buggy. So yes, we should try to support broken boards, so far as we can. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Every program is either trivial or else contains at least one bug
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