Re: Pine64 RockPro64 Support, image generation help offer

[Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl>]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 08:56:39PM +0200, Alexandre GRIVEAUX wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> After some try (including checking the right image, the sdcard and the
> reader), i've managed to boot the Pine64 RockPro64 by doing:
> 
> - Getting firmware and partition of daily images for RockPro64 and
> assembling it to complete_image.img
> 
> - Copy it with dd on sdcard and plug it on board and powering the board.
> 
> - Using installer normally but instead of using the whole disk I
> formated the fat32 partition to ext4 and resized to the end of sdcard
> 
> (to avoiding erasing bootloader at beginning sdcard)
> 
> 
> - Used chroot on another machine to install flash-kernel and adding:
> 'Pine64 RockPro64' to /etc/flash-kernel/machine and:
> 
>   https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/flash-kernel/-/merge_requests/21/diffs
> 
> To /etc/flash-kernel/db
> 
> 
> - Using programs on this order:
> 
> update-initramfs -u
> 
> flash-kernel
> 
> 
> After a reboot the board is now working !
> 
> 
> Now i would like to write u-boot on SPI flash instead of using sdcard to
> boot and facilitate me if i need to reinstalling Debian on it.
> 
> 
> How i can help to bring those features on mainling sdcard images ?
} How i can help to bring those features on mainline sdcard images ?

I think that question should be read as

  Which projectteam builds mainline SDcard images
  and how to contact them for offering help?


I don't know
and I don't know where to ask if it remains silent here.

So lets see what information comes along.


> 
> Thanks
> 

Thank YOU


Groeten
Geert Stappers
-- 
Silence is hard to parse