Re: Providing (armhf) u-boot images together with d-i images?
On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 10:41 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2015-01-07, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > And therefore aren't they more usefully built along with
> > that iso? Otherwise how do you know how big to make the partition to
> > contain the iso at d-i build time given the varied sizes of .iso and
> > sd-card you can buy?
>
> It would also be nice to have media with the .iso file built-in, but I
> don't think a requirement for it to be useful without that.
Having a second external media isn't very common on the sorts of device
we are talking about, is it?
> I definitely see the case for moving some of the code into debian-cd, or
> another utility.
>
> I've considered making such a utility and shipping it in u-boot-tools,
> but didn't get around to it for jessie. The sd-card offsets in this
> patchset duplicate information in the various u-boot* README.Debian
> files, and it would make sense to move that into a script. This script
> could also generate SD images with a vmlinuz, initrd, bootscript, dtb,
> .iso, etc. and would be useful outside the context of debian-installer.
> Then, if debian-installer, debian-cd, or some other utility wanted to
> use it, then they could depend on u-boot-tools...
That sounds pretty sensible.
Ian.
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