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Re: armel after Stretch (was: Summary of the ARM ports BoF at DC16)



Paul Wise wrote...

> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 
> > Also, dedicated tiny flash partitions for the kernel and initrd.  I
> > wouldn't be surprised to be find that by the time we want to release
> > buster we can't build a useful kernel that fits into the 2 MB partition
> > that most of these devices seem to have.
> 
> Is it possible to put a bootloader like u-boot in the flash partitions
> and have it load the Linux kernel and initrd from elsewhere?

That how I've been running my Dockstars through all the years. As as
far as I know this worked with the Debian kernels as well (I use my
own kernels for reasons).

    Christoph

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