Bug#773467: efikamx: linux-image-3.2.0-4-mx5 is not upgraded to linux-image-armmp (and that one doesn't work)
On Thu, 2014-12-18 at 20:20 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
> thanks for the fast response!
>
> On Donnerstag, 18. Dezember 2014, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > But. I don't think any modern kernel supports the efika, it was removed
> > from the mainline kernel a while ago (summer 2012 it seems [0]) and was
> > therefore removed from the installer on that basis too[1]
>
> thanks, I was looking for this information (as I saw in the jessie d-i beta1
> release notes that support for efikamx was removed, but I couldn't really find
> out why..) and then I saw this in the linux debian/changelog from 3.11.5-1
> from October 2013:
>
> * [armhf] Remove mx5, omap and vexpress flavours. These are all supported
> by the multiplatform flavour.
>
> That sounded promising enough, so I gave upgrading a try...
Yeah, mx5 general still works (AFAIK), it's just the efika stuff which
has gone.
> > > It didn't come back, will need to attach a serial console and see if I
> > > see anything useful there...
>
> I wonder if I should still bother...
With (AFAIK) no DTB file in existence it'd be something of a miracle if
it worked I'm afraid :-(
> > From what I gather this is not unexpected. I'm not sure why this
> > platform was removed upstream, [...]
> > Sorry, I expect none of this was what you wanted to hear :-(
>
> Indeed, but thanks for explaining!
>
> I'll guess I'll go with owning another brick then ;-)
I did look for non-mainline community/kernel support a while back, but
it might be worth having another look before putting it in the attic.
Ian.
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