Bug#773467: efikamx: linux-image-3.2.0-4-mx5 is not upgraded to linux-image-armmp (and that one doesn't work)
Hi,
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 07:34:27PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-12-18 at 20:20 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > 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.
Note to self: add information from https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
(e.g. https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2014/20141005 to release notes.)
That would fix this bug, and more.
Bye,
Joost
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