Hello Aurélien, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> (19/10/2012): > I have recently realized that the vexpress flavour of the armhf > kernel has been added without providing the corresponding > udebs. Hence it means that we support this platform (I guess mainly > because it's a QEMU emulated board) at the kernel level, but we > don't provide any way to install it. > > The patch below fixes this issue, and as you can see it is almost > trivial. It's based on the mx5 flavour, with some minor tweaks at > the USB level (this platform don't provide USB support) and at the > NIC level (to provide a udeb containing the default NIC). Then it > should be quite easy to add debian-installer support for this > flavour. > > Is such a patch acceptable, despite the freeze? If yes please tell > me when it can be committed. sorry for the huge lag, and thanks for the prod. From a d-i point of view, this is more than welcome. I haven't reviewed the patch itself yet, but you can commit it right now, as d-i wheezy beta 4 has just been released. Just remember to keep us posted if some issues are detected in the upcoming days, so that we don't release d-i wheezy rc1 with a buggy vexpress support. ;-) Mraw, KiBi.
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