Re: RFS: xburst-tools

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Paul Wise wrote:

> Please remove these prebuilt files from the debian/ directory and
> don't add them to the upstream tarball.
> 
> ./debian/xburst_stage1.bin
> ./debian/xburst_stage2.bin
> ./debian/stage1.bin
[...]
> The README.source indicates that this requires a cross-compiler for
> MIPS in the $PATH. Since we don't have one in Debian yet, your package
> cannot be uploaded as-is. You could however, build and upload from a
> MIPS machine with gcc installed.

This part was my doing, sorry.  It should be possible to build these
on mipsel (and they should probably be split out to an arch-all
package anyway), but that makes it difficult for people without access
to a non-pocket-sized MIPS machine to test the build process.  From

  http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?sortby=architecture&sortorder=asc

I infer that there is not even a mipsel porterbox available to DDs.

Would the cross-compiled version would be a candidate for contrib?

The correct long-term solution, of course, is to get gcc-mips into
Debian.  Anyone with ideas about how to make that happen?

> You include an embedded code copy (or fork) of the Qi bootloader.
> Please remove it and package Qi separately. I wonder if usbboot/ is
> also an embedded code copy.

The source package is based on the upstream xburst-tools repository;
it probably should be split into separate packages for qiboot, xbboot,
usbboot, and so on, since they do not depend at build-time or run-time
on one another.  It is not my impression that these have been split
already.

The piece most people currently use is usbboot (which is based on a
Windows tool from Ingenic).  Earlier versions of the packaging
included just that.

Thanks,
Jonathan