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 19:13 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Package: src:linux,upgrade-reports
> Version: 3.16.7-ckt2-1
> Severity: important
>
> Dear maintainers,
>
> I've just upgraded my Genesi EfikaMX nettop from wheezy to jessie and the only
> package which wasn't upgraded was linux-image-3.2.0-4-mx5, so I had to install
> linux-image-armmp manually... I'm not really sure how to solve this sensibly,
> suggesting that linux-image-armmp should provide linux-image-3.2.0-4-mx5 seems
> strange.
In the past we've done that via the metapackages, I thought via
linux-latest, but I can't see any evidence of that right now, so maybe
I'm confused..
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]
> It didn't come back, will need to attach a serial console and see if I see
> anything useful there...
>From what I gather this is not unexpected. I'm not sure why this
platform was removed upstream, but I expect lack of anyone willing to
maintain it and/or move it over to device tree might have been part of
it.
Around the time of the removal from the installer I did have a look
around for any plausible activity on that front and IIRC I didn't find
anything.
Sorry, I expect none of this was what you wanted to hear :-(
Ian.
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commit c7c29b3aeb318b9efe3035cacf42800dfe2970f5
Author: Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
Date: Wed Aug 1 12:49:30 2012 -0500
ARM: efikamx: remove Genesi Efika MX platform files from the tree
Delete the files that can no longer be built.
Signed-off-by: Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
commit 56a12b3984a368b1feab41a77f58fe81cc6771bf
Author: Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
Date: Wed Aug 1 12:49:29 2012 -0500
ARM: efikamx: remove Genesi Efika MX from the i.MX v6/v7 defconfig
No need to have Efika MX listed in the defconfig if it can't be built.
Signed-off-by: Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
commit f60c99e22cae4d8761c86967a14e4621322c057e
Author: Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
Date: Wed Aug 1 12:49:28 2012 -0500
ARM: efikamx: remove support for Genesi Efika MX from the build
Disable building for Efika MX boards by not having any configuration or
object file definitions.
Signed-off-by: Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2014/04/msg00279.html
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