Hello Please excuse the newbie question, I have following the list for a bit and doing a lot of reading
I have signed up to purchase one of the Via APC boards ( supposed to be delivered in July according to the email I got from Via) have been looking around and have not yet seen a port of Debian for the Wondermedia WM8750 I have come across a couple of ports for the WM8650 , the main differences it seems is the 8750 is based on the ARM1176JZF while the 8650 is based on the ARM926EJ-S the rest of the block diagrams of the 8750 and 8650 look quite similar my question's are and I assume that it depends on what boot roms on the APC will I be able to boot a 8650 image on the 8750 ? and have i missed a 8750 port any where ? thanks again and sorry for the newbie question regards Bruce G On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Marek Vasut <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Martin Michlmayr, > >> * [email protected] <[email protected]> [2012-06-12 11:11]: >> > Debian should be possible on here, no? >> >> It's possible to run Debian armel on this hardware. >> >> > Would any of the armel installers work on here do you think or would >> > I have to start from scratch? >> >> The installer won't work. ARM is not like x86 where one >> kernel/installer will work on the majority of PCs. > > Unless you do DT. And if you use mainline kernel, that's the way to go ... > >> On ARM, you need a >> kernel for each CPU/SoC platform and you have to add support in the >> installer for each platform and for each device. >> >> Debian doesn't offer a kernel for the PXA168 and neither do we have >> support in the installer. >> >> You basically have three options: >> >> a) Generate a Debian kernel package for PXA168 and adapt the installer >> so it will use your custom repo. >> >> b) Use debootstrap to generate a Debian base system, build your own >> kernel and offer that to download for users. >> >> c) Add a PXA168 kernel to Debian and add support in Debian. I don't >> know how much interest there's in PXA168 though. > > Best regards, > Marek Vasut > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > -- I’d rather live in a world full of eccentric thinkers than one full of unthinking consumers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAHrGVieA0=rv5l24v6ths_gncxpc8rmav5oitvjezw4h801...@mail.gmail.com
