Hi Ian, sorry for the delayed response.
On Wednesday 23 July 2014 10:43:37 you wrote: > Hi Rainer, > Thanks for your reply. Your comments make sense to me so I'll give them a > go. My aim was to get a solid Debian installation which was easy to > maintain. Similar here. > Debian jessie could likely go final around December and > predictions are the jessie kernel will be 3.16. My hope is full support for > the Cubox hardware is mainlined into the 3.16 by then - a year after I > purchased the device. I am not a kernel expert, but I have not seen significant work going into the 3.16 kernel for imx6. If you need video or wireless, I recommend to use either the 3.0.x or the 3.10.x kernel from solid-run. Be aware that the 3.10.x kernel has some bugs, e.g. https://github.com/rabeeh/android-imx6-kitkat/issues/3 I have not done that myself yet, though. There are rumors that there is work ongoing to port the patches to a more recent kernel. I hope this helps then getting the patches mainlined. > Setting up a cubox has been a lot harder than I > imagined and I've spent a lot of time on it so I'm really happy with your > docs. Thanks, I was hoping that they are useful for some people and indeed quite a few people seem to read my notes. > > I'll have more feedback for you soon. Regarding your SD card setup. I note > you started the first partition around 8M instead of 2M. Was this to future > proof? That was how my SD card was partitioned when I bought it. I thought that is done, because there is an 8 kB erase block size, it is a good idea to stick with 8kB blocks. Also the boundary between swap and root partition is on an 8 kB boundary. > The size of your swap partition choice was unclear when I was > following. Would you consider adding a note on this and use human readable > fdisk partition values like +100M etc? Thanks, I will add the note. > Are you happy with your cubox running kernel 3.14 from the jessie distro? I am running 3.15 (and realize that now 3.16 is in experimental): rd@home:~$ uname -a Linux home 3.15-trunk-armmp #1 SMP Debian 3.15.5-1~exp1 (2014-07-10) armv7l GNU/Linux rd@home:~$ apt-cache policy linux-image-3.15-trunk-armmp linux-image-3.15-trunk-armmp: Installed: 3.15.5-1~exp1 Candidate: 3.15.5-1~exp1 Version table: *** 3.15.5-1~exp1 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status rd@home:~$ apt-cache search linux-image linux-headers-3.14-2-armmp - Header files for Linux 3.14-2-armmp linux-headers-3.14-2-armmp-lpae - Header files for Linux 3.14-2-armmp-lpae linux-image-3.14-2-armmp - Linux 3.14 for ARMv7 multiplatform compatible SoCs linux-image-3.14-2-armmp-lpae - Linux 3.14 for ARMv7 multiplatform compatible SoCs supporting LPAE linux-image-armmp - Linux for ARMv7 multiplatform compatible SoCs (meta- package) linux-image-armmp-lpae - Linux for ARMv7 multiplatform compatible SoCs supporting LPAE (meta-package) linux-headers-3.16-rc6-armmp - Header files for Linux 3.16-rc6-armmp linux-headers-3.16-rc6-armmp-lpae - Header files for Linux 3.16-rc6-armmp-lpae linux-image-3.16-rc6-armmp - Linux 3.16-rc6 for ARMv7 multiplatform compatible SoCs linux-image-3.16-rc6-armmp-lpae - Linux 3.16-rc6 for ARMv7 multiplatform compatible SoCs supporting LPAE linux-image-3.15-trunk-armmp - Linux 3.15 for ARMv7 multiplatform compatible SoCs linux-image-3.14-1-armmp - Linux 3.14 for ARMv7 multiplatform compatible SoCs rd@home:~$ I think quite a number of fixes went into 3.15. > The debian website suggests using enablement patches to get full hardware > support, I looked at the date of the patches and it seem unclear how to > keep the patches up to date with latest updates going happening in Debian > kernel land. I have not tried that either. Rainer > > Ian > > On 21 July 2014 21:07, Rainer Dorsch <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Ian, > > > > thanks for reporting back. > > > > On Sunday 20 July 2014 10:37:42 you wrote: > > > Hi Rainer, > > > I was just following your cubox-i notes at > > > <http://bokomoko.de/~rd/Debian/cubox-i-notes.txt> > > > Very helpful thanks. After following your notes exactly I ran into > > > problems with the deb bootstrap command. > > > I wondered if you had any ideas that could help? > > > Thanks > > > Ian Davidson > > > > > > original command... > > > blackbox:~# qemu-debootstrap --foreign > > > > --include=ntp,ntpdate,less,u-boot,u-boot-tools,flash-kernel,linux-image-3. > > 14> > > > -1-armmp,bash-completion,linux-firmware,fake-hwclock,emacs > > > --exclude=nano > > > --arch=armhf jessie /mnt/tmp > > > http://http.debian.net/debian > > > > > > > > > Problem 1) 'linux-firmware' package did not exist. I changed this to > > > 'firmware-linux-free'. Seemed to be ok. > > > > Better is to use apt-get in a later step and omit all the includes > > altogether. > > > > > Problem 2) initramfs dependancy package did not like to be > > > debootstrapped. > > > > > > > > > #cat /mnt/tmp/debootstrap/debootstrap.log > > > > > > Setting up initramfs-tools (0.115) ... > > > update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) > > > Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.115) ... > > > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.14-1-armmp > > > Warning: root device does not exist > > > Unsupported platform. > > > run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//flash-kernel exited with return > > > code 1 > > > > > > dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure): > > > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit > > > > > > status 1 > > > > > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > > initramfs-tools > > > > That is probably related to FK_MACHINE. > > > > I have an updated version of the notes, which I took some days back, when > > I > > tried to prepare an SD card for the cubox-i2ultra. The should cover your > > issues, but I could not fully test it since the Debian u-boot seems to be > > incompatible with the Cubox-i2ultra, therefore I did not release it so > > far, > > but your feedback tells me, I should distribute the update, even though it > > is > > not tested: > > > > http://bokomoko.de/~rd/Debian/cubox-i-notes-untested.txt > > > > Please let me know if you have any positive of negative feedback. > > > > Thanks, > > Rainer > > > > -- > > Rainer Dorsch > > http://bokomoko.de/ -- Rainer Dorsch http://bokomoko.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/4736467.i2fNXtO2QM@blackbox
