On Sunday 18 February 2018 17:43:11 Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2018-02-18, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 17 February 2018 19:22:06 Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > >> On 2018-02-17, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > >> > Am Sonntag, 11. Februar 2018, 22:24:51 CET schrieb Rainer Dorsch: > >> >> Am Sonntag, 11. Februar 2018, 13:20:07 CET schrieb Vagrant Cascadian: > >> >> > On 2018-02-11, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > ... > > > Thank you very very much, this is probably the post, a howto, that > > I've been looking for, for months. > > Glad it was helpful. > > > Now my problem is that the db for flash-kernel is 2 or 3 years out > > of date and contains no mention of either the pi-3b, > > Please report bugs against flash-kernel, but please first check > against current versions of flash-kernel. There's support for > raspberry pi 2b and and 3b in the current version of flash-kernel. > 2b is listed, but not the 3b in an uptodate yesterday stretch install.
> You can sometimes grab the relevent stanzas from newer versions and > use them on the old version of flash-kernel by adding them to > /etc/flash-kernel/db: I'd imagine so. > > Machine: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B > Kernel-Flavors: arm64 armmp armmp-lpae > DTB-Id: bcm2837-rpi-3-b.dtb > U-Boot-Script-Name: bootscr.uboot-generic > Required-Packages: u-boot-tools > Boot-Script-Path: /boot/boot.scr > > > I am using the pi 2b with the version of linux and flash-kernel from > Debian stretch. Raspbian's kernel likely has the legacy device-tree > names and you might have to adjust flash-kernel configuration for > that. Raspbian also doesn't typically use u-boot for a bootloader, and > flash-kernel doesn't do anything to configure booting from the default > boot firmware. The machine in question is a pair of 4Gb rock64's. > > nor the pine offering called the rock64. > > There isn't support for the rock64 in mainline u-boot, and I'm not > sure how good the linux kernel support is. The existing kernel in an ayufan release is solid, but I need to replace it with a local build, on the rockchip, v4.14.15-rt13 kernel. > So I'm not sure it makes > sense to add a flash-kernel entry for it until it's better supported > in mainline linux and u-boot; Debian doesn't usually add support that > isn't present in mainline, as long-term maintenance impractical. > > I've got one, so I'll keep an eye on it and try to enable support in > Debian as it becomes available. > > > And quite likely, u-boot-tools is also dated. > > I'm not sure what you're referring to here, but there's u-boot 2018.01 > in experimental, and 2017.11 in sid/buster. There's a 2018.03-rc1 that > I haven't yet uploaded. Stretch has the most recent u-boot version at > the time of stretch freeze, which was in late 2016, so it only has > 2016.11. But that's how stable releases work; major new versions of > software does not typically get added to a stable release. What do I use for a deb entry in sources.list.d to access this later stuffs? > > > Where can I report that? > > In Debian, it's often good to report a bug through the Debian Bug > Tracking System: > > https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting > I'll see about this after I fix dinner for us. Thank you. > > live well, > vagrant -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
