On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 05:25:57PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Karsten Merker <mer...@debian.org> (2014-09-14): > > U-boot: u-boot 2014.10~rc2+dfsg1-1 from experimental > > [...] > > > Comments: > > - The installation was done in expert mode (debconf priority medium). > > - I selected Sid instead of Jessie as target suite as kernel 3.16 > > (required for installation on MMC) has not yet migrated to Jessie. > > - Partitioning was done using the "guided partitioning" option. > > I see you also need u-boot from experimental; I'm not sure it'll reach > sid + testing in time for the next release. Are you in touch with its > maintainer/do you his short term plans?
[CCing Vagrant Cascadian (Debian u-boot package maintainer) and Ian Campbell (mainline u-boot sunxi platform custodian)] U-Boot v2014.10 is scheduled to be released on Oct 13, 2014. Vagrant is tracking the rc releases in experimental and the plan is to get the final u-boot v2014.10 into unstable as soon as it is released. That is a tight schedule, but I think it is feasible. The mainline u-boot version currently in jessie (2014.07+dfsg1-1) has only very limited sunxi platform support. It works on the Cubietruck, but does not support several other sunxi-based systems for which we have support in d-i, so we are very strongly interested in getting v2014.10 into Jessie. D-i can also work with older u-boot-sunxi versions that are supplied by some board vendors (flash-kernel takes explicit care in the boot scripts it creates to handle this properly), but those older versions do not have the full featureset that mainline u-boot v2014.10 provides. The two major features missing in the vendor-supplied versions are - PSCI support, without which there is no SMP, i.e. the kernel can only initalize the first CPU core - AHCI support, i.e. booting from SATA harddisk is not possible. So using old u-boot-sunxi versions instead of current mainline is technically possible, but from a user point of view really undesireable. Regards, Karsten -- Gem. Par. 28 Abs. 4 Bundesdatenschutzgesetz widerspreche ich der Nutzung sowie der Weitergabe meiner personenbezogenen Daten für Zwecke der Werbung sowie der Markt- oder Meinungsforschung. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
