Hello, 2010/11/29 Sebastian Reichel <[email protected]>: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 06:17:59PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: >> * Sebastian Reichel <[email protected]> [2010-11-23 09:42]:
>> However, personally I'd like to see explicit support for some OMAP >> devices in Debian installer, otherwise I don't see a lot of value >> in providing a kernel. (Those who don't need d-i can probably also >> compile their own kernel or take a kernel image from an external >> web site). > I do not know much about d-i internals, but there was a Google > Summer of Code project this year, which was supposed to add Openmoko > Freerunner support to d-i. So it should be that much work to add > Nokia N900 support? Apart from this it should be easy to add support > for the Beagleboard or Pandaboard, since they very similar to a > normal PC, but I don't own them ;) Pandaboard (OMAP4) and BeagleBoard (OMAP3) based devices boot off SD/MMC card, in the case of Pandaboard it only boots off SD/MMC (no MTD device available). debian-installer does not have support for MTD devices due to parted not supporting it (#487738), but some improvements have been done and bitrot [0]. So, basically, what debian-installer needs to add to support such devices (taking in account debian-installer runs native)? Maybe a cross installer which puts together a kernel + rootfs in a cross way is more than enough. I am currently cooking out one for my purposes (#604834), but it is not ready yet. In anycase, if anyone takes the lead to add support for OMAP into d-i and kernel, I am available to help and test it out. Best regards [0] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/MTD -- Héctor Orón "Our Sun unleashes tremendous flares expelling hot gas into the Solar System, which one day will disconnect us." -- Day DVB-T stop working nicely Video flare: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100510.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
