Re: What to do with d-i on armel?

2024-03-08 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 03-03-2024 9:01 p.m., Cyril Brulebois wrote: Maybe have it marked Not-For-Us on armel, also requesting the binary to be dropped there? And maybe poke the ftp team to have installer-armel/ cleaned up? Those actions sound appropriate to me, but I don't know the inner details well enough

Re: What to do with d-i on armel?

2024-03-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bastian Blank (2024-03-04): > On Sun, Mar 03, 2024 at 09:01:06PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Maybe have it marked Not-For-Us on armel, also requesting the binary to > > be dropped there? And maybe poke the ftp team to have installer-armel/ > > cleaned up? (The “disabling daily builds” part

Re: What to do with d-i on armel?

2024-03-04 Thread Bastian Blank
[ Remove -arm and -release } Hi On Sun, Mar 03, 2024 at 09:01:06PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Maybe have it marked Not-For-Us on armel, also requesting the binary to > be dropped there? And maybe poke the ftp team to have installer-armel/ > cleaned up? (The “disabling daily builds” part

Re: What to do with d-i on armel?

2024-03-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 09:52:14AM +0100, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: > Gianluca Renzi wrote: > > The same here. We never used the d-i but we are using Debian systems > > (kernel and root file system) as daily bases of our line of products > > embedded systems. Hundred of thousands of boards are

Re: What to do with d-i on armel?

2024-03-04 Thread Gerardo Ballabio
Gianluca Renzi wrote: > The same here. We never used the d-i but we are using Debian systems (kernel > and root file system) as daily bases of our line of products embedded > systems. Hundred of thousands of boards are using Debian since Debian Lenny > 5.0. From armel to armhf 32 bit systems. >

Re: What to do with d-i on armel?

2024-03-03 Thread Gianluca Renzi
The same here. We never used the d-i but we are using Debian systems (kernel and root file system) as daily bases of our line of products embedded systems. Hundred of thousands of boards are using Debian since Debian Lenny 5.0. From armel to armhf 32 bit systems. So a drop of the armel and/or

Re: What to do with d-i on armel?

2024-03-03 Thread Martin
On 2024-01-09 22:19, Martin wrote: > On 2024-01-09 19:56, Emanuele Rocca wrote: >> though. Any armel users out there? :-) > > My employer uses Debian on armel, but not d-i :-) I should add: We never used d-i on armel and have our own kernel. Most other stuff is plain Debian, though.

Re: What to do with d-i on armel?

2024-03-03 Thread Ástor Ayllón Lázaro
just another armel-debian user here, running in an old intel es4000 since 2006. On Sun, 3 Mar 2024, 20:31 Christoph Biedl, wrote: > Emanuele Rocca wrote... > > > Any armel users out there? :-) > > Fairly late, but just to avoid the impression there aren't any left: > Yes, here. > > But that's

Re: What to do with d-i on armel?

2024-03-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bastian Blank (2024-01-07): > With Linux 6.6 we dropped the Marvell specific kernel image, as it > was not known to work on any of the available devices. We still have > another armel kernel left, the one of the Raspberry Pi 0 and 1, which > uses an ARMv6 CPU. > > This also removed all the

Re: What to do with d-i on armel?

2024-03-03 Thread Christoph Biedl
Emanuele Rocca wrote... > Any armel users out there? :-) Fairly late, but just to avoid the impression there aren't any left: Yes, here. But that's not an objection against plans in Debian kernel and/or d-i, I'm using my own kernel, and should I ever have the need of a new installation, I know

Re: What to do with d-i on armel?

2024-01-19 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 05:33:23PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Right, though changing the kernel package to support this > sounds easier than changing the installer to use a > foreign architecture kernel package. Well. It is a "dpkg --add-architecture" in the right spot of

Re: What to do with d-i on armel?

2024-01-19 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wed, Jan 17, 2024, at 23:54, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2024-01-10 at 08:34 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> >> Qemu versatilepb is probably the most accessible arm926 >> platform, though there are a couple of other armv5/v6 (ast2400, >> ast2500, pxa27x, raspi1ap) in qemu that one should be

Re: What to do with d-i on armel?

2024-01-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2024-01-10 at 08:34 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Sun, Jan 7, 2024, at 23:07, Bastian Blank wrote: > > Hi > > > > With Linux 6.6 we dropped the Marvell specific kernel image, as it > > was not known to work on any of the available devices. We still have > > another armel kernel left,

Re: Future for armel? (was: Re: What to do with d-i on armel?)

2024-01-10 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 at 09:46, Martin wrote: > > Quoting Bastian Blank : > > But why? What is provided by an armel userland that armhf can't? > > My employer runs Debian on this armv5(?) hardware: > > https://www.taskit.de/produkte/embedded-produkte/computer-on-module/132/stamp9g20-512f/128r > >

Re: Future for armel? (was: Re: What to do with d-i on armel?)

2024-01-10 Thread Martin
Quoting Bastian Blank : But why? What is provided by an armel userland that armhf can't? My employer runs Debian on this armv5(?) hardware: https://www.taskit.de/produkte/embedded-produkte/computer-on-module/132/stamp9g20-512f/128r Sure, the kernel is not the Debian one, but something

Future for armel? (was: Re: What to do with d-i on armel?)

2024-01-10 Thread Bastian Blank
[dropped some recipients, this mail is not about d-i and the problem at hand] Hi On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 08:34:27AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The most important ARMv5 platform is now probably at91, as > Microchip still releases new sam9 chips[1] and is going to > keep supporting it for a

Re: What to do with d-i on armel?

2024-01-09 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Sun, Jan 7, 2024, at 23:07, Bastian Blank wrote: > Hi > > With Linux 6.6 we dropped the Marvell specific kernel image, as it > was not known to work on any of the available devices. We still have > another armel kernel left, the one of the Raspberry Pi 0 and 1, which > uses an ARMv6 CPU. > >

Re: What to do with d-i on armel?

2024-01-09 Thread Martin
On 2024-01-09 19:56, Emanuele Rocca wrote: > though. Any armel users out there? :-) My employer uses Debian on armel, but not d-i :-)

Re: What to do with d-i on armel?

2024-01-09 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi Bastian, On Sun, Jan 07, 2024 at 11:07:48PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > Do we have any armel subarch that can be installed via d-i? Not as far as I know, perhaps Sledge has more info on this? Also, I don't think we've seen anyone mentioning armel in ages on debian-boot, both in terms of

What to do with d-i on armel?

2024-01-07 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi With Linux 6.6 we dropped the Marvell specific kernel image, as it was not known to work on any of the available devices. We still have another armel kernel left, the one of the Raspberry Pi 0 and 1, which uses an ARMv6 CPU. This also removed all the udebs from armel, which makes many d-i