Hi Uwe, On Thu, Aug 6, 2026 at 1:48 AM Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 2) How do you intend to use a debian image on these boards? The kernel > > does not currently have mainline support or drivers, and the SPI flash > > memory is likely too small for a debian image, as it required > > extensive tweaking in yocto to build root filesystems that would fit. > > Is it going to use exclusively NFS as the root filesystem? > > My usecase here was to be able to start the installer to create a rootfs > on the eMMC for kernel development on "my" sc598 board. > And I'm using a custom kernel with the Debian rootfs because indeed > mainline doesn't work on these machines yet.
Sounds cool! I've never tried running a non-yocto setup on these boards. > > > 3) Why not make the same change to the sc594/sc598 boards as well? > > That commit is a port of > https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/u-boot/pull/136 to mainline. I just > modified all non-spl config/sc5* without much thinking. > > I will respin this series on a newer base commit and verify the > resulting image fits into flash---at least on the one machine I have on > my desk. I don't know other sc5xx boards, if some of these have a > smaller flash, enabling CONFIG_BOOTSTD_DEFAULTS for these probably > doesn't work. I think for sc598 and newer this is a good idea. For the older 32-bit ones I agree with Philip that it is probably not worth it. The 598 som has much larger flash as well so it isn't a problem, but the old 573 ezkit has 16 MB total that we tried to get uboot, kernel, and rfs into. Thanks, Greg
