David Marlin <dmar...@redhat.com> writes:
> Sean Omalley wrote:
>> That was part of the series, that if you didn't have the correct
>> firmware you had to set the arcnumber, and kernels wouldn't work,
>> and a few other issues. I think ext2 support and zlib both were
>> buggy straight from the manufacturer. Both Arch and Debian, I
>> believe, require updating the firmware, rather then trying to
>> program around broken software that has already been fixed. You even
>> have to update the firmware on x86 before you can get support from
>> anyone.
>
> If guruplug users don't mind updating the firmware, I'm OK with it.
> Do you know the minimum version that should be good (so people know if
> they need to upgrade)?
As a user I don't object to updating uboot, but if that's a requirement
it would be nice to have that recorded in the instructions (as well as
instructions for how to upgrade uboot).
-derek
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