On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Neil Williams wrote: > Sidenote:: d-i.debian.org doesn't work as just the IP address, so the > locations cannot be given directly to tftp in u-boot as that needs a > serverip and a directory. This makes it harder to replicate what LAVA > is doing when testing by hand because the files from d-i.debian.org > need to be downloaded to a tftp server directory first.
The Debian sysadmins can probably help fix that, however I guess it would be better to force verification of the authenticity of the downloaded files, which I'm assuming u-boot wouldn't be capable of doing. > ISOs are not just about optical drives. (Yes, there are ARMv8 platforms > currently available which have DVD rewriters installed). ISOs are also > a good way (possibly the most common way) of writing an SD card and > the only way to get some devices to boot. I wonder if there are systems that can boot from USB CD/DVD drives, IIRC the latter exists. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6EEJMmRPTnJEz=k8nousxsbabdrxmn7wknucu-kdwq...@mail.gmail.com