On 2015-05-25, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org> (2015-05-24):
>> On 2015-05-24, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>> > Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org> (2015-05-20):
>> >> The version of u-boot in experimental requires some changes for
>> >> debian-installer to generate appropriate u-boot images.
...
>> Both hummingboard and cubox-i use the new mx6cuboxi u-boot target, not
>> sure where exactly to document that. They're nearly identical hardware,
>> largely differing in physical form-factor; cubox-i is crammed into a
>> tiny cube, hummingboard is your more typical dev board (in fact,
>> virtually identical footprint to the raspberry pi).
>
> Sorry, I was a bit lazy yesterday…
>
> Now that I've looked at board/solidrun/mx6cuboxi/mx6cuboxi.c it seems
> one is supposed to distinguish between boards by toying with GPIOs
> (mx6cuboxi.c in u-boot), so nothing for d-i to worry about, as long as
> the user picks the right bits for the relevant device (e.g. the right
> SD-Card concatenateable images)?

Exactly.


> This means this list (including board → devices mapping) should be kept
> uptodate:
>   
> https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/armhf/ch02s01.html#armhf-armmp-supported-platforms
>
> Does that make sense, or did I just lose myself in (h)arm-land?

None of these changes apply to jessie yet; they're all targeted at
stretch so far.

That page also only lists the information about the kernel, not u-boot
or the SD-card images... might require some restructuring to get more
specific about the images available.


live well,
  vagrant

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