On 2015-04-15, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Karsten Merker <mer...@debian.org> (2015-04-15):
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 06:42:57PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>> > I've tested that it boots the armhf daily hd-media installer and
>> > boots an installed system. I could upload a new version of u-boot if
>> > it's deemed worth it; otherwise we'll just need more complicated
>> > instructions for manually loading the installer on d-i. FWIW, The
>> > netboot media via tftp works without any changes.
...
>> As the deadline for d-i-relevant changes is Friday, the question
>> is what to do now.  AFAICS due to the necessity to change the BBB
>> boot script in flash-kernel when the patch is applied to u-boot,
>> both flash-kernel and u-boot would have to enter Jessie in
>> lockstep.  As there is not enough time for regular migration to
>> Jessie, the release team would have to urgent both packages in
>> addition to an unblock to keep the deadline.  The involved DDs
>> are in vastly different timezones, which makes all this even more
>> problematic.  As stated above, I probably won't be able to take
>> care of flash-kernel in time, so unless Ian would like to handle
>> that, I do not see a a realistic chance to get this solved for
>> Jessie.
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> So I've been thinking about this for a while and I'm not too happy about
> possibly rushing these changes at this point. What could be considered
> instead is having these changes staged into unstable, let them migrate
> to testing/stretch when the freeze is lifted, and possibly backport them
> in to the jessie first point release. A workaround can be documented in
> the D-I Jessie RC3 errata.

Seems like we've missed the chance to resolve this for Jessie's first
point release, but perhaps we can make it for the second point release?

I don't see anything mentioned in the errata yet:

  https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer/#errata

Not sure what the process is to update that, but I'd be happy to work on
some text for it.


Flash-kernel in unstable has the needed changes and u-boot in unstable
has the needed changes, although I think it would be better to go with
the smaller patch I had proposed earlier rather than backporting the
entire distro_bootcmd stack...


Now that USB support is working on the BBB with the kernel in
jessie-proposed-updates(Yay!), BeagleBone Black is a more attractive
platform for running Debian on, so it would be nice to get d-i support
working out of the box...


live well,
  vagrant

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