On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 11:24 +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Hello Ian! > > Thanks for your input! > > On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 07:54:08AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > [...] > > Did you also pick up the designware fixes? (It sounds like it since > > Andreas reports dhcp working). > > There where a bunch of designware patches in the package. > > > FYI there is support for cubieboard 1&2 and a couple of other boards > > (one ofthe OLinuxIno ones I think) ongoing on the u-boot list. > > > > To be really useful we would also want the AHCI driver which is also > > currently being reviewed on the list. > > > > I suppose all of that ought to wait for upstream acceptance though. > [...] > > Hopefully you'll be able to get these patches in before v2014.07 > and I think we can live without AHCI until then (which AIUI means > there will be a need for a /boot partition on MMC which isn't the > end of the world).
The problem is that in sid we currently have Linux v3.14 which speaks AHCI but not MMC and u-boot upstream currently speaks MMC but not AHCI. The Linux MMC patches are currently backported to our v3.15 kernel which is in experimental. But it has now transpired that v3.14 is likely to be the next upstream longterm stable [0], which has an impact on what will be in Jessie. If we end up going with v3.14 I'll have to investigate backporting the MMC patches further to 3.14, I'm not sure how plausible that will be. (Personally my use cases centre around SATA disks more than MMC, but I'm still happy to attempt the driver backport to 3.14 if it turns out to be needed) [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2014/06/msg00017.html > Of the unmerged patches on the mailinglist, this one looks like > a fix for a pretty horrible problem though: > > http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2014-June/180936.html > > Maybe the description makes it sound worse then it really is? It is pretty nasty, but AIUI it is benign unless you have other mainline patches which actually expose the issue, so unless we backport those (I don't know which they are, but I think we are unlikely to grab them) I think we are "OK". Once that patch goes upstream we should definitely take it though. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
