On Thu, 2014-12-18 at 20:20 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi Ian, > > thanks for the fast response! > > On Donnerstag, 18. Dezember 2014, Ian Campbell wrote: > > But. I don't think any modern kernel supports the efika, it was removed > > from the mainline kernel a while ago (summer 2012 it seems [0]) and was > > therefore removed from the installer on that basis too[1] > > thanks, I was looking for this information (as I saw in the jessie d-i beta1 > release notes that support for efikamx was removed, but I couldn't really > find > out why..) and then I saw this in the linux debian/changelog from 3.11.5-1 > from October 2013: > > * [armhf] Remove mx5, omap and vexpress flavours. These are all supported > by the multiplatform flavour. > > That sounded promising enough, so I gave upgrading a try...
Yeah, mx5 general still works (AFAIK), it's just the efika stuff which has gone. > > > It didn't come back, will need to attach a serial console and see if I > > > see anything useful there... > > I wonder if I should still bother... With (AFAIK) no DTB file in existence it'd be something of a miracle if it worked I'm afraid :-( > > From what I gather this is not unexpected. I'm not sure why this > > platform was removed upstream, [...] > > Sorry, I expect none of this was what you wanted to hear :-( > > Indeed, but thanks for explaining! > > I'll guess I'll go with owning another brick then ;-) I did look for non-mainline community/kernel support a while back, but it might be worth having another look before putting it in the attic. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org