Hi Martin, (Replying as much as braindumping to avoid rediscovering this next time around.)
Martin Michlmayr <t...@cyrius.com> (2024-04-13): > I'm sorry to be that guy who shows up every few years to waste > everyone's time... but... I was updating my Kirkwood pages for > bookworm and noticed that the OpenRD images are gone. > > Now you may remember that we had the same situation for bullseye > (#934072) and Cyril kindly restored the netboot images: > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/commit/3ef30be60ab128f53a0cd16e6c1e91a3123988b4 > > I guess this change never got committed to master/main because > bullseye was going to be the last release for armel. Well, Rick explicitly said he was happy with bullseye or bookworm, so one of them got implemented… > But armel is still in bookworm and Rick confirmed he's running > bookworm on his OpenRD, so I see no reason why d-i wouldn't work if > we apply the same patch to the bookworm d-i. > > Honestly, I'm not sure if it's worth it as Rick is probably the one > Debian on OpenRD left, but since bookworm will probably be the last > release of armel (or not?) it would be nice if the installer was > working on OpenRD. > > Cyril or Vagrant, can you easily apply the patch above and generate a > test image for Rick? I don't mind doing that again, but what's the game plan here? If systems are already installed and working fine, then d-i is irrelevant. For any new systems people might want to deploy, installing bullseye then upgrading to bookworm already works? We don't have anything to support for armel at the moment (as far as master and testing/unstable are concerned), hence the current “let it die altogether” plan from a d-i perspective: https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2024/03/msg00016.html I'm not sure we should be encouraging new installations of 32-bit hardware at this stage (look at what's happening for i386…). I don't remember seeing a decision regarding armel's being a release arch for trixie, but kernel support is gone already (same thread): https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2024/01/msg00008.html So OpenRD has no future in trixie as far as I understand. At least that would mean not having to do that again again, if we were to enable OpenRD images again for bookworm. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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