Re: U-Boot, d-i and selecting the console device

2015-09-14 Thread Jens Thiele
Jens Thiele writes: > I think you are at debconf - maybe we could meet there? For the archive: we did meet there. Karsten Merker wrote a fine summary on the debian-arm mailing list in Message-ID: <20150911181300.ga7...@excalibur.cnev.de> https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20150911181300.ga7..

Re: U-Boot, d-i and selecting the console device

2015-08-16 Thread Jens Thiele
sorry, for digging out that old thread, but i never got an answer to this one. I think you are at debconf - maybe we could meet there? Jens Thiele writes: > Karsten Merker writes: > >> Ah, so the configuration happens via specific build-time config >> options and not via the u-boot environment

Re: U-Boot, d-i and selecting the console device

2015-06-26 Thread Jens Thiele
Karsten Merker writes: > Ah, so the configuration happens via specific build-time config > options and not via the u-boot environment. In that case, > building additional variants would of course work rather easily > by defining additional targets, but we would end up with a really > large numbe

Re: U-Boot, d-i and selecting the console device

2015-06-26 Thread Jens Thiele
Karsten Merker writes: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:06:05AM +0200, Jens Thiele wrote: > >> The specific u-boot environment is needed for the lcd display >> settings/timings. Would it be an option to build different u-boot >> configurations for the different board+display combinations? > > AFAICS

Re: U-Boot, d-i and selecting the console device

2015-06-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2015-06-21 at 19:01 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > > > What about adding support in debian-installer to dsisplay on both the > > serial console and framebuffer? > > My memory on that topic is unfortunately a bit shady, but IIRC > this was proposed some time ago already and was dismissed

Re: U-Boot, d-i and selecting the console device

2015-06-26 Thread Jens Thiele
not a direct answer to your mail but very related and raising other questions / problems: jessie kernel already supports simplefb (simple framebuffer) together with newer u-boot, specific u-boot environment and a custom device tree it is possible to get a framebuffer. The specific u-boot environm

Re: U-Boot, d-i and selecting the console device

2015-06-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 10:07:17PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 05:52:20PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > Hi, > > > > > AFAICS there is no way to determine the "active" console in > > u-boot and set either the u-boot console variable or the > > s

Re: U-Boot, d-i and selecting the console device

2015-06-21 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 05:52:20PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > Hello everybody, Hi, > AFAICS there is no way to determine the "active" console in > u-boot and set either the u-boot console variable or the > stdout-path property accordingly. Even if there was such a > mechanism, the question

Re: U-Boot, d-i and selecting the console device

2015-06-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Karsten Merker (2015-06-21): > On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 09:17:12AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > > On 2015-06-21, Karsten Merker wrote: > > > If we don't pass a console variable to the kernel, d-i starts > > > on the console device defined by the platform's stdout-path > > > property, i

Re: U-Boot, d-i and selecting the console device

2015-06-21 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-06-21, Karsten Merker wrote: > If we don't pass a console variable to the kernel, d-i starts > on the console device defined by the platform's stdout-path > property, i.e. usually on a serial console - again bad luck > for people having only a framebuffer console. > > If we set the console