On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 09:09:56PM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021, at 8:57 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > On 2021-02-10, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > I have not recently (since before 2019) done anything more than allow > > > aptitude to upgrade packages as it thinks best. In particular, I have > > > not made any attempt to burn new firmware on the device. > > > > The debian u-boot packages do not automatically upgrade the u-boot > > installed to the device; it requires manual intervention on the part of > > the system administrator above and beyond just upgrading the debian > > packages through apt, aptitude, etc. > > > > I think u-boot upstream is talking about dropping it for 2021.04, so my > > guess is you would still have another entire debian release cycle with > > the available 2021.01 version of u-boot *if* that version still works... > > If you can point me to instructions for doing that manual > intervention, I'll be happy to test whatever version you recommend, I > hope the instructions also include how to recover if it *doesn't* > work!
I think this unfortunately gets to the heart of the problem. We need someone that cares about the platform to step up and do the maintenance. Most of the work shouldn't be too hard and there's examples of many previous conversions. The mvsata_ide driver is probably the hardest part but I think it just means that the ide_preinit() call needs to be worked in to the new ide_probe() function rather than the old ide_init(). -- Tom
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