[Arm-netbook] Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Karsten Merker <merker at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 03:52:36PM +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Karsten Merker <merker at debian.org> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I am currently working on better support for sunxi-based ARM systems
>> > in d-i and flash-kernel.  Thanks to Ian's backport of the sunxi AHCI
>> > support from kernel 3.15rc1 into the Debian 3.14 kernel package (as
>> > of linux-image-3.14-trunk-armmp_3.14.1-1~exp2_armhf.deb, currently
>> > only available as source in git) it is now possible to run d-i on
>> > Allwinner A10/A20-based systems like the Cubie{board,board2,truck}.
>>
> [snip]
>>  do you have a pre-built option or some instructions for people to follow?
>
> Sorry, no. This was an experimental build with all components
> locally built from development versions in various git/svn
> repositories.

 ok - then can you please document that somewhere, so that other
people can replicate it and help you out?

> As mentioned in my original mail there is also still the issue of
> the MMC driver not yet being available in mainline,

 that´s ok.  forget mainline.  if you document what you´ve done then
others may replicate it on the more stable kernels.

l.