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

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 21:04 +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Luke, Debian uses upstream kernels with minimal backporting.

 ... which is not yet complete, meaning that that will reach only a
small handful of people.  if you want to reach more people, thus
increasing the probability of more people being in a position to help
use upstream kernels with minimal backporting, then bridging the gap
between the two would seem like a good idea, would you agree?

 anyway - i´m done here. you guys are doing ok.  i have had to take
other work - for the second time now - which places the project that i
started on a back-burner until we have sales or funding.

 so please, feel free to do whatever you choose.

l.