On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk wrote:

On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 21:04 +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

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On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Karsten Merker merker@debian.org wrote:

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On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 03:52:36PM +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

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On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Karsten Merker merker@debian.org wrote:

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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}.

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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?

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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.