Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: Hi,
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Peter Bauer wrote: > >> What are the steps to be taken to get Debian running on this device ? > > Same as for any device: > > Get support for the device into Linux mainline. > > Wait for Debian to contain that version of the linux source package. > > Ask the Debian Linux kernel team to add a linux-image-* package for > the device (or just use the arm device-tree based multiplatform kernel > once it exists). > > Get the device-tree stuff for the device into Debian. No idea how this > is going to work, I guess they will be shipped with the linux source > package? atm, the kernel package is already shipping some dtbs (look at linux-image-3.2.0-4-kirkwood), so it'll be the same for the multiplatform case. As concerns the dts files, there has been some discussions upstream to use a different place than the kernel source but currently, device-tree is a too fast moving target to allow this. > > Get a bootloader for the device into Debian. If this is u-boot, a > prerequisite for this is to get support into upstream. Add support in flash-kernel for your device Arnaud -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/871uala2xt....@lebrac.rtp-net.org
