On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 23:45:56 +0200 Karsten Merker <mer...@debian.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 08:55:46PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 09:17:22PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > > >On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 22:51:21 +0100 > > >Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote: > > >> Package: installation-guide-armel > > >> Severity: normal > > >> > > >> As seen in > > >> > > >> https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/armel/ch05s01.html.en > > >> > > >> there's discussion of "unpack the hd-media tarball". This doesn't > > >> exist on armel... > > > > > >Does that mean, that armel does not support that "Boot from USB stick in > > >U-Boot" thingy, described under above link? > > >If that _is_ supported, that chapter needs to be rewritten (simply leaving > > >out the part where the hd-media tarball is mentioned, would make the whole > > >chapter senseless/important part missing). > > > > To the best of my knowledge, we don't have any such support in the > > armel port. I'd love to be corrected on this, but I don't see anything > > like that in our d-i builds. > > > > >Adding arm porters to the loop seems to make sense here. > > > > Nod. > > The boot mechanism used by the hd-media tarball is based on a > mainline u-boot feature called "distro_bootcmd", which is enabled > on all modern armhf platforms. In principle, this feature could > also be enabled in mainline u-boot for armel platforms, but there > are some circumstances that make using this unrealistic for our > current armel targets: > > - It requires the use of multiplatform kernels and devicetree > (as we do on armhf) instead of the platform-specific kernels > and board files that we have for our traditionally supported > armel targets. > > - Most of our armel targets come with a vendor-uboot in ROM > that cannot be easily replaced by a current mainline u-boot > with support for distro_bootcmd. > > As a result, we don't build a hd-media tarball for armel.
Ok, thanks for clarification and confirmation. Holger -- Holger Wansing <li...@wansing-online.de>
