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 <mer...@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 <mer...@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. If you
want to carry on with a platform-specific branch, please keep discussion
of that work on your own list.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
- John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy 1981-1987
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