(Trimming cc a bit.) Karsten Merker <mer...@debian.org> (2016-06-25): > on armhf we currently face some u-boot-related problems. U-Boot > 2016.03 (in unstable and testing) causes kernel hangs under certain > conditions on a number of sunxi platforms. These issues are fixed in > u-boot v2016.05 (latest official release), but v2016.05 has brought > new regressions on the am57xx_evm and firefly-rk3288 platforms, so it > cannot go into the archive as is. For details, please refer to > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825214.
Thanks for bringing this up. > I would be good to have the u-boot issues fixed before we publish the > next d-i release. A possible option would be to backport commit > affa020559bca31d6531e19cb1f009c22705a73d from u-boot 2016.05 to > u-boot 2016.03 and to urgent the result into testing before doing the > d-i release (CCing Vagrant Cascadian, the u-boot maintainer). > > Kibi, Vagrant: what's your opinion on the topic? If the fixes are identified and can be applied on top of the current packages in unstable, pushing them (upload & urgent) looks like a good plan to me. :) KiBi.
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