On 2019-05-14, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 10:13:50AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> On 2019-05-12, Karsten Merker wrote: >> > On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 10:40:39AM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: >> > > Please mind that the NanoPi NEO 2 target for u-boot has just been merged >> > > in sid so it's not yet in Buster. >> ... >> > while the change looks ok to me, I'd very much prefer if it was >> > actually tested before committing it (the same is true for >> > bug#928863). >> >> Would it be ok to test it in-place on an installed system by adding the >> entry to /etc/flash-kernel/db? That's how I usually test boards I've >> added. Or do you not have an installed system? > > Yes, I've a running system and the locally built flash-kernel now > creates a nice boot.scr in /boot. ... >> It's a bit difficult to fully test within debian-installer, as the >> installer typically pulls in .udebs from the archive, and you have a bit >> of chicken-and-egg problem to require testing from d-i, or a lot of >> manual fiddling within the installer. You could also patch >> /target/etc/flash-kernel/db or /target/usr/share/flash-kernel/db from >> within the install at just the right moment ...
I'm thinking we should just merge the flash-kernel support, which will make it much easier to test properly, and can be reverted if need be... Since kibi merged the NanoPI NEO 2 debian-installer support, and I just added support for SD-card-images, it should be much easier to test. When the daily images for 20190516 are generated they should include "netboot/SD-card-images" for several allwinner arm64 boards: https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/arm64/ Then, as long as you don't rewrite the partition table, you should be able to install to microSD and it won't create a GPT partition table and won't use grub-efi... and it should use the flash-kernel boot.scr! live well, vagrant
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