Package: u-boot-sunxi Version: 2016.11~rc2+dfsg1-1 Severity: wishlist Hi! Could you please provide some docs how to use this package to install/update on an existing system? Documentation currently provided is pointless: * it describes how to cross-compile from sources, despite this being a compiled package * it describes how to do that from another host, despite the package being available only on :arm64 (ie, natively) * assumes building a new image, nuking the existing system. One could manually copy parts before the first partition but that's error-prone and undocumented (which bits of sector 0 should be copied and which not? what if the first partition's start differs?)
Docs I find elsewhere seem to assume pre-existing knowledge of u-boot. I for one had written boot menus and boot infectors in the previous millenium, yet, being completely ignorant about u-boot, can't figure it out. Thus, some docs for dummies would be great. Or perhaps I'm missing some nice command that takes Debian kernel packages (either the official ones (no pine64 support yet) or ones produced by "make bindeb-pkg") -- ie, with /boot/vmlinuz-$KVER instead of Image, *.dtb in /usr/lib/linux-image-$KVER/allwinner/, putting all the gubbins in the right places without user intervention? We have this comfort on other archs... Meow! -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: arm64 (aarch64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-rc2-ice-6.1-00050-g2705976 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) -- no debconf information
