Debian platform firmware strategy?

2014-07-01 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Platform firmware is an odd beast in the world of software. It is mostly different per device. It is mostly proprietary and binary only. When it isn't proprietary, the code is probably not merged upstream. Sometimes it is very hard or impossible to update. It is very easy to brick a device

Re: vmlinuz hang at "Loading Kernel Image ... "

2014-07-01 Thread drEagle
On 01/07/2014 09:32, drEagle wrote: > Hi hackers, The problems is with make-kpkg, that I may use badly; a working kernel is built with : time KBUILD_DEBARCH=armhf ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- CC=arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc STRIP=arm-linux-gnueabihf-strip DEB_HOST_ARCH=armhf CLEAN_SOU

vmlinuz hang at "Loading Kernel Image ... "

2014-07-01 Thread drEagle
Hi hackers, I can't boot a custom kernel while it is debian packaged. With booting my dtb+zImage my netgear RN104 is booting fine. With a vmlinuz (from a custom make-kpkg deb) and a flash-kernel (from wheezy-backports) I get hang on the message "Loading Kernel Image ... " The boot.scr used is t