Re: uboot@qnap - debian

2022-02-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 10 feb 22, 17:45:27, Philippe Clérié wrote: > > I think *armel* may get another few > years reprieve since Debian based its Pi OS on *armel* instead of *armhf*. > (A rather surprising decision!) Might there be some confusion here? Debian doesn't have a "Pi OS" and it was rather unfortunat

Re: where, besides raspian can I find a full armhf installer that works on an rpi4b?

2022-01-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 23 ian 22, 20:23:18, gene heskett wrote: > I thought I had some cornered earlier today, but when written to u-sd > and booted, were arm64. > > For low latency reasons when a realtime kernel is installed it must be > for armhf. Disclaimer: I don't know much about the RPi4b, take below wi

Re: reject dhclient offer from wrong subnet

2021-12-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 dec 21, 16:26:42, Tuxo wrote: > Hi list > > My router and my docsys modem power on at the same time. the modem is > handing out dhcp offers of 192.168.100/24 . I assume they are meant for > internal set up purposes and dhclient on my router should not catch or > respond to them. Only the

Re: Debian on Raspberry Pi and Pine* and probably ARM support in general (was Re: Debian on Pine64 H64B?)

2021-09-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 11 sep 21, 04:30:21, Peter Ehlert wrote: > > On 9/11/21 1:11 AM, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Sep 2021 10:01:49 +0300 > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Andrei -- happy Debian user of a PINE A64+ and (st

Re: Debian on Raspberry Pi and Pine* and probably ARM support in general (was Re: Debian on Pine64 H64B?)

2021-09-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 04 sep 21, 08:31:11, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2021-09-04, LinAdmin wrote: > > The unnamed decision makers of Debian some unknown time ago > > decided that Pi and Pine stuff won't be supported by Debian. > > I personally have added support in Debian for: > > Raspberry Pi 1 > Raspbe

Linux mainline / pure Debian on Acer Chromebook R13 [was: Re: Feedback from the community -> ARM]

2021-06-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 11 iun 21, 19:24:45, Milan P. Stanić wrote: > On Fri, 2021-06-11 at 10:03, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > [1] writing this on an Acer Chromebook R13 running an ancient kernel > > from archlinuxarm.org that would benefit from mainline support. > > Also I'm

Re: Feedback from the community -> ARM

2021-06-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 11 iun 21, 09:25:07, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > > The official arm64 install documentation lists as of today > as supported arm64 boards: > > Applied Micro (APM) Mustang/X-Gene T > ARM Juno Development Platform > > Has anybody of you seen these in the wild? > Why is the Raspberry Pi 4 with

Re: Feedback from the community -> ARM

2021-06-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 10 iun 21, 16:43:44, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > > - relevant SoC/SBC vendors: >- Allwinner >- Broadcom / RaspberryPi Foundation >- Marvell >- NXP >- Odroid >- Rockchip >- some more for sure (which?) There are some interesting Chromebooks (existing and announced)

Re: Vanilla arm64 bullseye and vcgencmd / Install docs

2021-05-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 28 mai 21, 15:10:07, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > > And: Is there any effort to get installing on RPi4 better documented, > eg to include the very comprehensive walkthrough in the RPi > Forum as some kind of official installation documentation? > > https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic

Re: on OpenRD "client" ( arch = armv5tel ) Upgraded from Buster to Bullseye and haveged stoped working.

2021-03-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 14 mar 21, 00:41:54, Rick Thomas wrote: > > I have submitted a bugreport. I'll update to the list when I get the bug > number... For the future, you can use the X-Debbugs-Cc: pseudo-header to ask the BTS to send a copy of the report as received by the maintainer (including bug number) s

Re: RPi customization utility [Re: More progress to report [Re: Debian Bullseye on Raspberry Pi 4 4GB?]]

2021-03-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 28 feb 21, 06:49:49, Alan Corey wrote: > Right, I wasn't exactly recommending running raspi-config on a non-raspian > system but looking at how it does things and doing them manually. One of > the things I dislike about Debian (I haven't looked at others) is that > there's an ever-increasin

Re: How to get Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi working with Debian Bullseye on Pine A64+?

2021-02-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 22 feb 21, 05:12:29, oreg...@disroot.org wrote: > > I see the difficulty of supporting many, many platforms this way, > but... > For every phone* or phone-like device I've owned, there has always > been at least one image available to flash, and often a few or more to > choose from, from

Re: Progress report [Re: Debian Bullseye on Raspberry Pi 4 4GB?]

2021-02-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 21 feb 21, 09:20:07, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 8:58 AM Reco wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 08:42:45AM -0500, Alan Corey wrote: > > > I guess a question is why you want an RTC. If you have a decent > > > internet connection just run NTP on something and it will set

Re: Rock Pi 4 A boot loader?

2021-02-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 02 feb 21, 00:04:23, Michael Fladischer wrote: > > I managed to hand-craft the extlinux/extlinux.conf file onto the > /boot-partition and now the board successfully booted vanilla > Debian/unstable. The package u-boot-menu might be useful. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/F

Bug#978052: u-boot-sunxi: USB keyboard not working in u-boot menu

2020-12-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Package: u-boot-sunxi Version: 2020.10+dfsg-1+b1 X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-arm@lists.debian.org On Mi, 28 oct 20, 15:14:12, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 28 oct 20, 13:35:53, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > The only issue (not new) is that the Logitech K400 is not usable in > >

Re: Issues installing libc6:arm64 on amd64

2020-11-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 20 nov 20, 10:20:39, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 20 November 2020 09:44:04 Witold Baryluk wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am not sure if this is the best mailing list, but couldn't find > > anything fitting better. > > > > > > I am using Debian testing on amd64. > > > > I am interested in te

Re: Ampere EMAG

2020-11-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 15 nov 20, 15:10:34, Christian Kastner wrote: > > That's how I do it on amd64 currently. I assign each worker VM 4 cores > and 8GB of RAM, and let a few workers run in parallel. I'm sure 8GB is > insufficient for some packages (eg: the kernel), but I haven't run into > one of them yet for m

Re: Installation images for arm64 - PINE A64+

2020-10-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 28 oct 20, 13:35:53, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > The only issue (not new) is that the Logitech K400 is not usable in > u-boot. It works fine it the installer. That's a wireless keyboard / touchpad combo, sorry for the sloppy editing. > Is this expected? Kind regards

Re: Installation images for arm64 - PINE A64+

2020-10-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 27 oct 20, 08:02:18, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > For arm64, there's at least support for Pinebook Pro and Rock64 and > numerous other systems: > > > https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/arm64/20201027-02:17/netboot/SD-card-images/ > > I or others have tested that they boot at some poin

Re: Is there any "easy to use" arm64 laptop

2020-10-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 13 oct 20, 12:44:55, David Pottage wrote: > > > PPS: Please CC me, I'm not subscribed to this list. > > That is rude. If you want our help then you should join the list and > participate. This is not a high traffic list, and perhaps you will have > something to contribute on another issue.

Re: Is there any "easy to use" arm64 laptop

2020-10-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 13 oct 20, 09:28:15, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Since I have not given up the plan to have a "small laptop replacement" > for my amd64 workhorse, I wonder whether you might be able to recommend > some hardware with the following features: The PineBookPro comes pretty close to your requiremen

Re: Debian on an ASUS Chromebook C202XA?

2020-09-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 02 sep 20, 15:45:56, Milan P. Stanić wrote: > > Enric have some scripts and short guides for installing Debian here > https://github.com/eballetbo/chromebooks This looks like a good start. Will take a while until I get to it though as I have more pressing matters to deal with at the momen

Re: Debian on an ASUS Chromebook C202XA?

2020-09-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 01 sep 20, 18:27:40, Milan P. Stanić wrote: > On Tue, 2020-09-01 at 17:32, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 4:28 PM Matti Palmström > > wrote: > > > > > > Hello everyone. > > > > > > Just saw a good price on an ASUS Chromebook C202XA that runs on a > > > Media Tek MT8173C.

Re: X11 modul for pinebook?

2020-04-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 20 apr 20, 21:11:48, Andreas Tille wrote: > > I have a pinebook of the first generation installed with Stretch. I > naively assumed that it would the right time to upgrade to Buster. > Unfortunately X does not start any more: Hi Andreas, As far as I know the Pinebook is based on the Allw

Re: Resize a disk image from 32G to 4G or copy u-boot?

2020-03-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 24 mar 20, 19:12:46, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And nothing so far, and I have been watching, in the way of reducing a > filesystem to only the actual size occupied. Then it can be backed up > with dd and recovered, rewritten by dd, at a reasonable size for > storage. And re-expanded to fi

Re: RockPro64 - Boot fails if fstab has volumes on PCIe SSD

2020-03-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 21 mar 20, 20:26:34, David Pottage wrote: > Hello, > > I have a RockPro64 running Armbian buster version 20.02.1 (Linux kernel > 5.4.20-rockchip64) > > I have connected an M.2 SSD via an adapter in the PCIe slot, and have setup > an LVM PV on it, with a number logical ext4 and btrfs volume

Re: Raspberry Pi

2020-03-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 02 mar 20, 10:43:57, Pete Batard wrote: > On 2020.03.02 09:56, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 02 mar 20, 09:49:33, Pete Batard wrote: > > > > > > Well, the situation for networking on Pi4 might change once the Debian > > > maintainers add https://bugs.

Re: Raspberry Pi

2020-03-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 02 mar 20, 09:01:48, Alan Corey wrote: > I would consider a > limit a defect if there's no way to disable it for benchmarking > purposes, I thought I was seeing around 300 FPS a couple years ago on > my Rock64 from Glxgears but I can't duplicate it now. I'm considering > it a measure of ef

Re: Raspberry Pi

2020-03-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 02 mar 20, 09:49:33, Pete Batard wrote: > > Well, the situation for networking on Pi4 might change once the Debian > maintainers add https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=950578 > which is a kernel patch I submitted a few weeks ago. [...] > Who should one contact when they wa

Re: Armbian

2020-02-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 03 feb 20, 21:46:09, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > > The debian installer sounds great in theory, but in practice you install > from one medium to a second medium. But with the device I have there is > just a single medium: the sdcard I enter. The disk or ssd can be added > optionally, or yo

Re: Rockchip RK3399 based board for server use?

2020-01-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 14 ian 20, 12:35:00, David Pottage wrote: > On 2020-01-12 09:14, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Sb, 11 ian 20, 19:42:24, David Pottage wrote: > > > > There is an installation guide on the Debian Wiki, though > > > it is not clear if the process is easy.

Re: Rockchip RK3399 based board for server use?

2020-01-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 11 ian 20, 19:42:24, David Pottage wrote: > > The RockPro64, is a bit larger and more expensive. It has a full size PCIe > x4 socket, so I can fit an NVMe drive using a simple adapter. I can’t find > any pre-built cases, so I would have to make something myself, though I have > done that be

Re: Graphical installer on arm64

2020-01-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 05 ian 20, 22:06:15, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: > > Can anyone else test this on other arm64 machines? I'm pretty sure it would > work, but I suspect chromebook hardware to be weird so my success might not > be indicative of general success. I'd be interested to test this on the Acer Chromebo

Re: Support for accelerated graphics and video decoding on PINE A64+ in bullseye

2019-12-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 14 dec 19, 14:07:31, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > I changed my xorg.conf as per [1], but not apparent change. What (else) > > is missing? > > For the Allwinner A64 the sun8i-mixer module is missing, see #946510. > > With a recompiled kernel I was able to s

Re: Support for accelerated graphics and video decoding on PINE A64+ in bullseye

2019-12-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 06 dec 19, 19:57:07, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 06 dec 19, 15:05:32, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > > W dniu 06.12.2019 o 14:52, Alan Corey pisze: > > > > > The issue probably centers around the Mali GPU if it has one. > > > > > ARM stopped providi

Re: Support for accelerated graphics and video decoding on PINE A64+ in bullseye

2019-12-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 06 dec 19, 15:05:32, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > W dniu 06.12.2019 o 14:52, Alan Corey pisze: > > > The issue probably centers around the Mali GPU if it has one. > > > ARM stopped providing x11 drivers, expect everyone to jump to > > Wayland. Hope they get sued. I've spent most of a week

Support for accelerated graphics and video decoding on PINE A64+ in bullseye

2019-12-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Hello, I'm trying to get accelerated video and/or decoding working on a PINE A64+ (2 GiB RAM) on bullseye. With xserver-xorg-video-fbdev I get about 180 frames in glxgears with 1.4 load (openbox at 1920 x 1080). This is usable only for basic tasks, e.g. Kodi starts, but the interface has sig

Re: Bug#933101: buster: baseline for armel raised to ARMv5T

2019-08-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 25 aug 19, 21:27:49, Paul Gevers wrote: > > On 27-07-2019 07:51, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Below a patch for the Release Notes, loosely inspired from the s390x > > entry. > > > > Feedback very much welcome, especially whether this is > > an

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 30 iul 19, 18:35:21, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 30 July 2019 15:42:14 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Ma, 30 iul 19, 06:02:05, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > is empty. kern.log.1 is over 200k, and the list won't accept that. > > > > [citation needed]

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 30 iul 19, 06:02:05, Gene Heskett wrote: > > is empty. kern.log.1 is over 200k, and the list won't accept that. [citation needed] Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Add support for Pine64 RockPro64

2019-07-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 27 iul 19, 10:22:41, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2019-07-27, Michael Gratton wrote: > > > Uboot has support for for the chipset[1] > > There is u-boot support specifically for rockpro64-rk3399 upstream > now. I'd be happy to enable it in the u-boot packaging if you or someone > else can

Re: Bug#933101: buster: baseline for armel raised to ARMv5T

2019-07-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: tags patch On Vi, 26 iul 19, 21:11:46, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 26 iul 19, 19:29:26, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > The raise to ARMv5T was necessary to keep armel supported. It wouldn't have > > been > > possible to keep the port if had

Bug#933101: buster: baseline for armel raised to ARMv5T

2019-07-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Package: release-notes Severity: important X-Debbugs-CC: debian-arm@lists.debian.org Full quote for context. On Vi, 26 iul 19, 19:29:26, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Dick! > > On 7/26/19 7:13 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > > The website says that you are supporting 4T in the ARMEL repo: >

Re: loss of synaptic due to wayland

2019-07-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 08 iul 19, 07:42:46, Gene Heskett wrote: > > yes it was, and no solution was offered that I read about. And no, > aptitude is not a replacement. I've hit q for quit and had it tear a > working system down to doing a reinstall to recover, 3 times now. I used to be a heavy aptitude user in

Re: Bug#928612: u-boot-sunxi: Enable support for NanoPi NEO2

2019-05-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 09 mai 19, 07:58:39, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 11:07:10PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > It is sufficient to just create the partition table, deleting and adding > > partitions from the installer (manual partitioning) should be safe. &g

Re: Bug#928612: u-boot-sunxi: Enable support for NanoPi NEO2

2019-05-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 08 mai 19, 18:28:28, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > > The first road block is the partitioner, if let alone it creates a > regular GPT (don't know if it could be instructed to create a legacy MBR > instead) and so overwrites the spl+u-boot leaving the board completely > unbootable. It's possib

Bug#928642: release-notes: please mention improved support in buster for Rockchip RK3328 and RK3399 devices

2019-05-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Package: release-notes Severity: wishlist Tags: moreinfo X-Debbugs-CC: debian-arm@lists.debian.org Hello, According to http://opensource.rock-chips.com/wiki_Status_Matrix mainline should have reasonable support for RK3328 and RK3399 as of 4.14. Considering RK3399 is already used in some inter

Re: BoF at DC19

2019-05-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 07 mai 19, 14:23:16, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hey folks, > > I've just registered a session for the usual BoF at DebConf. If you > have any specific topics you'd like to raise, please let me know... As a Debian user I'd like to suggest providing a straightforward way to install Debian on r

Re: Debian Installer on Pine64+ (no serial console)

2019-05-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 07 mai 19, 00:33:19, peter green wrote: > On 04/05/19 18:49, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/PINE64/PINEA64 > This prompted me to reinstall my pine64 which has been sitting idle > for a while, since the old install (based on a vend

Re: Bug#928480: release-notes: please mention support for devices based on Allwinner A64

2019-05-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 05 mai 19, 22:27:50, Justin B Rye wrote: > Justin B Rye wrote: > > + > > It occurs to me the moment after I hit send: should this be > > > > or something? My intention was to promote arm64 devices as a viable alternative for some applications, so I would prefer if it wasn't "hidden"

Re: is there a cmdline.txt or similar

2019-05-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 05 mai 19, 12:08:53, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 05 May 2019 11:51:51 am Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Du, 05 mai 19, 11:11:37, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > in debian-arm(hf) for the pi's that will make it read and ap

Re: is there a cmdline.txt or similar

2019-05-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 05 mai 19, 11:11:37, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > in debian-arm(hf) for the pi's that will make it read and apply the > keyboard/mouse config that you get from running that utility after the > boot?? What utility? With a quick web search I found that keyboard repeat rate is

Re: Debian Installer on Pine64+ (no serial console)

2019-05-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 05 mai 19, 00:40:29, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2019-05-05, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Sb, 04 mai 19, 12:29:30, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > >> > >> The really important A64 timer issue fix finally went in 4.19.28-1, > >> without which the clock wou

Bug#928457: arm64: please apply workaround for A64 timer instability

2019-05-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Source: linux Version: 4.19.28-2 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-arm@lists.debian.org Hello, The Allwinner A64 is affected by a bug that makes the clock jump, usually 95 years into the future. The mainline kernel contains a workaround merged for 5.1: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux

Re: Debian Installer on Pine64+ (no serial console)

2019-05-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 04 mai 19, 12:29:30, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > The really important A64 timer issue fix finally went in 4.19.28-1, > without which the clock would occasionally leap 90+ extra years into the > future and find yourself experiencing all sorts of stability problems: Hmm, apparently erratum

Re: Debian Installer on Pine64+ (no serial console)

2019-05-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 04 mai 19, 20:43:49, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Andrei - how was your SD card formatted when you started? Inside d-i, > partman should not be creating a new partition table if there's one > already there. I 'cp'ed the file pine64_plus.img to the SD card, which (from memory) creates/contain

Re: Debian Installer on Pine64+ (no serial console)

2019-05-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 04 mai 19, 12:29:30, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > It's definitely frustrating that sunxi64 installs the bootloader and > boot firmware at an offset incompatible with GPT partitioning... I've > heard there might hacks to set up a compatible GPT partition table, but > the defaults are definit

Re: Debian Installer on Pine64+ (no serial console)

2019-05-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 04 mai 19, 06:57:43, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > I'm ready to start a second try where I will be using manual > partitioning (without GPT), hoping I will get a bootable system. This worked, see https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/PINE64/PINEA64 Kind regards, A

Re: Debian Installer on Pine64+ (no serial console)

2019-05-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 03 mai 19, 14:48:02, Rick Thomas wrote: > Hi Andrei, Hi Rick, > Did you get any answer on this? I’m thinking of replacing my armel > hardware (a couple of OpenRD boxes and a SheevaPlug) with something > more modern, and the Pine64+ looks like a good candidate, but I’ll > need to be abl

Debian Installer on Pine64+ (no serial console)

2019-05-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
[I seem to recall a previous discussion about this but can't find it anymore] Hi, I've been trying to install Debian on the Pine64+ using the Debian Installer (Buster RC1). This is mostly for educational/backup purposes as I already have a working buster installed with debootstrap. To make t

Re: Installation media for arm64

2019-03-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 23 mar 19, 21:00:23, Christian Kastner wrote: V> I recently purchased a A64-OLinuXino and I believe it should be > supported by the tooling in buster. > > However, at first glance, I couldn't fine any (trivial) installation > documentation for this device. The Allwinner wiki page [1] contai

Re: Debian buster on Pine64+ (2 GiB RAM)

2018-12-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Thu, 13 Dec 18, 20:30:03, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 09 dec 18, 15:02:37, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > > I've seen occasional issues on the pine64+ with ethernet either not > > showing a device at all, > > This is my case. Any pointers on how to further diag

Re: Debian buster on Pine64+ (2 GiB RAM)

2018-12-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 09 dec 18, 15:02:37, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > I've seen occasional issues on the pine64+ with ethernet either not > showing a device at all, This is my case. Any pointers on how to further diagnose this? > or with showing a device but being unable to > get a dhcp lease... I have an ear

Re: Debian buster on Pine64+ (2 GiB RAM)

2018-12-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 09 dec 18, 10:23:02, Christian Marillat wrote: > > I don't see issues with the experimental kernel 4.19.5-1~exp1 : Could the issue be with u-boot then, possibly not initializing the hardware correctly? I'm using the u-boot-sunxi 2018.11+dfsg-1 package from Debian. Thanks, Andrei -- htt

Re: Debian buster on Pine64+ (2 GiB RAM)

2018-12-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 09 dec 18, 09:45:37, Christian Marillat wrote: > > ethernet has been added in 4.15 : > > https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort#Status_Matrix > > ethernet is working well with 4.18 from armbian. Right, I even have working ethernet with CallMeFoxie's kernel (4.14.7). https://foru

Re: Debian buster on Pine64+ (2 GiB RAM)

2018-12-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 08 dec 18, 13:23:31, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2018-12-08, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > I'm trying to run buster on a Pine64+ (2 GiB RAM). So far I created the > > rootfs with debootstrap, installed linux-image-arm64 and ran > > u-boot-install-sunxi64 on the SD

Debian buster on Pine64+ (2 GiB RAM)

2018-12-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Hello, I'm trying to run buster on a Pine64+ (2 GiB RAM). So far I created the rootfs with debootstrap, installed linux-image-arm64 and ran u-boot-install-sunxi64 on the SD card. The systems boots only to the u-boot prompt, so I'm missing something to have u-boot find and load the kernel. In

Re: Debian in a Pcduino3

2014-12-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 27 dec 14, 22:59:58, Patrice Go wrote: > experimental, i don't know. i ve never installed more than a debian testing > version. unstable was always hard in my view, but experimental, is > definitively too hard for me... and i imagine there's no tutorial to do it, > or it is maybe very comple

Re: Changing IP addresses with dhclient

2014-07-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 28 iun 14, 16:24:16, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hi Tim, > > thank you for your reply. The "Last write time" from the filesystem > superblock > does only refer to writes to the superblock not the entire filesystem: ... > Thus I followed the idea to use the timestamp of syslog: https://packag

Re: How to ensure clock is updated in a device driver

2014-05-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 12 mai 14, 16:58:21, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Hi, all, > > I'm working on a driver to monitor a device. One of the things I need is an > accurate time, and ARM clocks are notoriously subject to drift. Once the > system is booted, that's not a problem as I can use an ntp server in a cron > jo

Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

2014-04-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 27 apr 14, 20:32:10, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > sure you can put debian-installer onto an SD card directly but then > you will not be able to install the OS onto the SD card because debian > installer will be using it. I'm not familiar with the ARM installer, but on i386/amd64 th

Re: Official support Odroid hardware and other ARM development boards.

2014-02-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 26 feb 14, 17:54:47, Reg Lnx wrote: > > I'd like to know if Debian community have plans to officially support > any of those development boards, providing ready to boot images, > containing the Debian Installer for example. > > I am a owner of a Raspberry Pi Model B rev 1 and an Odroid u3.

Re: ARMHF - Mediaplayer software?

2013-04-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 06 apr 13, 20:17:32, Rüdiger Leibrandt wrote: > Having heard a lot about the Raspberry Pi I got myself a pair. > They're very nice things, but one thing drives me mad: > They suck for Video playback. > Having tried mplayer, vlc, XMMS and basically everything I get with > apt-cache search vid

Re: The new armhf in town...

2012-07-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
[CC'ing only because you did, JFYI, I am subscribed to debian-arm] On Mi, 18 iul 12, 19:04:20, peter green wrote: > > >Did you consider to integrate this project tighter with Debian > I don't think it will ever be in debian proper for a couple of reasons > > Firstly I think it would be very diff

Re: The new armhf in town...

2012-07-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 17 iul 12, 18:00:47, Mike Thompson wrote: > A few months ago I asked some basic questions about the possibility of > a port of Debian armhf to the Raspberry Pi on this email list. I > received a number of thoughtful answers that helped set me on the path > to creating Raspbian -- an unoffic