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

2014-04-27 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 21:10 +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > A uImage is a historic u-boot container format containing a Linux zImage > (also often called a "vmlinuz"), which was booted using the "bootm" > command. This is no long

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

2014-04-27 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 21:10 +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 20:32 +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: > >> > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 07:35

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

2014-04-27 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 21:04 +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: >> > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 03:52:36PM +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton >> > wrote: >> >> On Sat, Apr 26, 2

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

2014-04-27 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 20:32 +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: >> > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 07:35:35AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >> >> On Sat, 2014-04-26 at 23:25 +0200, Karst

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

2014-04-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 21:04 +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 03:52:36PM +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > > wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: > >> > Hello, > >> >

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

2014-04-27 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 03:52:36PM +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I am currently working on better support for sunxi-based ARM systems >> > in d-i

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

2014-04-27 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 20:32 +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 07:35:35AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >> On Sat, 2014-04-26 at 23:25 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > > > >> No uImage is required for sunxi,

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

2014-04-27 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 20:14 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > I did not know that u-boot can boot "naked" Linux kernels. I am > rather new to u-boot and all the documention I have read only > mentions booting uImages. Neither the description of > u-boot-sunxi in the sunxi wiki nor the official u-boot

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

2014-04-27 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 07:35:35AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >> On Sat, 2014-04-26 at 23:25 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > >> No uImage is required for sunxi, no uImage is required for sunxi but a uImage is required for *debian installer*

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

2014-04-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 04:54:40PM +0100, peter green wrote: > Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >Why would you NOT use uImage? > Why would you add an unnessacery conversion step if you have a > bootloader capable of loading regular kernel images directly? Well uImage has a checksum, which u-boot can chec

SV: Windows partition not listed after todays (26-apr) updates

2014-04-27 Thread Christina
Hi again! The problem is now solved.The bunch of updates mentioned in last mail was the updates from debian 7.4 ton 7.5.  sudo update-grub and another reboot was needed to solve this. / Den lördag, 26 april 2014 15:18 skrev Christina : Hello! > >I use(d) Wheezy 7.4 until today. > >Today (

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

2014-04-27 Thread peter green
Lennart Sorensen wrote: Why would you NOT use uImage? Why would you add an unnessacery conversion step if you have a bootloader capable of loading regular kernel images directly? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

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

2014-04-27 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 16:54 +0100, peter green wrote: > Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > Why would you NOT use uImage? > > > Why would you add an unnessacery conversion step if you have a > bootloader capable of loading regular kernel images directly? Exactly. We don't want to have to needlessly c

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

2014-04-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 07:35:35AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > No uImage is required for sunxi, u-boot can boot the vmlinuz file > directly. Besides flash-kernel converts vmlinuz to uImage nicely for you so it isn't a problem. The kernel package doesn't seem to ship uImage files for anything any

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

2014-04-27 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently working on better support for sunxi-based ARM systems > in d-i and flash-kernel. Thanks to Ian's backport of the sunxi AHCI > support from kernel 3.15rc1 into the Debian 3.14 kernel package (as > of linux-image-3.

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

2014-04-27 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 07:35 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sat, 2014-04-26 at 23:25 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > > I am currently working on better support for sunxi-based ARM systems > > in d-i and flash-kernel. I replied in a hurry earlier and forgot to say: Thanks! Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIB