Re: Emdebian sprint - flash-kernel discussion

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Hudson-Doyle
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:57:31 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011, James Westby wrote: > > How would this interact with the proposal for storing some of this > > information in hwpacks? > > This came up; basically linaro-image-tools + hwpacks are one of the > many copies of this in

Re: Emdebian sprint - flash-kernel discussion

2011-02-23 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:32:29 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > Did you have something specific in mind? Nope. Thanks, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.or

Re: Emdebian sprint - flash-kernel discussion

2011-02-23 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011, James Westby wrote: > So longer term we should be thinking of having the hwpack generation > read some information from the common files corresponding to the > versions it is building for (e.g. grab the package containing the common > files and look for the one with a specific

Re: Emdebian sprint - flash-kernel discussion

2011-02-23 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:57:31 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > I'm not sure; for instance consider the case of data which changes with > the distro over time; let's say linaro-image-tools depends on that data > and combines the data + 1 hwpack + 1 rootfs to create an image. Then > the data changes,

Re: Emdebian sprint - flash-kernel discussion

2011-02-23 Thread James Westby
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:54:38 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote: > > I ask mostly from a position of ignorance, but is the information in > > this database related to the information linaro-media-create keeps about > > each board? If so, could it be share

Re: Emdebian sprint - flash-kernel discussion

2011-02-23 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011, James Westby wrote: > How would this interact with the proposal for storing some of this > information in hwpacks? This came up; basically linaro-image-tools + hwpacks are one of the many copies of this information which we have around. It will take some time to share thi

Re: Emdebian sprint - flash-kernel discussion

2011-02-23 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011, Andy Green wrote: > Over the longer term I think it could be possible to arrange things that > - hwpacks as they are > - initrds, and > - Qemu requirement for image composition, maybe whole l-m-c > could in most or all cases be dispensed with. In that situation > l-m-c its

Re: Emdebian sprint - flash-kernel discussion

2011-02-22 Thread Andy Green
On 02/22/2011 09:54 PM, Somebody in the thread at some point said: Hi - I ask mostly from a position of ignorance, but is the information in this database related to the information linaro-media-create keeps about each board? If so, could it be shared somehow? It's completely related and I

Re: Emdebian sprint - flash-kernel discussion

2011-02-22 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote: > I ask mostly from a position of ignorance, but is the information in > this database related to the information linaro-media-create keeps about > each board? If so, could it be shared somehow? It's completely related and I envisioned we could s

Re: Emdebian sprint - flash-kernel discussion

2011-02-22 Thread Michael Hudson-Doyle
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:59:05 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > [1] branch at http://git.debian.org/?p=users/lool/d-i/flash-kernel.git > * adds a testsuite > * consolidates code into functions > * moves board support data into a database (currently inline for >convenience of testing, but will be

Re: Emdebian sprint - flash-kernel discussion

2011-02-22 Thread Loïc Minier
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011, Amit Kucheria wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Loïc Minier wrote: > >  * moves board support data into a database (currently inline for > >   convenience of testing, but will be split out in its own file) > Does it make sense to move this 'database' out to /etc/board

Re: Emdebian sprint - flash-kernel discussion

2011-02-22 Thread Amit Kucheria
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Loïc Minier wrote: > [1] branch at http://git.debian.org/?p=users/lool/d-i/flash-kernel.git >  * adds a testsuite >  * consolidates code into functions >  * moves board support data into a database (currently inline for >   convenience of testing, but will be spli

Emdebian sprint - flash-kernel discussion

2011-02-22 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi there flash-kernel is this place where we add support for a lot of weird boards of various architectures. "flash-kernel" because it used to just write a kernel to Flash memory, but that's not always true anymore. Because it's integrated in d-i and with initramfs-tools / linux pac