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[bug#30216] [WIP] system: Add ARM installer; services: agetty: Make tty
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
[bug#30216] [WIP] system: Add ARM installer; services: agetty: Make tty optional |
Date: |
Thu, 25 Jan 2018 15:56:26 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hello!
Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:
> I hope it's not that board-specific. There are minimal differences but
> many ARM boards use the same Linux kernel (with the same config).
>
> This was one of the motivation to create u-boot: u-boot is like a
> board-specific mini-Linux kernel. The Linux kernel that u-boot then
> loads later is not board-specific.
>
> In the past, board vendors kept putting huge board configuration tables inside
> Linux until Linus put a stop to it.
>
> Nowadays it should not be the case anymore that Linux is board-specific.
Understood.
> Therefore, I think it would be preferrable in the long run if
> Hydra didn't build 1000 different 1 GB images for different boards
> where the only different part is u-boot.
Definitely!
> So long story short, about 99% of the image this arm-installer generates
> will work and be identical for almost every ARMv7 board, except for u-boot
> (u-boot is kinda important, though).
Yes, but… this 1% is enough to make a non-bootable image though, which
is what I’m concerned with. :-)
I suppose fixing it would mean having a universal ARM U-Boot? Or do you
have other solutions in mind?
Ludo’.
[bug#30216] [FIXME] system: Add ARM installer., Ludovic Courtès, 2018/01/23