Re: [mipsel-manda-01.debian.org] lemote-3a-itx-a1101 kernel boot issues

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Paul Wise <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 12:25 +0800, Aron Xu wrote:
>
>> Latest version for the 1101 series could be this one:
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
>> I don't think pmon is at a state that suitable for packaging because
>> lemote to be maintaining separate branches of pmon for different
>> version of hardware.
>
> Sounds like we need Lemote and other hardware producers to collaborate
> on creating one version of pmon that supports various hardware devices.
>

That's happening, and AFAIK it's the reason we are having this
incompatible kernel change to provide a unified interface.

>> Also, it's something BIOS-like, and personally I don't think we shall
>> take the blame if an update brick someone's hardware.
>
> We have u-boot in Debian, which is similar.
>

u-boot source provides a u-boot-tools package, guess that's more
important than u-boot as a bootloader.

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Regards,
Aron Xu