Please disregard my previous message, I forgot to update flash-kernel. With flash-kernel from unstable, the dtb is correctly appended to the kernel.
Best regards, Jan On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:57 AM, JM <[email protected]> wrote: > I have attempted to selectively install linux-image-4.0.0-2-kirkwood from > unstable on QNAP-212P. > > This resulted in the following: > > > ## Booting image at 00800000 ... > Image Name: kernel 4.0.0-2-kirkwood > Created: 2015-05-28 18:37:03 UTC > Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) > Data Size: 2066352 Bytes = 2 MB > Load Address: 00008000 > Entry Point: 00008000 > Verifying Checksum ... OK > OK > > Starting kernel ... > > Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel. > > Error: unrecognized/unsupported machine ID (r1 = 0x0000085b). > > Available machine support: > > ID (hex) NAME > ffffffff Generic DT based system > ffffffff Marvell Kirkwood (Flattened Device Tree) > > Please check your kernel config and/or bootloader. > > > I don't really understand how Debian handles the passing of dtb files > (only legacy machine id? appends them to the kernel? points to the /boot/ > with dtbs?) or how to fix it, but in any case be warned that if you update > now, you may end up in the same situation. > > Best regards, > Jan >

