On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 09:40:42PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 19:03 +0100, William Boughton wrote:
[...] > In order to support partial upgrades and going back to an old kernel > this needs to be made conditional, ideally using the same infrastructure > I proposed in the patch I sent to #731345 last night (message id > <1389216502.7769.40.ca...@hastur.hellion.org.uk>). > > After applying that patch changing your "DTB-Append: yes" to > "DTB-Append-From: 3.12" should be sufficient. If you could try that in > some of the scenarios I mention in that mail then I would be most > grateful. Okay tried some variations, and it seems to work. Including no DTB appended on 3.11 where it isn't needed, reinstalling 3.12, after a purge not tested with 3.13 there is no build yet for kirkwood. > [...] > > This correctly appends the dtb and 3.12-1-kirkwood boots here on a guruplug > > server plus. > > also tested on wheezy with linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-kirkwood and > > linux-image-3.10-3-kirkwood which boots and seems to work including > > ethernet. > > Just to confirm -- 3.12 is the first version which absolutely requires > the appended DTB? The others work either because their DTB support was > sufficient or because they ignored it in favour of the board file > support? Yes > If that is the case then I think DTB-Append-From: 3.12 is the right > choice. Yeah i noticed this DTB stuff when 3.12 broke 3.11 in jessie worked fine using board support. > > I don't know if there are other models of guruplug, there only seems > > to be a single guruplug dtb. > This is something which will need to be solved for other platforms, I've > got some vague ideas how to do it, but hopefully the guruplug won't be > affected. Yeah i also have a dreamplug, which appears to be already supported in theory :), but in practice will probably also want a DTB-Append-From: Bill -- Bill Boughton <b...@boughton.eu> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
