Package: linux Severity: wishlist Hey,
The ARM linux image packages install DTB files in /usr/lib/<kernel version>/, as a DTB is required to boot most modern arm systems typically the right file has to be copied to a bootloader accessible filesystem before usage (e.g. /boot). On current Debian systems this tends to be done by flash-kernel. This ofcourse works fine for device-specific images, however for generic ARM images that's pretty nasty. I've recently started using the newish u-boot generic distro support on my boards[0], which among other things allows one to simply specify a directory containing the DTB files and u-boot will pick the right one based on the board it's booting on.. Allowing generic images to be booted on boards where u-boot is in e.g. flash. Ofcourse, this means all potentially used dtb files should be on a boot-loader accessible partition, not just one specific board. As such the request to install dtb files in /boot, which also follows the convention in the upstream build system. For reference when using linux-image-3.19.0-trunk-armmp this would add ~8 mbyte of dtb files to /boot, current linux-next's multi_v7 configuration generates around ~11 mbyte of dtb files. 0: http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.distro;hb=HEAD -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf, armel Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
