On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 11:13:13 -0600 Gunnar Wolf <gw...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hello Aaron, > > Aaron Rainbolt dijo [Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 02:31:02PM -0500]: > >Some time ago, I did a lot of work on getting a U-Boot + > >grub-efi-arm64 boot flow to work on the Raspberry Pi 4 with Debian. > >I was able to get a proof-of-concept implementation to work > >correctly, and was interested in upstreaming my work to Debian if it > >was welcome. To that end, I attempted to reach the team taking care > >of Raspberry Pi support maintenance in Debian in a few different > >ways. [1] [2] [3] [4] So far I haven't gotten much of a response on > >any platform. > > (...) > > I'm sorry for not having replied in all of this time; I would be the > person that took charge of building the RPi images and getting them > to support all of the (then-)available platforms. In my defense, > FWIW, I asked the community⢠at large for help adopting it close to > two years ago: > > > https://gwolf.org/2023/08/interested-in-adopting-the-rpi-images-for-debian.html > > I am sure I also offered it in several Debian-hosted places, but this > is the one I found first. > > >Obviously, I would like to see this feature in upstream Debian at > >some point, which is why I did the work to see if it could be done. > > The good news is... We have good news! đ I am Cc:ing this mail to > Kurva Prashanth, our GSoC contributor who is working in getting the > RPi images generation back in shape. And the good news is that he has > already implemented the bits you need, using flash-kernel and u-boot. Nice, that sounds awesome! > And, thanks to the work Andrew Cater and Steve McIntyre have been > doing and that we took time to iron out together, I have a clear view > of what do we need to do to get the images building again in a > reliable fashion soonâ˘. > > Of course... What does "soonâ˘" mean? I would like to tie it to the > GSoC project duration, so that would be in the next couple of months. > Naturally, if you want to work closer together with Kurva... it's a > net win for us all! I'm not entirely sure my job can allocate my time to that, but I can ask. Thanks for offering to let me help! -- Aaron > Please note I'm answering to this first mail (I had mostly not read > debian-devel since mid-June as I was preparing many things for our > trip to DebConf); I am aware several people have answered, and will > be reading up on their answers as well shortly.
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