On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 03:56:35PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: > The diff below splits off the 32-bit ARM Allwinner SoCs and updates > them to U-Boot 2024.01. I've tested this on a few of my armv7 boards > and I'm pretty confident it doesn't break any of them. > > Theo, this has consequences for the armv7 miniroots as the "cubie" > variant includes firmwares that move from u-boot-arm to u-boot-sunxi. > There are a few possibilities to handle this: > > * You (and other folks building releases) install the new packages by hand. > > * We add some ports magic such that updating the u-boot-arm package > will also install the new u-boot-sunxi package. Stuart told me how > to do that somewhat recently. > > * We drop the "cubie" miniroot. > > I'm somewhat leaning towards the last option myself. Very few people > own a cubieboard so it isn't really helping people. In fact I'm very > much inclined to move armv7 to a single miniroot image in the long > run. > > Thoughts?
I agree it can go. The cubie miniroot is specifically for the Allwinner A20 based Cubieboard 2 (changed from A10 Cubieboard in 2016).
