Re: Is the sh7785lcr kernel still useful?

From	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.ports.superh, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Re: Is the sh7785lcr kernel still useful?
Date	2024-09-15 18:30 +0200
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On Sun, 2024-09-15 at 08:00 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Sun, 2024-09-15 at 00:10 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > I've done a new cross-build here, so you can test the packages from:
> > https://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/linux-sh4/
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> I installed the new kernel package and it seems it won't work as it's not
> an U-Boot image as required but just a plain compressed kernel image:
[...]

We never install a uImage as /boot/vmlinu[xz]-*.  From the very
beginning of the sh4 port in <https://bugs.debian.org/569034>, we've
built a zImage for this flavour even though the upstream default is a
uImage.

If it's necessary to install a uImage somewhere then that tends to be
done by flash-kernel, but I don't see any sign of sh4 support there. 
It rather seems like this board was never properly supported in Debian.

If you're interested in fixing that, then please:

- Do the uImage conversion and installation manually and test the
result.
- If it works, add a configuration for this board to flash-kernel.

Otherwise, let me know and I can delete this flavour.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If the facts do not conform to your theory, they must be disposed of.

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Is the sh7785lcr kernel still useful? Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2024-07-20 00:40 +0200
  Re: Is the sh7785lcr kernel still useful? John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2024-07-20 21:50 +0200
    Re: Is the sh7785lcr kernel still useful? Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2024-07-21 15:20 +0200
      Re: Is the sh7785lcr kernel still useful? John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2024-07-23 15:00 +0200
        Re: Is the sh7785lcr kernel still useful? Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2024-09-10 21:20 +0200
          Re: Is the sh7785lcr kernel still useful? John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2024-09-10 21:30 +0200
            Re: Is the sh7785lcr kernel still useful? Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2024-09-10 21:50 +0200
              Re: Is the sh7785lcr kernel still useful? John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2024-09-11 12:30 +0200
                Re: Is the sh7785lcr kernel still useful? Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2024-09-11 17:00 +0200
                Re: Is the sh7785lcr kernel still useful? John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2024-09-11 17:20 +0200
                Re: Is the sh7785lcr kernel still useful? John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2024-09-13 18:00 +0200
                Re: Is the sh7785lcr kernel still useful? Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2024-09-15 00:20 +0200
                Re: Is the sh7785lcr kernel still useful? John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2024-09-15 08:10 +0200
                Re: Is the sh7785lcr kernel still useful? Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2024-09-15 18:30 +0200

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