[Gta04-owner] Debian Status

[Andreas Kemnade]

Hi,

On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 15:19:25 +0100
Josua Mayer <josua.mayer97 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> I wanted to give you a short report on where we are regarding standard
> unpatched Debian Stretch:
> - it boots all the way to login prompt (first seen with linux-4.8)
> - wifi works sort of (since 4.9.0-1-armmp)
>   Meaning that at boot-time systemd fails to bring up networking
> because libertas_sdio comes up late.
>   Is there anything we can do about it?
> - system does not charge the battery!!!
>   Both /sys/class/power_supply/twl4030_{ac,usb}/status report "Not
> charging" Probably needs udev rule. Why again do we need a rule for
> this? The log has the output of lsmod, perhaps someone can spot a
> missing piece?

Hmm, no g_* like g_ether, I am not totally sure if that is needed in
mainline. But that might influence charging. And having usb-networking
would be certainly nice.

> - debian-installer made little progress, just some information has
> been collected:
>   the debian wiki for building installer images work fine, and there
> are 2 targets worth investigating:
>   hd_media, netinst-gtk
>   The resulting images are self-contained and *only* carry kernel, dtb
> and installer-in-a-ramdisk. No appended iso or package tree.
>   By using qemu I have found that this installer looks for an actual
> .iso file within any available filesystem on any disk.
>   Writing the iso directly to a partition does not work, for some
> reason a filesystem is required to hold the .iso file.
>   Creating such iso is a very hard task! The suggested tool debian-cd
> is overkill and under-documented.
>   Instead it might be smarter to use tools such as live-image or boxer
> to create an iso with a set of preselected .debs.
> 
What I am still wondering about is some approach booting the GTA04 via
pusb / dfu-utils into the debian-installer and then load the packages
via an apt-cacher on the device the gta04 is attached to or something
like that. But I do not understand yet exactly what kind of MLO pusb
likes. I had one once. But that one was probably deleted by a git clean
-xfd or something like that.

Regards,
ANdreas


> br
> Josua Mayer
> 

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