[PATCH 14/25] arm: Remove sheevaplug board

[Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>]

On 2021-02-10, Rick Thomas wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2021, at 5:55 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 05:01:47PM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021, at 12:15 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>> > > I assume that however you're building U-Boot the warnings that get
>> > > printed about conversion deadlines having come and gone are hidden in
>> > > some way or another.

I definitely see some warnings in the build logs, but try to get other
people to help with testing and maintaining them in Debian and for most
boards there is someone listed who has offered to test new versions:

  https://salsa.debian.org/debian/u-boot/-/blob/master/debian/targets

Unfortunately, mostly I only have evidence of boards I and a few other
people have tested:

  https://wiki.debian.org/U-boot/Status

If you use Debian and want the u-boot package to work for your favorite
platform working the next release, it would be a really good time to
test the packaged u-boot in Debian bullseye Real Soon Now. :)


>> > I used to have my sheevaplug's serial console hooked up to a nearby
>> > PC.  But the PC died a year or so ago, so I don't have any way to
>> > watch the messages at boot time.  If I need to reboot it, I just
>> > ssh to it, type "sudo shutdown -r now" and pray.  It hasn't failed
>> > me yet (knock wood!).  If it starts to fail, I'll have to find
>> > another PC to hook up the serial console to, but I figure I'll
>> > cross that bridge when I come to it.
>> > 
>> > Now, if anybody wanted me to test a new bit of software on it, I'd
>> > have some incentive.
>> 
>> To be clear, have you been updating U-Boot on the device?
>
> I'm not sure.  If it helps, here's what aptitude thinks is installed:
>
> rbthomas at sheeva:~$ aptitude versions u-boot
> i   2019.01+dfsg-7  stable  500 
>
> I have not recently (since before 2019) done anything more than allow
> aptitude to upgrade packages as it thinks best.  In particular, I have
> not made any attempt to burn new firmware on the device.

The debian u-boot packages do not automatically upgrade the u-boot
installed to the device; it requires manual intervention on the part of
the system administrator above and beyond just upgrading the debian
packages through apt, aptitude, etc.

I think u-boot upstream is talking about dropping it for 2021.04, so my
guess is you would still have another entire debian release cycle with
the available 2021.01 version of u-boot *if* that version still works...


live well,
  vagrant
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