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).
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