installer lacks support for Calxeda ECX-2000

[Andre Przywara]

On a Calxeda ECX-2000 (aka Midway) system the device tree model name is different than that on Highbank, so the installer reports "unknown" instead of the expected "generic".
Easy fix is to add a matching line for Midway. The name comes from the kernel device tree: arch/arm/boot/dts/ecx-2000.dts

[dann frazier (dannf)]

fwiw, I *think* the plan is to make libdebian-installer return to exposing the real subarch (highbank, vs. generic), and add the logic to base-installer to know that -generic is the right flavor for a given subarch.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[Paolo Pisati (p-pisati)]

i can't comment on future plan for S+, but we need this fix to enable this hw on R, can we get it commited since it's a trivial modification?

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed' to 'verification-done'.

If verification is not done by one week from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

There is no prior support ECX-2000 thus this change cannot regress the state on ECX-2000.
Uploading same change into saucy, such that both behave the same, for now.

Brian, will you accept this package into raring-proposed please?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libdebian-installer - 0.87ubuntu2

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libdebian-installer (0.87ubuntu2) saucy; urgency=low

  * Add Calxedda ECX-2000 support. (LP: #1196946)
 -- Dmitrijs Ledkovs <email address hidden> Wed, 21 Aug 2013 23:35:25 +0100

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Andre, or anyone else affected,

Accepted libdebian-installer into raring-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdebian-installer/0.85ubuntu3.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Rob Herring (r-herring)]

How do I verify without updated kernel and installer initrd? The install does not appear to pick up the new libdebian-installer. There is also a kernel fix already in raring, but not in the install kernel that is needed for ECX-2000.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

From Brian Murray's comment:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed

Use netboot installer from -proposed:
http://ports.ubuntu.com/dists/raring-proposed/main/installer-armhf/

Boot with the following boot arg:
apt-setup/proposed=true

That should use updated udebs (e.g. libdebian-installer from -proposed).

What kernel are you after? 3.8.0-30.44 ?

[Rob Herring (r-herring)]

I have proposed enabled in my preseed and the installer is as specified (which is from Apr 19). Attaching the syslog. There is no indication it has loaded libdebian-installer.

Midway needs 3.8.0-28.41 or later.

[Rob Herring (r-herring)]

syslog from netinstall on Midway.

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Talked to Rob in person, and he concluded that they don't need this in raring, but they *do* need this in precise for the lts-* backports kernels.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Rob: There's a new installer image in raring-proposed now - URL as earlier, e.g. comment #10. If you could test that would be great. I know raring is about to go EOL, but it would be nice to clear this out first if possible. :-)

[Rob Herring (r-herring)]

Have any hardware for me? :)

Andre still has h/w.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

raring has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the raring task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".