Installing Debian sid/unstable on a BeagleBone (white).

Reading the README on Robert Nelson's netinstall github site I see
that I can install wheezy, but no mention is made of sid. I need
sid as I need a 3.10 kernel (there is device driver which only
appeared in 3.10 for a USB device which I want to use).

Can I install sid, or do I need to install wheezy and then upgrade
it to sid (which on an SD card could be slow)?

David

Reading the README on Robert Nelson's netinstall github site I see
that I can install wheezy, but no mention is made of sid. I need

Since my 'NetInstall' script uses debian's infrastructure directly, I
have to wait for them to 'build' the installer & udeb's backend.

For arm & most of the non-x86 ports this only occurs on released
images and 'testing' shortly before the release. So right now we can
just install wheezy thru this method.

http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-armhf/

sid as I need a 3.10 kernel (there is device driver which only
appeared in 3.10 for a USB device which I want to use).

You can run "3.10" on wheezy just fine.. Infact i have directions
right here for v3.11-rcX on the beagleboard on wheezy..

http://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBoard

Can I install sid, or do I need to install wheezy and then upgrade
it to sid (which on an SD card could be slow)?

Regards,

NM, brain fart, wrong board... For the beaglebone, we have a 3.11-rcX
based kernel but USB is broken.

Regards,

>> Reading the README on Robert Nelson's netinstall github site I see
>> that I can install wheezy, but no mention is made of sid. I need
>
> Since my 'NetInstall' script uses debian's infrastructure directly, I
> have to wait for them to 'build' the installer & udeb's backend.

I might try building it using debootstrap - that is what I normally use
for such things where I am building a flash/SD card. But I will obviously
need to partition the card right, and put in uBoot etc.

>
> For arm & most of the non-x86 ports this only occurs on released
> images and 'testing' shortly before the release. So right now we can
> just install wheezy thru this method.
>
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-armhf/
>
>> sid as I need a 3.10 kernel (there is device driver which only
>> appeared in 3.10 for a USB device which I want to use).
>
> You can run "3.10" on wheezy just fine.. Infact i have directions
> right here for v3.11-rcX on the beagleboard on wheezy..
>
> http://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBoard
>
>> Can I install sid, or do I need to install wheezy and then upgrade
>> it to sid (which on an SD card could be slow)?

NM, brain fart, wrong board... For the beaglebone, we have a 3.11-rcX
based kernel but USB is broken.

That's a shame as it is a USB device I want to run. I will have to wait
for the USB broken-ness to be fixed. Is the broken-ness 3.11 specific,
or does the 3.10 kernel work.

David

The omap linux list (linux-omap@vger.kernel.org) has been full of USB
driver patches and rewrites...it seems like that's the bulk of the
traffic. I'd ask there, but from the bits I scanned it seems like the
entire PHY architecture is changing to align much better with the way
the kernel does things now.

The folks on the omap list can probably recommend a working USB
driver/kernel combination for 3.10 or newer kernels, although you might
still need to apply some BeagleBone specific patches. I'm not sure how
many of the 'Bone kernel mods have made it to mainline.

Those patches/rewrites should enable usb out of the box for v3.12-rc0
for the beaglebone. Or get us 95% of the way there...

Regards,

Any timeline as to when 3.12-rc0 will be available ?

I think the least pain will be to wait for 3.12 to quieten down and
then install that.

Thanks

David

5-6 weeks if linus does a 3.11-rc8, one less if rc7...

Regards,

Very nice. thank you.