On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Karsten Merker merker@debian.org wrote:

Hello,

I am currently working on better support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i and flash-kernel. Thanks to Ian's backport of the sunxi AHCI support from kernel 3.15rc1 into the Debian 3.14 kernel package (as of linux-image-3.14-trunk-armmp_3.14.1-1~exp2_armhf.deb, currently only available as source in git) it is now possible to run d-i on Allwinner A10/A20-based systems like the Cubie{board,board2,truck}.

hoooraaaaay! congratulations. this is an awesome strategic achievement. it will not stop people doing stupid things like forcing their personal preferred settings onto others when distributing ridiculously large (4gbyte) fixed size root images but it at least provides an alternative... one that is a sub-5mbyte alternative at that.

do you have a pre-built option or some instructions for people to follow?

l.