[PATCH 14/25] arm: Remove sheevaplug board

Rick Thomas rick.thomas at pobox.com
Thu Feb 11 03:40:12 CET 2021



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 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.

Does that help?
Rick


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