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| author | Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org> | 2014-03-20 19:29:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org> | 2014-03-20 19:29:54 +0000 |
| commit | b9864636478c2d4fe1d59f7bf0e5e2b29f205e87 (patch) | |
| tree | da4eb76869a5d1600155046afaf9fea9ae1c4462 /en/preparing | |
| parent | 3240732cbcf939b2448d29a60ec93764ef3c8122 (diff) | |
| download | installation-guide-b9864636478c2d4fe1d59f7bf0e5e2b29f205e87.zip | |
installation-guide:
Add an "ARM firmware" subsection in the "Pre-Installation
Hardware and Operating System Setup" section.
Diffstat (limited to 'en/preparing')
| -rw-r--r-- | en/preparing/bios-setup/arm.xml | 29 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | en/preparing/pre-install-bios-setup.xml | 1 |
2 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/en/preparing/bios-setup/arm.xml b/en/preparing/bios-setup/arm.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..24c2a0818 --- /dev/null +++ b/en/preparing/bios-setup/arm.xml @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +<!-- retain these comments for translator revision tracking --> +<!-- $Id: sparc.xml 43641 2006-12-29 05:23:38Z fjp $ --> + + + <sect2 arch="arm" id="arm-firmware-overview"><title>ARM firmware</title> + + <para> + As already mentioned before, there is unfortunately no standard for + system firmware on ARM systems. Even the behaviour of different + systems which use nominally the same firmware can be quite different. + This results from the fact that a large part of the devices using the + ARM architecture are embedded systems, for which the manufacturers + usually build heavily customized firmware versions and include + device-specific patches. Unfortunately the manufacturers often do not + submit their changes and extensions back to the mainline firmware + developers, so their changes are not integrated into newer versions of + the original firmware. + </para> + <para> + As a result even newly sold systems often use a firmware that is based + on a years-old manufacturer-modified version of a firmware whose + mainline codebase has evolved a lot further in the meantime and offers + additional features or shows different behaviour in certain aspects. + In addition to that, the naming of onboard devices is not consistent + between different manufacturer-modified versions of the same firmware, + therefore it is nearly impossible to provide usable + product-independend instructions for ARM-based systems. + </para> + </sect2> diff --git a/en/preparing/pre-install-bios-setup.xml b/en/preparing/pre-install-bios-setup.xml index 1146432c1..32e3611e4 100644 --- a/en/preparing/pre-install-bios-setup.xml +++ b/en/preparing/pre-install-bios-setup.xml @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ hardware; it is most critically invoked during the bootstrap process &bios-setup-powerpc.xml; &bios-setup-sparc.xml; &bios-setup-s390.xml; +&bios-setup-arm.xml; <sect2 arch="x86;powerpc" id="hardware-issues"> <title>Hardware Issues to Watch Out For</title> |