11:42 <Armbian-Discord> <p​mp-p> i do, what do you want to know ?

14:37 <Armbian-Discord> <r​pardini> hey. FEL is dead code and scheduled to be removed from armbian-next... unless...

14:37 <Armbian-Discord> <r​pardini> - can you provide the full, host-side, Armbian logfile when FEL booting?

14:37 <Armbian-Discord> <r​pardini> - can you dump the communications with the device during boot?

14:37 <Armbian-Discord> <r​pardini> - would you be interested in re-adding support for FEL (as an extension) and maintaining it over time?

15:05 <Armbian-Discord> <p​mp-p> dunno what you mean exactly, maybe it's specific code in inited ? i'm using FEL+usb booting and sometimes ethernet other lan or usb via ata over ethernet that igor added at my request quite a long time ago

15:06 <Armbian-Discord> <p​mp-p> server part of fel booter https://github.com/pmp-p/fel-installer

15:09 <Armbian-Discord> <r​pardini> what I mean is that armbian/build has some mechanism for doing FEL boot "during the build".

15:09 <Armbian-Discord> <r​pardini> that's clunky/hacky -- I was wondering if there's a cleaner/simpler/good-enough way, like simply outputting the required artifacts (which? rootfs / kernel / ...) and let user "fire off" the FEL boot using some external tool?

15:10 <Armbian-Discord> <p​mp-p> ha i see basically feeding build artefacts directly to fel-installer

15:11 <Armbian-Discord> <p​mp-p> kernel+initrd

15:12 <Armbian-Discord> <r​pardini> yeah, and to remove https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/armbian-next/lib/functions/extras/fel.sh (has been removed already, not-yet-pushed)

15:13 <Armbian-Discord> <p​mp-p> should be easy to do fel-installer is just a python script, and i'm not sure you would need the horrible win32 support

15:14 <Armbian-Discord> <r​pardini> I can't grok how NFS is involved in that, or how an NFS server inside Docker would even ever work.

15:16 <Armbian-Discord> <p​mp-p> sure i don't use nfs, ata over ethernet is the way to go

15:16 <Armbian-Discord> <p​mp-p> or nbd

15:17 <Armbian-Discord> <r​pardini> do you actually exercise that code in armbian/build at all?

15:18 <Armbian-Discord> <r​pardini> I guess it's triggered by something like ROOTFS_TYPE=fel or the like

15:18 <Armbian-Discord> <p​mp-p> nope i'm not doing armbian at the moment, but i intend to go back to it after 18/02, so tell me what is needed and i'll look to it

15:18 <Armbian-Discord> <r​pardini> oh, ok. that's what I meant by "anyone using sunxi's FEL boot?" -- using it in Armbian, I meant.

15:19 <Armbian-Discord> <p​mp-p> ok then for me it's a no 🙂

15:19 <Armbian-Discord> <p​mp-p> bbl

15:20 <Armbian-Discord> <r​pardini> if you have time, think what would be the ideal set of outputs for an Armbian build that makes it convenient for (later/separately) firing off a FEL boot without having to jump through hoops -- seems like a good compromise