Hi

10 days ago one of first https://www.crowdsupply.com/gnubee/personal-cloud-1 systems arrived at my home and is now running happily my preferred Linux distribution Debian. I put on a small web page for it under http://gnubee.org/ index.html.

I am however not satisfied with the situation on how my Debian boots, why relies on out of the tree https://github.com/gnubee-git/GnuBee_PCx_uboot boots initram from a fork of the LEDE (itself a OpenWRT fork) from https:// github.com/gnubee-git/GnuBee-lede, which uses then a root partition created with debootstrap.

One of the steps to support this board fully under Debian would be bringing its U-Boot code into mainline U-Boot, which takes some time and effort.

As I added 10 years ago two PPC4xx based boards to U-Boot, I think this is a doable task for me.

Before working on my clone of git://git.denx.de/u-boot-mpc5xxx.git I would however ask, whether patches with source code GnuBee_PCx_uboot would be accepted as I am clearly NOT the copyright owner of it.

Best regards

Niklaus