Re: Kernel and d-i status update, u-boot for riscv64

[Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@debian.org>]

Hi, Karsten.

Thanks for your update information.

BTW, as I read your email, I understood that the riscv team is working
towards the buster 's official support architecture.
Is my understanding correct?

Best regards,
  Nobuhiro

2018年10月17日(水) 5:50 Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org>:
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> I just wanted to provide a short update regarding some current
> developments:
>
> - Since a few days we have support for building regular riscv64
>   kernel images and corresponding udebs in the Debian kernel git
>   repository.  The resulting kernel-image package has been
>   running rock-solid in qemu for about a week now.
>
> - I've started adding riscv64 support to the Debian-Installer.
>   The code isn't upstream yet as I still need to work on a number
>   of points, but so far things are looking promising.
>
>   There is of course still the general problem that debootstrap
>   fails due to systemd and libffi only being available in
>   unreleased, so d-i can't successfully finish the "installing
>   the base system" phase.  For systemd this will hopefully be
>   resolved soon thanks to Manuel's work, but for libffi we have
>   to wait for a new upstream release and there is no indication
>   when that will happen.
>
> - There is ongoing work to add support for the qemu RISC-V "virt"
>   board to u-boot, which brings us a big step nearer to having
>   a "proper" bootloader inside a riscv64 VM.
>
> Regards,
> Karsten
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