Graphical installer on arm64
I've been working on getting Debian installer to run on my chromebook
(kevin) for a while and I've also tested Wookey's patches [1] for
enabling the graphical parts. The inputs didn't work with just those
udebs as reported then, but adding 'event-modules-${kernel:Version}' as
well to the pkg-list fixed that for me.
I also had to add device-specific modules to appropriate udebs, but my
chromebook's keyboard, touchpad (only the buttons), touchscreen, pen and
a wireless USB mouse works in my tested build.
Can anyone else test this on other arm64 machines? I'm pretty sure it
would work, but I suspect chromebook hardware to be weird so my success
might not be indicative of general success.
AFAIK similar changes are needed for other installer types and I intend
to eventually work on those (though not immediately), unless someone
else does it first (in which case I'd be glad to help if I can). Other
than that, is there anything missing for these patches to be merged?
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2019/01/msg00183.html
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