Re: d-i Alpha 3 seems unusable for qemu-system-aarch64
On 08/12/2020 13:30, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> W dniu 08.12.2020 o 11:13, Alper Nebi Yasak pisze:
>> On 08/12/2020 12:26, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
>
>>> Both standard and graphical installer contain kernel modules for virtio
>>> framebuffer. And both ignore video output forcing user to use serial
>>> console. Also while 'standard' installer gives "d-i in screen",
>>> graphical one gave just d-i on serial console.
>>>
>>> /proc/consoles has only ttyAMA0
>>
>> This only happens on arm64 ACPI systems with SPCR (QEMU VM is one) now.
>> The arm64 graphical installer should be working fine in this release
>> with device-tree systems, which do have tty0 in /proc/consoles.
>
> So maybe there should be message "Debian is for SBC, please use
> $OTHER_DISTRO for servers/etc" on d-i website?
I didn't mean that. On the contrary, I'm someone trying to fix it.
>> You can still work around it with "console=tty0". Even more, the ACPI
>> case is fixed on git (by explicitly checking /dev/tty0), but that didn't
>> make into this alpha release.
>
> D-I has issues with AArch64/ACPI systems since probably forever.
No idea about those.
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