Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)
Hi!
Great work here! :-) More comments inline...
On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 07:46:01PM +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote:
>I posted a while ago about graphical installer on arm64, here's an update.
>The first two patches I've attached are Wookey's patches with two module
>changes (noted in the patch message). The third one is to enable graphical
>cdrom builds, which I tested with the d-i bullseye alpha2 arm64 xfce CD-1
>image on both a QEMU virtual machine (via virt-manager) and my chromebook
>(rk3399-gru-kevin).
>
>On the VM: I've set the firmware to UEFI, mounted the iso file as a CD, and
>used my patched vmlinuz/initrd files with "Direct kernel boot". The
>installation went fine except I needed to pass "console=tty0" in the command
>line arguments, but that's not a problem in these patches (an ACPI SPCR table
>results in Linux not registering tty0 as a console).
ACK.
>On the chromebook: I've written the iso to a partition (/dev/sda1) and used
>my patched (also with chromebook stuff) vmlinuz/initrd/dtb to boot. There, I
>had to manually specify '/dev/sda1' as the cdrom device in the cdrom-detect
>step. It worked for the base-installer step, but not for the apt-setup step,
>but the installation continued anyway with a network mirror and finished with
>success. I don't know if that apt-setup problem is considered a bug, I
>probably wasn't supposed to use a partition as a cdrom.
That'll be exactly it, yes.
>I think these patches will work fine on other hardware as well (but I don't
>have anything else to test on). Thanks in advance if anyone can have a look.
...
>From 1bbfb902cb984d83b2bb1ac40524a526ee13cdcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Wookey <wookey@wookware.org>
>Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 03:13:40 +0000
>Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Add missing modules (usb, fat, virtio) to arm64 netboot
> build and xorg modules to netbook-gtk
>
>Alper Nebi Yasak:
>- added event-modules to arm64 netboot-gtk
>- commented-out serial-modules from arm64 netboot
So why comment out the serial modules here? Do they cause a problem?
>Signed-off-by: Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com>
>---
> build/pkg-lists/netboot/arm64.cfg | 15 ++++++++++++++-
> build/pkg-lists/netboot/gtk/arm64.cfg | 11 +++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> create mode 100644 build/pkg-lists/netboot/gtk/arm64.cfg
>
>diff --git a/build/pkg-lists/netboot/arm64.cfg b/build/pkg-lists/netboot/arm64.cfg
>index d5635daa9..01fe2b0a5 100644
>--- a/build/pkg-lists/netboot/arm64.cfg
>+++ b/build/pkg-lists/netboot/arm64.cfg
>@@ -11,9 +11,22 @@ nic-modules-${kernel:Version}
> nic-usb-modules-${kernel:Version}
> nic-wireless-modules-${kernel:Version}
> virtio-modules-${kernel:Version} ?
>+usb-modules-${kernel:Version}
>
> fb-modules-${kernel:Version} ?
> input-modules-${kernel:Version} ?
>
>-#for all targets
>+# In case they need to load a driver image.
>+mountmedia
>+media-retriever
>+fat-modules-${kernel:Version}
>+usb-storage-modules-${kernel:Version}
>+mmc-modules-${kernel:Version} ?
>+
>+# brltty
>+brltty-udeb
>+# serial-modules-${kernel:Version} ?
>+usb-serial-modules-${kernel:Version} ?
>+uinput-modules-${kernel:Version} ?
>
>+#for all targets
>diff --git a/build/pkg-lists/netboot/gtk/arm64.cfg b/build/pkg-lists/netboot/gtk/arm64.cfg
>new file mode 100644
>index 000000000..bda77cdab
>--- /dev/null
>+++ b/build/pkg-lists/netboot/gtk/arm64.cfg
>@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
>+#include "gtk-linux"
>+
>+#mouse-modules-${kernel:Version}
>+event-modules-${kernel:Version}
>+xserver-xorg-input-evdev-udeb
>+xserver-xorg-video-fbdev-udeb
>+
>+#speakup-modules-${kernel:Version}
>+#sound-modules-${kernel:Version}
>+#console-setup-linux-fonts-udeb
>+#espeakup-udeb
>--
>2.26.0
>
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