Missing virtio modules for sparc64
Hi all,
Recent versions of the debian-installer for sparc64 no longer contain
the virtio-modules included in the kernel used to boot the installer.
This makes it impossible to install Debian directly from a virtio CDROM
device.
Currently I have a set of patches of OpenBIOS (as used by QEMU) to add a
virtio-blk driver which will enable this functionality for both SPARC64
and PPC architectures, with the hope that I will be able to add
virtio-net support at a later date.
Please can you consider the attached patch for inclusion in the
debian-installer so that it becomes possible to perform a complete
sparc64 installation from virtio devices under QEMU?
Note: I also see that there is a related patch for PPC at
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=767487 which hasn't
been applied yet. Is there any chance that this could also be applied in
order to aid with my testing?
Many thanks,
Mark.
From 0268b0bada52d9a24a1e9329ac61dfa5fe730b96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 08:35:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] sparc64: add virtio modules to cdrom image
---
build/pkg-lists/cdrom/sparc64.cfg | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/build/pkg-lists/cdrom/sparc64.cfg b/build/pkg-lists/cdrom/sparc64.cfg
index de06b42..6947493 100644
--- a/build/pkg-lists/cdrom/sparc64.cfg
+++ b/build/pkg-lists/cdrom/sparc64.cfg
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ input-modules-${kernel:Version}
pata-modules-${kernel:Version}
usb-modules-${kernel:Version}
usb-storage-modules-${kernel:Version}
+virtio-modules-${kernel:Version}
scsi-common-modules-${kernel:Version} ?
scsi-modules-${kernel:Version}
--
1.7.10.4
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