Control: reassign -1 libdebian-installer 0.110 Control: affects -1 debian-installer-9-netboot-mips64el Bruno Bierbaumer <list@bierbaumer.net> (2017-06-21):² > Package: debian-installer-9-netboot-mips64el > Severity: normal > Tags: d-i > > Dear Maintainer, > > I wanted to install Debian Stretch mips64el in QEMU. > It seems that the netboot installer can't find any installable kernel for this architecture. > There is definitely linux-images for 5kc-malta in the repo and the same install procedure worked for both mips and mipsel. > > Steps to reproduce: > > qemu-system-mips64el -M malta -m 256 -cpu MIPS64R2-generic \ > -drive file=hda.qcow2,if=virtio,format=qcow2,index=0 \ > -kernel vmlinux-4.9.0-3-5kc-malta \ > -initrd initrd.gz \ > -net user,hostfwd=tcp::22222-:22 \ > -net nic \ > -nographic \ > -append "nokaslr" > > The installer will show the error: No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources Some info about this: ~ # archdetect mips64el/unknown and “unknown” is why base-installer isn't able to pick the right kernel. Looking at the hwmap structure in src/system/subarch-mips-linux.c (from the libdebian-installer package), where architecture detection happens, I initially thought we were missing some MIPS64 pattern there, but that doesn't seem the case, as /proc/cpuinfo reports this: | system type : MIPS Malta … | cpu model : MIPS GENERIC QEMU V0.0 FPU V0.0 (Full contents below for reference.) and those are the ones which are searched through the hwmap… I'm not sure how to fix libdebian-installer here, adding debian-mips@ and qemu maintainers in copy. It might make sense to update the bug report title as well at some point, since this is likely an issue on QEMU only? KiBi. ---- ~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo system type : MIPS Malta machine : mti,malta processor : 0 cpu model : MIPS GENERIC QEMU V0.0 FPU V0.0 BogoMIPS : 1271.80 wait instruction : yes microsecond timers : yes tlb_entries : 64 extra interrupt vector : yes hardware watchpoint : yes, count: 1, address/irw mask: [0x0ff8] isa : mips1 mips2 mips3 mips4 mips5 mips32r1 mips32r2 mips64r1 mips64r2 ASEs implemented : mips3d shadow register sets : 1 kscratch registers : 0 package : 0 core : 0 VCED exceptions : not available VCEI exceptions : not available
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