Re: arm64 graphical installer
[ Adding CC to debian-arm for interest ]
On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 03:39:44AM +0000, Wookey wrote:
>I've done some work on getting the graphical installer going on arm64.
\o/
>It's not quite finished, but Steve suggested I publish where I'm at so
>I can get some help with the right set of module packages, and we can
>start fixing up missing bits.
>
>The first patch (enable-arm64-netboot-gtk.patch) enables the
>support. This allows X to start on the display (if the correct console
>is found/specified - see next mail). This looks lovely, but there is
>no input working, because there are no no x input drivers installed,
>nor modules for USB devices (keyboard and mouse are USB).
>
>The second patch (add-missing-arm64-netboot-modules.patch) endeavours
>to fix that, by putting arm64 on the same basis as amd64 in terms of
>modules loaded. However not all module packages are built for arm64
>so I had to remove some to get a working build.
>
>Missing modules (not built on arm64) are:
>mouse-modules
>speakup-modules
>acpi-modules
>sound-modules
>
>we should fix that too.
>
>I was not able to demonstrate that the resulting build works fully,
>because when it tries to boot the kernel I get "Error: Invalid Magic
>number..., you need to load the kernel first". No idea why that's
>changed due to adding more module packages? Clues welcome.
>
>This all sounds more broken than it is: the difficult bit of the
>graphics works fine, we just need to make sure the right modules for X
>input are available too.
Nod. I'm thinking that arm64 is likely to look very similar to amd64
in terms of the desired module sets, module obviously-missing things
like pcmcia. :-)
Also: you've added these to a netboot gtk image. We'll want to add the
equivalent graphically-minded changes for the cdrom target too so we
can make working physical media.
>From b8d5ea7d37670c6c5f9cc251e1cfc5f007388eb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Wookey <wookey@wookware.org>
>Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 18:14:22 +0000
>Subject: Add support for graphical installer to arm64
>
>
>diff --git a/build/config/arm64.cfg b/build/config/arm64.cfg
>index d9e782d..f320324 100644
>--- a/build/config/arm64.cfg
>+++ b/build/config/arm64.cfg
>@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>-MEDIUM_SUPPORTED = cdrom netboot device-tree u-boot
>+MEDIUM_SUPPORTED = cdrom netboot netboot-gtk device-tree u-boot
>
> KERNELMAJOR = 2.6
> # The version of the kernel to use.
>diff --git a/build/config/arm64/netboot-gtk.cfg b/build/config/arm64/netboot-gtk.cfg
>new file mode 100644
>index 0000000..0f1d246
>--- /dev/null
>+++ b/build/config/arm64/netboot-gtk.cfg
>@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
>+MEDIA_TYPE = netboot image
>+
>+NETBOOT_DIR_TARGETS = $(TEMP_INITRD) $(TEMP_KERNEL)
>+
>+TYPE = netboot/gtk
>+
>+TARGET = $(NETBOOT_DIR) $(NETBOOT_TAR) $(MINIISO)
>+EXTRANAME = netboot/gtk/
>+
>+BOOT_SCREEN_DIR = $(NETBOOT_PATH)/boot-screens/
>+
>+MANIFEST-NETBOOT_DIR = "PXE boot directory for tftp server (graphical installer)"
>+MANIFEST-NETBOOT_TAR = "tarball of PXE boot directory (graphical installer)"
>+MANIFEST-MINIISO = "not so tiny CD image that boots the graphical netboot installer"
>+
>+IS_PURE_GTK = 1
>+
>+KEEP_GI_LANGS = 1
>+
>+VIDEO_MODE=$(VIDEO_MODE_GTK)
>+
>+# All images that include cdebconf should include symbols needed by these
>+# plugins.
>+EXTRAUDEBS += cdebconf-gtk-entropy
>From b0bc63a3baeb1e46c469d75ff7d68929be267949 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Wookey <wookey@wookware.org>
>Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 03:13:40 +0000
>Subject: Add missing modules (usb, fat, virtio) to arm64 netboot build and
> xorg modules to netbook-gtk
>
>
>diff --git a/build/pkg-lists/netboot/arm64.cfg b/build/pkg-lists/netboot/arm64.cfg
>index e07dff0..18ca630 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-${kernel:Version} ?
>
>+#for all targets
>diff --git a/build/pkg-lists/netboot/gtk/arm64.cfg b/build/pkg-lists/netboot/gtk/arm64.cfg
>new file mode 100644
>index 0000000..2d8530a
>--- /dev/null
>+++ b/build/pkg-lists/netboot/gtk/arm64.cfg
>@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
>+#include "gtk-linux"
>+
>+#mouse-modules-${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
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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