On 2022-09-26, Bo YU wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 11:27 AM Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote: >> The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first alpha >> release of the installer for Debian 12 "Bookworm". ... >> * flash-kernel: >> - Skip flash-kernel in all EFI systems. >> - Add support for ODROID-C4, -HC4, -N2, -N2Plus (#982369). >> - Add Librem5r4 (Evergreen). >> - Add SiFive HiFive Unmatched A00 (#1006926). >> - Add BeagleV Starlight Beta board. >> - Add Microchip PolarFire-SoC Icicle Kit. >> - Add MNT Reform 2. > > I am wondering what else needs to do for riscv64 here. Now, We often > do this by making > riscv64 rootfs tarball and then flash into sd/ssd on real hardware, > like Unmatched boards. > > There may be some work to be done here, but there doesn't seem to be enough > documentation to indicate this. Any help will be appreciated. I've added some platforms for armhf and arm64; I could take a stab at adding support for the Unmatched boards. I think all the pieces (debian kernel, debian u-boot, debian opensbi, flash-kernel support) are all present, and I have a board to test with. Unfortunately, I'm a bit short on time ... might be able to squeeze it in October or November, though that's getting a bit late for bookworm freeze. Not sure on other boards. Another approach would be to add support for EFI, if there is support for grub-efi-riscv64; some of the vendor u-boot platforms probably support EFI, even if u-boot support isn't in Debian. I think Ubuntu is using the EFI support on some riscv64 platforms, so it must be theoretically possible, at least. live well, vagrant
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