Bug#908161: Please enable building a riscv64 kernel image

[Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org>]

On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 11:15:36PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:

[Building a linux-image-*-riscv64 binary package]

> The addition of riscv will have to wait until it has support
> for an initramfs.
> 
> Is this commit sufficient to make booting with an initramfs work:
> 
> commit cdc7274029ca5984350a057a2399aaa340d3be2d
> Author: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> Date:   Tue Aug 28 17:33:46 2018 -0700
> 
>     riscv: Do not overwrite initrd_start and initrd_end
> 
> or are more changes needed?

Hello,

just a short status update: the aforementioned patch has been
included in the upstream 4.19-rc4 release and I can confirm
that the initramfs support for riscv64 works with 4.19-rc4.

The other major issue in this bug (unversioned symbols breaking
the package build) is still unresolved; I'll report back as soon
as I have received feedback from the upstream RISC-V architecture
maintainer.

Regards,
Karsten
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