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Bug#928451: linux: riscv64 updates (change kernel image type to flat image and enable vdso)



Control: tags 928451 pending

On 2019-05-05, Karsten Merker wrote:
> the riscv64 architecture is changing its standard kernel image
> format from ELF to a flat kernel image with a PE/COFF-compatible
> header (similar to arm64) to make EFI stub support possible, so
> we need to ship arch/riscv/boot/Image instead of an ELF vmlinux. 
> This also enables us to get rid of BBL (the RISC-V Berkeley
> BootLoader) and make the move to U-Boot/GRUB on riscv64.

This was just merged to master:

  https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/commit/05218aa3a21b7dff4e8741bafec411ef07f63bf8


> With kernel 5.0 we can now also enable the vdso config option in
> the package for riscv64 as the necessary infrastructure is now in
> the upstream kernel (this wasn't the case when riscv64 support
> was originally added to the Debian kernel package).

This was added in 4.19.x already.


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