Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2025-03-31 / loongarch test report
Hello Yifei,
On Thu, 2025-04-24 at 04:51 +0000, Yifei Zhan wrote:
> > I hope that Loongson fixes this issue in the near future. Using these
> > filenames works on all other UEFI targets we have, including the emulated
> > LoongArch machine in QEMU.
>
> I believe this issue is tracked by loongson here:
> https://github.com/loongson/Firmware/issues/133
Yep, I opened this issue back then.
> Interestingly the EFI directory when inspected under Linux appeared to be
> named in uppercase but it's shown in lowercase under the UEFI shell, I'm not
> sure why or if this is the cause of the problem.
No idea. Let's hope it gets fixed soon.
> > > - select 'install', 'graphical install' won't work due to the missing
> > >
> > > /install/gtk/initrd.gz
> >
> > Since loong64 is still part of Debian Ports, there are limitations with
> > regards what's available in debian-installer. I have never tried building
> > an installer image with the graphical installer, I would have to try that
> > first.
> > > At one stage of the installation I was prompted about missing firmware for
> > > USB controller, then the USB drive is disconnected, I have to unplug and
> > > replug it then manually remount it as /cdrom. But other than that, the
> > > whole process is smoother than anticipated!
> >
> > Firmware is also only available for Debian release architectures which means
> > that this issue will be resolved when loong64 becomes an official
> > architecture.
>
> Is the progress tracked somewhere? I'd like to see Loong64 becoming an official
> release architecture in Forky and I'm happy to help with that.
The process comes in multiple stages:
- Add loong64 to Debian Ports -> done
- Bootstrap the archive and fix issues as they show up -> done
- Add loong64 support to debian-installer -> done
- Set up a porterbox -> done
- Have DSA take over the hardware -> done
- Add loong64 to the official FTP archive -> pending
See: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1089009
> > > I installed KDE Plasma and although sddm/lightdm won't work (due to
> > > missing
> > > graphic card?), running startx from the console does the trick. I also
> > > have to disable acceleration in about:config for firefox to display any
> > > webpage, but other than that the system is usable as a desktop.
> >
> > Both sddm and lightdm should work just fine. Did you install any desktop
> > using the tasksel command? This should install all the necessary packages.
> >
>
> Yes, I installed KDE plasma when prompted during the installation process it
> comes with sddm, however it does not work, so I manually installed lightdm
> which also doesn't work. The system reports the graphic adapter as being LLVM
> pipe, so I assume either my board doesn't support graphic acceleration, or a
> discrete graphic card is expected.
This is very interesting. Can you try to provide debug information from the log
files. My suspicion is that you might be missing firmware for your graphics card.
You can try to use this sources.list:
https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/sources.list
and then try to install the "firmware-amd-graphics" package.
Adrian
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