I've done some work on getting the graphical installer going on arm64. 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. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
From b8d5ea7d37670c6c5f9cc251e1cfc5f007388eb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wookey <woo...@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 <woo...@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
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