Hello, Debian Developers. 

I
 installed Debian 12 BooksWorm on Phytium(飞腾)'s computer. 
These PCs are based on the ARM64 UEFI platform.After restarting, The 
motherboard cannot boot and keeps black screen.The motherboard has to be 
returned to the factory for repair to solve the problem.These UEFI firmware are 
made by 
Kunlun Tech(昆仑太科) or Byo software(百敖软件).After Debian
 operating system is installed, Debian installer will write Debian boot entries 
to the UEFI.However, the UEFI of the Phytium(飞腾)motherboard may have some kind 
of incompatibility with the installer.This write operation can cause UEFI 
damage.Some motherboard manufacturers have stopped maintaining the UEFI,so I 
would like to ask your advices on how to disable the installer writing boot 
entry to the UEFI.
Some users with similar experiences have speculated on the reason for the 
damage.
https://gitee.com/atzlinux/debian-cn/issues/I4RJDW
The uefi boot entry should be on the nvram, and BIOS discharges should be 
useless.
I guess it's a bug in uefi. When writing boot items to nvram, it breaks other 
places. And UEFI is damagedlinux indirectly let uefi write data through uefi's 
runtime interface. It probably looks like this.Why would installing the system 
will damage the firmware? Could efibootmgr write variable to damage the 
firmware?
Oh, that's possible, because /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/ is what the kernel 
reads out of the firmware for efibootmgr to use
I don't think debian should be blamed for this. Even if debian calls the 
runtime interface in the wrong position,runtime can't write itself 
badly.efibootmgr installation of new boot entries and adjusting the order are 
handled by the kerneland firmware runtime to complete the dealThat's because 
the kernel and firmware calls to runtime are not handled properly
If you are debugging UEFI, all I can think of is to add printing to all the 
functions of the EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES interfaceto see what interfaces the 
debian installer has tuned and what parameters it has passed. The focus is on 
SetXxx functionssuch as SetVariable(), SetVirutalAddressMap and other 
functions.I have also installed ubuntu 21.04 on d2000-8 and everything works 
fine. Coexisting with the original debian 11.
My current practice is to go to the last step of the debian installation, when 
it says to remove the installation media,just power off, unplug the USB drive 
and then manually create boot entries in the bios, and then it's fine.

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