Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-07-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Alper, Apologies, I've been swamped with a lot of other things lately, both in Debian and in starting up with a new day job. I'll try and review your more recent changes shortly... On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 07:46:39PM +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: >Hi, I just wanted to remind you of some patch

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-07-01 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
Hi, I just wanted to remind you of some patches I sent a while back. Do you (or anyone else) have time to comment on / review / merge them? On 19/05/2020 17:17, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: So I tested my earlier patch, and did a bit more. I've attached three patches, first two for debian-installer

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-05-19 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 20/04/2020 19:36, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: On 20/04/2020 18:38, Steve McIntyre wrote: Does /dev/tty0 show up in /proc/consoles in your setup? We might need to tweak that yet... Here is a small but untested patch for rootskel's reopen-console for that. I don't think this (having to set cons

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-28 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 26/04/2020 05:54, Paul Wise wrote: ISTR that CCing Andrew Morton can help get patches into Linux if the maintainers of the code in question do not reply. I suggest you try that after you fix the issue pointed out by the bot. Thanks! Do you mean CCing at the version with the fix, or at furth

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-28 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 21/04/2020 15:42, Wookey wrote: One thought - can we just perhaps use /dev/console 'anyway' and that'll get us the right thing even when tty0 has not been properly enabled when it should have been? (I've forgotten how all this works and would need to go read the runes again, and most of my tes

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 06:41:36PM +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: >On 21/04/2020 14:14, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: >> Since you've already pushed to master, I'll try to do a full >> installation once daily cdroms are available. > >I've tested with today's (2020-04-27) weekly-built >debian-testing-arm6

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-27 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 21/04/2020 14:14, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: Since you've already pushed to master, I'll try to do a full installation once daily cdroms are available. I've tested with today's (2020-04-27) weekly-built debian-testing-arm64-xfce-CD-1.iso on my chromebook. Overall rushing through the graphical

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 11:15 AM Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: > IMO, the right answer is "tty0 not even being in /proc/consoles in this > case (where it should've also been the /dev/console) is a kernel bug". I > tried to write a patchset [1] a while back, but received no feedback > except from kbuild

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-21 Thread Wookey
On 2020-04-21 14:14 +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: > > IMO, the right answer is "tty0 not even being in /proc/consoles in this case > (where it should've also been the /dev/console) is a kernel bug". This is my opinion too, although I'm prepared to change it if someone can given a good reason why

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-21 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 20/04/2020 20:22, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 07:36:42PM +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: On 20/04/2020 18:38, Steve McIntyre wrote: Does /dev/tty0 show up in /proc/consoles in your setup? We might need to tweak that yet... Here is a small but untested patch for rootskel's

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-21 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 20/04/2020 20:01, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 03:43:57PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Try the image at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/arm64-gi/ please? OK, so this lot seems to work in a VM at least (thanks Marcin!), so I've pushed this set of patches to ma

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 07:36:42PM +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: >On 20/04/2020 18:38, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Does /dev/tty0 show up in /proc/consoles in your setup? We might need >> to tweak that yet... > >Here is a small but untested patch for rootskel's reopen-console for that. Hmmm. Is this

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 03:43:57PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 03:21:20PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 05:03:02PM +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: >>>On 20/04/2020 16:36, Steve McIntyre wrote: I'm just going to test again with that change inclu

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-20 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 20/04/2020 18:38, Steve McIntyre wrote: Does /dev/tty0 show up in /proc/consoles in your setup? We might need to tweak that yet... Here is a small but untested patch for rootskel's reopen-console for that. (Thanks for the cd image, it'll probably take me until tomorrow to test and report b

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 03:21:20PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 05:03:02PM +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: >>On 20/04/2020 16:36, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> I'm just going to test again with that change included, then I can >>> push a netinst image somewhere for you to test..

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 05:03:02PM +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: >On 20/04/2020 16:36, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> I'm just going to test again with that change included, then I can >> push a netinst image somewhere for you to test... > >I'd appreciate it. Here's another patch, this time for the armh

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-20 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 20/04/2020 16:36, Steve McIntyre wrote: I'm just going to test again with that change included, then I can push a netinst image somewhere for you to test... I'd appreciate it. Here's another patch, this time for the armhf graphical cdrom. I checked that it boots into a graphical installer w

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 10:23:06PM +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: >On 16/04/2020 15:40, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 05:43:36PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> > >> > ACK. >> > >> > Building locally to test here... >> >> And I have a build that looks OK by eye. Unfortunately,

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-19 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 16/04/2020 15:40, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 05:43:36PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: ACK. Building locally to test here... And I have a build that looks OK by eye. Unfortunately, my local test machine (Macchiatobin) seems to be dying and I can't test this effectively no

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 05:43:36PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >ACK. > >Building locally to test here... And I have a build that looks OK by eye. Unfortunately, my local test machine (Macchiatobin) seems to be dying and I can't test this effectively now. :-( It needs some tiny debian-cd change

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 10:11:12PM +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: >On 06/04/2020 17:48, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> > Alper Nebi Yasak: >> > - added event-modules to arm64 netboot-gtk >> > - commented-out serial-modules from arm64 netboot >> >> So why comment out the serial modules here? Do they caus

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-06 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 06/04/2020 17:48, Steve McIntyre wrote: Alper Nebi Yasak: - added event-modules to arm64 netboot-gtk - commented-out serial-modules from arm64 netboot So why comment out the serial modules here? Do they cause a problem? The "serial-modules" udeb isn't built on arm64 yet and including it he

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi! Great work here! :-) More comments inline... On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 07:46:01PM +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: >I posted a while ago about graphical installer on arm64, here's an update. >The first two patches I've attached are Wookey's patches with two module >changes (noted in the patch mes

Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-02 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
I posted a while ago about graphical installer on arm64, here's an update. The first two patches I've attached are Wookey's patches with two module changes (noted in the patch message). The third one is to enable graphical cdrom builds, which I tested with the d-i bullseye alpha2 arm64 xfce CD-