Bug#977126: linux: No armel kernel can be booted by grub-efi-arm:armel

2020-12-13 Thread Ryutaroh Matsumoto
Hi Ben, > But linux-image-rpi does not have the virtio driver, this option cannot > be used (at least for now). > > Can you try adding it? You should be able to cross-build the kernel > package quite easily if you use the profiles "cross,pkg.linux.notools". > There are generic instructions at >

Bug#977126: linux: No armel kernel can be booted by grub-efi-arm:armel

2020-12-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2020-12-14 at 10:24 +0900, Ryutaroh Matsumoto wrote: Hi Ben, thanks again for your response. > We used to provide a 'versatile' flavour on armel, for the ARM > > Versatile boards that QEMU has supported for a long time.  I removed > > this flavour back in 2016 after finding that it had bee

Bug#977126: linux: No armel kernel can be booted by grub-efi-arm:armel

2020-12-13 Thread Ryutaroh Matsumoto
Hi Ben, thanks again for your response. > We used to provide a 'versatile' flavour on armel, for the ARM > Versatile boards that QEMU has supported for a long time. I removed > this flavour back in 2016 after finding that it had been broken for a > while and no-one had reported it. Adding that b

Bug#977126: linux: No armel kernel can be booted by grub-efi-arm:armel

2020-12-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2020-12-14 at 05:13 +0900, Ryutaroh Matsumoto wrote: > > The rpi flavour doesn't have those constraints, though.  What would be > > the benefit of booting it in UEFI mode? > > Thank you for paying your attention! > I considered extending autopkgtest-virt-qemu to armel (and other archs) >

Bug#977126: linux: No armel kernel can be booted by grub-efi-arm:armel

2020-12-13 Thread Ryutaroh Matsumoto
> The rpi flavour doesn't have those constraints, though. What would be > the benefit of booting it in UEFI mode? Thank you for paying your attention! I considered extending autopkgtest-virt-qemu to armel (and other archs) testbeds at https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/-/merge_requests

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2020-12-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#977126: linux: No armel kernel can be booted by grub-efi-arm:armel

2020-12-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 19:09 +0900, Ryutaroh Matsumoto wrote: > Source: linux > Version: 5.9.11-1 > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-Cc: pkg-grub-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net > > Dear Maintainer, > > grub-efi-arm:armel package remains almost unusable for very long time. >

Bug#977126: linux: No armel kernel can be booted by grub-efi-arm:armel

2020-12-11 Thread Ryutaroh Matsumoto
Source: linux Version: 5.9.11-1 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: pkg-grub-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net Dear Maintainer, grub-efi-arm:armel package remains almost unusable for very long time. To boot a kernel in UEFI mode, it must be compiled with CONFIG_EFI. But no Debian armel kernel (specific