Hi all, Recent versions of the debian-installer for sparc64 no longer contain the virtio-modules included in the kernel used to boot the installer. This makes it impossible to install Debian directly from a virtio CDROM device.
Currently I have a set of patches of OpenBIOS (as used by QEMU) to add a virtio-blk driver which will enable this functionality for both SPARC64 and PPC architectures, with the hope that I will be able to add virtio-net support at a later date. Please can you consider the attached patch for inclusion in the debian-installer so that it becomes possible to perform a complete sparc64 installation from virtio devices under QEMU? Note: I also see that there is a related patch for PPC at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=767487 which hasn't been applied yet. Is there any chance that this could also be applied in order to aid with my testing? Many thanks, Mark.
From 0268b0bada52d9a24a1e9329ac61dfa5fe730b96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Cave-Ayland <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 08:35:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] sparc64: add virtio modules to cdrom image --- build/pkg-lists/cdrom/sparc64.cfg | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/build/pkg-lists/cdrom/sparc64.cfg b/build/pkg-lists/cdrom/sparc64.cfg index de06b42..6947493 100644 --- a/build/pkg-lists/cdrom/sparc64.cfg +++ b/build/pkg-lists/cdrom/sparc64.cfg @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ input-modules-${kernel:Version} pata-modules-${kernel:Version} usb-modules-${kernel:Version} usb-storage-modules-${kernel:Version} +virtio-modules-${kernel:Version} scsi-common-modules-${kernel:Version} ? scsi-modules-${kernel:Version} -- 1.7.10.4
