On 16.03.2017 10:32, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > 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?
I just committed it, together with the patch for powerpc (bug #767487). Helge
