Re: Enabling arm64 live image builds
Hi Steve! On 2023-09-25 12:58, Steve McIntyre wrote: > However, do we expect the image to be usable on any real machines > as-is? Ah yes, reality. :-) I've tested a live image on my RPi 3 B+ with Tianocore firmware and it works well (lxde, gnome takes too long to start and I suspect 1G of total memory is really not enough for it these days!) Currently I'm trying to get the right combo of modules in the initrd to get it booting on the X13s as well. I suspect most SystemReady certified systems should work too, but I haven't tried. Emanuele
Re: Enabling arm64 live image builds
Hello Emanuele, On 25/09/2023 16:19, Emanuele Rocca wrote: On 2023-09-25 12:58, Steve McIntyre wrote: However, do we expect the image to be usable on any real machines as-is? Ah yes, reality. :-) I've tested a live image on my RPi 3 B+ with Tianocore firmware and it works well (lxde, gnome takes too long to start and I suspect 1G of total memory is really not enough for it these days!) Currently I'm trying to get the right combo of modules in the initrd to get it booting on the X13s as well. Please also take a look at the work by Thore Sommer in [1]. With kind regards, Roland Clobus [1] https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/merge_requests/294 OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
When will the Debian 12 32-bit Live ISO arrive?
In https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/ only amd64 and source but not i386? Is there a release date for i386 ISO image live? Thank you Alessandro
Re: When will the Debian 12 32-bit Live ISO arrive?
Hello Alessandro, On 25/09/2023 17:04, Alessandro Magnaterra wrote: In https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/ only amd64 and source but not i386? Is there a release date for i386 ISO image live? See https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2023/08/msg00037.html i386 support is not explicitly removed from the code, but it is not tested. Keeping up with 9 images for amd64 alone is a big enough maintenance task, unless you volunteer to monitor all i386 images Then you will be able to determine the release date. With kind regards, Roland Clobus OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Enabling arm64 live image builds
Hi! Live images are currently only being built for x86 machines as far as I can see on [1] and [2]. I've tried building them on arm64 too, and everything worked perfectly fine. I'm thus wondering whether it would be possible to build official images for arm64 as well? Here's the commands I've used: $ lb config --distribution sid --updates false --bootloaders grub-efi --archive-areas 'main non-free-firmware' $ echo task-gnome-desktop > config/package-lists/desktop.list.chroot $ sudo lb build The resulting image can be tested with qemu on a x86 host. For example: $ ISO=/var/tmp/live-image-arm64.hybrid.iso $ cp /usr/share/AAVMF/AAVMF_VARS.fd /tmp $ qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt -cpu max,pauth-impdef=on -smp `nproc` -m 4G \ -device qemu-xhci -device usb-kbd -device ramfb -device usb-tablet \ -drive file=$ISO,format=raw,if=none,id=thumb -device usb-storage,drive=thumb,bootindex=1 \ -drive file=/usr/share/AAVMF/AAVMF_CODE.fd,if=pflash,readonly=true \ -drive file=/tmp/AAVMF_VARS.fd,format=raw,if=pflash \ -netdev user,id=net0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0 Click on View -> serial0 to follow the boot process, and switch back to ramfb after gdm has started. Thanks! Emanuele [1] https://www.debian.org/CD/live/ [2] https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/
Re: Enabling arm64 live image builds
Hey Emanuele! On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 12:59:46PM +0200, Emanuele Rocca wrote: > >Live images are currently only being built for x86 machines as far as I >can see on [1] and [2]. Yup. >I've tried building them on arm64 too, and everything worked perfectly >fine. I'm thus wondering whether it would be possible to build official >images for arm64 as well? It should be, but may need some extra build setup work. All the official installer and live images are built on casulana, our big amd64 build machine. We have some infra for doing builds in qemu VMs if needed, but I suspect that's going to be very slow. Meh, we can work our a solution for that at some point >Here's the commands I've used: > >$ lb config --distribution sid --updates false --bootloaders grub-efi >--archive-areas 'main non-free-firmware' >$ echo task-gnome-desktop > config/package-lists/desktop.list.chroot >$ sudo lb build > >The resulting image can be tested with qemu on a x86 host. > >For example: > >$ ISO=/var/tmp/live-image-arm64.hybrid.iso >$ cp /usr/share/AAVMF/AAVMF_VARS.fd /tmp >$ qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt -cpu max,pauth-impdef=on -smp `nproc` -m >4G \ > -device qemu-xhci -device usb-kbd -device ramfb -device usb-tablet \ > -drive file=$ISO,format=raw,if=none,id=thumb -device > usb-storage,drive=thumb,bootindex=1 \ >-drive file=/usr/share/AAVMF/AAVMF_CODE.fd,if=pflash,readonly=true \ > -drive file=/tmp/AAVMF_VARS.fd,format=raw,if=pflash \ > -netdev user,id=net0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0 > >Click on View -> serial0 to follow the boot process, and switch back to >ramfb after gdm has started. OK. However, do we expect the image to be usable on any real machines as-is? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
