Flash-kernel support for Chromebooks

2019-09-11 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
Hello everyone. I'm using a Samsung Chromebook Plus (v1) and have been trying to get flash-kernel to support it. For those who don't know, Chromebooks do not support EFI, they have a custom verified-boot system which require its payloads to be written as GPT partitions. There are workarounds

Graphical installer on arm64

2020-01-05 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
I've been working on getting Debian installer to run on my chromebook (kevin) for a while and I've also tested Wookey's patches [1] for enabling the graphical parts. The inputs didn't work with just those udebs as reported then, but adding 'event-modules-${kernel:Version}' as well to the

Re: Graphical installer on arm64

2020-01-06 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 05/01/2020 23:30, Andrei POPESCU wrote: I'd be interested to test this on the Acer Chromebook R13 (elm). Where / how do I start? From what I can find on the internet: it doesn't look like mainline Linux works on elm yet and Debian arm64 kernel doesn't even have CONFIG_ARCH_MEDIATEK (and

Re: Graphical installer on arm64

2020-01-07 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 06/01/2020 23:48, andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, will look into it at some point. It seems Arch have a working kernel for it. Yeah, they have board-specific kernels built from Chrome OS sources. Those could be a starting point, but other people might have tried first and have more

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

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-06 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 06/04/2020 20:15, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: Wrong. If you want to install it then set firmware to UEFI, attach ISO and boot. "Direct kernel boot" option is only if you do not have firmware which handle booting. Thanks. I know that's how it should be done, but I haven't learned how to build

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-20 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
back on it) >From 1713b6544d4950d2861710b48aff16b4b0a119af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alper Nebi Yasak Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 19:27:18 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Use /dev/tty0 as a console even if it's not in /proc/consoles Signed-off-by: Alper Nebi Yasak --- src/sbin/reopen-console-linux

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-20 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 20/04/2020 19:35, Wookey wrote: On 2020-04-20 17:51 +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: W dniu 20.04.2020 o 17:38, Steve McIntyre pisze: Does /dev/tty0 show up in /proc/consoles in your setup? We might need to tweak that yet... ~ # cat /proc/consoles ttyAMA0 -W- (EC p a)

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-21 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 21/04/2020 14:23, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: W dniu 21.04.2020 o 13:14, Alper Nebi Yasak pisze: An alternative that occurred to me later is putting console=tty0 on the "Graphical install" grub entries (in grub-gencfg), but that'd mean debian-installer wouldn't run on serial con

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

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

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-20 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alper Nebi Yasak Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:50:07 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Add modules and build files for armhf graphical installer cdrom Signed-off-by: Alper Nebi Yasak --- build/config/armhf/cdrom.cfg | 2 +- build/config/armhf/cdrom/gtk.cfg |

Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-02 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
ssing modules (usb, fat, virtio) to arm64 netboot build and xorg modules to netbook-gtk Alper Nebi Yasak: - added event-modules to arm64 netboot-gtk - commented-out serial-modules from arm64 netboot Signed-off-by: Alper Nebi Yasak --- build/pkg-lists/netboot/arm64.cfg | 15 ++- build/p

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

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

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

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

Re: [installation-guide arm64] boot installer from USB / preparing installation-media

2020-05-23 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 22/05/2020 15:22, Holger Wansing wrote: in the installation-guide, arm64 has the "bootable-usb" option set. That leads to this chapter being included in the manual: https://d-i.debian.org/doc/installation-guide/en.arm64/ch04s03.html Is this true for arm64? When I write netboot mini.iso

Re: sd-card-images

2020-08-29 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 29/08/2020 12:58, Frank Mankel wrote: Hello, I have used these images for my RockPro64 in the past. But currently I get a 404, am I looking in the wrong place? With kind regards Frank https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/arm64/daily/netboot/SD-card-images/ The daily images are

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: d-i Alpha 3 seems unusable for qemu-system-aarch64

2020-12-08 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 08/12/2020 13:30, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > W dniu 08.12.2020 o 11:13, Alper Nebi Yasak pisze: >> On 08/12/2020 12:26, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > >>> Both standard and graphical installer contain kernel modules for virtio >>> framebuffer. And both ignore vi

Re: d-i Alpha 3 seems unusable for qemu-system-aarch64

2020-12-08 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 08/12/2020 12:26, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > W dniu 08.12.2020 o 09:06, Ryutaroh Matsumoto pisze: >> Hi Debian Arm users, >> >> I tried Bullseye d-i Alpha3 released on December 6 for >> building a qemu disk image usable by qemu-system-aarch64. >> To me, Alpha 3 d-i seems almost unusable for

Re: Trying to run debian arm64 installer in qemu-system-aarch64 on amd64

2020-12-21 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 21/12/2020 21:22, Witold Baryluk wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to get qemu-system-aarch64 going, In particular I am > interested in running graphical installer, or live debian or ubuntu > environments. > > I tried the daily netinst for arm64, and it claims there is no > graphics, and fallbacks

Re: Bug#976808: with "-display gtk" arrow keys are received as just ^[ on ttyAMA0

2020-12-15 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 13/12/2020 12:05, Ryutaroh Matsumoto wrote: > I verified that the reported symptom does NOT occur with > qemu-system-x86_64 and ttyS0 serial console running on an amd64 host. > This symptom seems unique to arm(64). I had misunderstood you and was trying with -nographic earlier :) . Found an

Re: Trying to run debian arm64 installer in qemu-system-aarch64 on amd64

2020-12-22 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 22/12/2020 00:47, Witold Baryluk wrote: > Hi Alper. > > That was the trick! > > It looks like a progress. > > `console=tty0` added in the grub to linux line. > > And it works, the first ~25 seconds there is a black/blank screen, and > qemu says "Guest disabled this display". > > It

Re: Debian installer auf Pinebook (Was: X11 modul for pinebook?)

2021-03-05 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 05/03/2021 15:03, Christian Kastner wrote: > My attempts at installing with full disk encryption all failed at boot > time (same effect: blank screen after the loading kernel message). > > I then tried an installation without FDE. Again the blank screen, but > eventually a lightdm appeared (I

Bug#1007729: Firefox 98 fails to draw a window on aarch64

2022-03-15 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
Package: firefox Version: 98.0-2 Severity: important Tags: upstream patch Forwarded: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1757571 X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-arm@lists.debian.org Hello, I'm running Debian unstable with XFCE on an arm64 chromebook (rk3399-gru-kevin). Firefox could no longer draw

Re: Debian on Lenovo Chromebook (ARMv8)

2023-04-10 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 07/04/2023 20:56, Brian Sammon wrote: > On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 18:31:10 +0300 Alper Nebi Yasak > wrote: >> The SC7180 one? Does it work with the Debian-built kernel? > > It's a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Ver2. I'm running the kernel that came > with the image I downloaded from

Re: Debian on Lenovo Chromebook (ARMv8)

2023-04-05 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
depthcharge-tools (as Jérémy mentioned). So if you did the partitioning and have a working kernel, running e.g. `sudo depthchargectl write` would handle the rest. On 31/03/2023 11:14, Jérémy Lal wrote: > Alper Nebi Yasak was working on making it easier to do all that in debian, > you might

Re: Bug#1034159: Kernel support for more ChromeOS devices

2023-11-23 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
Hi, I'd hope "during a mini-DebCamp at ARM" is the perfect time to poke you about kernel support for more ARM platforms? On 2023-10-15 16:30 +03:00, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: > I'll also look into configs needed for ARM Chromebooks in more detail, > but that'll take more time bec