Re: [Wg-test-framework] laxton (softiron) boot failure with Debian linux-image-4.7.0-0.bpo.1-arm64

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Ian,

On 16/12/2016 19:46, Ian Jackson wrote:
> You helped me out a month or two ago with the two Softiron arm64 boxes
> in the Xen Project Colo.  I'm afraid I still can't get them working.
>
> I have sorted out (I think) most of the booting problems.  Because you
> advised a newer kernel was required, I have arranged to try the
> version from Debian jessie-backports.  Currently that's
>   linux-image-4.7.0-0.bpo.1-arm64_4.7.8-1~bpo8+1_arm64.deb
>
> The bootloader seems to transfer control to the kernel OK, but I see
> nothing after this:
>
> EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel...
> EFI stub: EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL unavailable, no randomness supplied
> EFI stub: Using DTB from configuration table
> EFI stub: Exiting boot services and installing virtual address map...
>
> My kernel command line is like this:
>
>   linux /osstest/debian-installer/arm64/2016-12-16-jessie/linux.backports 
> vga=normal auto=true preseed hw-detect/load_firmware=false DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 
> DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text hostname=laxton0 
> url=osstest.test-lab.xenproject.org/~iwj/osstest/laxton0_preseed 
> netcfg/dhcp_timeout=150 netcfg/choose_interface=auto 
> domain=test-lab.xenproject.org   console=ttyS0,115200n8 -- 
> console=ttyS0,115200n8
>
> The initrd is a jessie version of debian-installer, modified by the
> osstest `mg-debian-installer-update' script, principally to
> incorporate the kernel modules and DTBS from the backports kernel
> package.  (That part of the script was written by Ian Campbell.)
>
> I also tried the kernel from Debian stretch.  It did the same thing.
> (I don't really want to make osstest depend on a stretch kernel,
> because they update frequently and the updates break things.  But I
> think probably stretch should be fixed and anyway to get the kernel
> into backports it would have to be in stretch first.)
>
> Can you offer any helpful advice, or direct me to the right place ?
My knowledge with Debian and softiron are limited. I have CCed a couple 
of people which might be able to help you here.
Cheers,

--
Julien Grall

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