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| From | Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel |
| Subject | Bug#928451: linux: riscv64 updates (change kernel image type to flat image and enable vdso) |
| Date | 2019-06-04 21:40 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <y5nrQ-47U-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <xUdm9-26o-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <xUdm9-26o-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
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Control: tags 928451 pending On 2019-05-05, Karsten Merker wrote: > the riscv64 architecture is changing its standard kernel image > format from ELF to a flat kernel image with a PE/COFF-compatible > header (similar to arm64) to make EFI stub support possible, so > we need to ship arch/riscv/boot/Image instead of an ELF vmlinux. > This also enables us to get rid of BBL (the RISC-V Berkeley > BootLoader) and make the move to U-Boot/GRUB on riscv64. This was just merged to master: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/commit/05218aa3a21b7dff4e8741bafec411ef07f63bf8 > With kernel 5.0 we can now also enable the vdso config option in > the package for riscv64 as the necessary infrastructure is now in > the upstream kernel (this wasn't the case when riscv64 support > was originally added to the Debian kernel package). This was added in 4.19.x already. live well, vagrant
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Bug#928451: linux: riscv64 updates (change kernel image type to flat image and enable vdso) Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org> - 2019-05-05 02:40 +0200 Processed: Re: linux: riscv64 updates (change kernel image type to flat image and enable vdso) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2019-06-04 21:40 +0200 Bug#928451: linux: riscv64 updates (change kernel image type to flat image and enable vdso) Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> - 2019-06-04 21:40 +0200 Bug#928451: marked as done (linux: riscv64 updates (change kernel image type to flat image and enable vdso)) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2019-08-06 08:10 +0200
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