[Macchiato] Trying to install mainline debian 9

[Duncan Guthrie]

Hello all,

On 09/17/18 15:20, Riku Voipio wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 at 16:19, Andrew Elwell <andrew.elwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 at 06:53, Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton at arm.com> wrote:
>>> Putting the UEFI image on SD, I can successfully boot the fedora
>>> installer from USB (rawhide/f29, haven't tried PXE) and the resulting
>>> installed image can also boot from SATA. It still has a few warts (ACPI
>>> for one) but, I imagine that a fairly recent opensuse/debian should at
>>> least boot.
>>
>> Thanks - that indeed works. I managed to get a debian installer
>> working OK off USB.
>>
>> Thats the good news,
>> The Bad news is that there's no mvpp2 driver for the default 4.9 arm
>> kernels, Backports has a 4.17 kernel which looks better:
>>
>> root at debian:/lib/modules# ls
>> 4.17.0-0.bpo.3-arm64  4.9.0-7-arm64  4.9.0-8-arm64
>> root at debian:/lib/modules# find . -name mvpp2.ko
>> ./4.17.0-0.bpo.3-arm64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.ko
>> root at debian:/lib/modules#
>>
>> but if I try and boot that, all I see on the console is
>>
>> Loading Linux 4.17.0-0.bpo.3-arm64 ...
>> Loading initial ramdisk ...
>> EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel...
>> EFI stub: Using DTB from configuration table
>> EFI stub: Exiting boot services and installing virtual address map...
>>
>> and nothing else happens.
>>
>> Even adding earlyprintk and friends didn't reveal any more.
> 
> earlyprintk is long gone. Use "earlycon" instead. Also in grub remove
> "quiet" and replace with "debug"
> 
> Try adding "clk_ignore_unused" to tell the kernel not to shut down
> unused clocks, if the kernel just hangs mysteriously in the boot.
> 
> Riku
> 
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> (using a USB ethernet dongle longterm kinda defeats the purpose of the
>> macchiatobin)
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Andrew

Please add your findings here:
https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Marvell/MACCHIATOBin.

Best wishes,
Duncan