Re: Re: Bug#865314: debian-installer-9-netboot-mips: 32bit MIPS (big-endian) Malta netboot installer doesn't boot

Hi,

On 20/06/17 15:40, Bruno Bierbaumer wrote:
> It's maybe related that the mips64el kernel doesn't  boot at all.

This is unrelated. On mips64el, QEMU defaults to the 20Kc CPU which
Debian does not support. If you pass "-cpu MIPS64R2-generic" to QEMU
then it should work.

James

> On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 15:11:27 +0100 Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 04:01:26PM +0200, Bruno Bierbaumer wrote:
>>> Yes, it works perfectly well for Debian Jessie.
>>
>> Ok, thanks for confirming.
>>
>> mips folks - any clues please? AFAICS we've had ~zero input about mips
>> in d-i and image work, and no visible testing. Some help would be
>> appreciated...
>>
>>> On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 14:47:52 +0100 Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 03:43:36PM +0200, Bruno Bierbaumer wrote:
>>>>> It also seems to be broken on MIPSEL
>>>>>
>>>>> wget
>>>>> http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-mipsel/current/images/malta/netboot/initrd.gz
>>>>> wget
>>>>> http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-mipsel/current/images/malta/netboot/vmlinux-4.9.0-3-4kc-malta
>>>>> qemu-system-mipsel -M malta -m 256 -kernel vmlinux-4.9.0-3-4kc-malta
>>>>> -initrd initrd.gz -nographic
>>>>
>>>> Hi Bruno,
>>>>
>>>> Did the same setup work with jessie images? I've got ~no background
>>>> with mips stuff here...
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                [email protected]
>>>> "We're the technical experts.  We were hired so that management could
>>>>  ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs."  -- Mike Andrews
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>> -- 
>> Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                [email protected]
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