Re: [Xen-devel] [OSSTEST PATCH v2 00/19] Upgrade to Stretch

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 01:38:12PM +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi Wei,
> 
> On 31/10/17 13:51, Wei Liu wrote:
> > First version of this series can be found at [0].
> > 
> > This version contains workaround for Arndale boards. They are now 
> > functional.
> 
> I need the following patch [1] to use that branch on Arm64 boxes.
> 
> Also, on Thunder-X I needed a hack to keep the interface name
> consistent between the installer and Debian (see discussion on
> patch #7). Looking at the discussion I am not sure what is the
> way forward to fix it.

IIRC Ian suggested you copy one of the udev rules from Jessie's d-i to
the initrd osstest generated for stretch, and perhaps copy it to the
installed OS as well. I can't remember which files and don't have a
jessie system to hand.

Ian?

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> [1]
> 
> commit 26badf528e343d3fc540b61490011d391f2360a8
> Author: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>
> Date:   Tue Feb 20 11:54:51 2018 +0000
> 
>     stretch: Use chainloading when booting using GRUB on Arm64
>     
>     The GRUB package in Stretch is not able to boot Xen on Arm64.
>     Use chainloading as we did for Jessie for the time being.
>     
>     Note that a bug has been filled on Debian to integrate Xen
>     pactches for the next release (see [1]).
>     
>     [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=884770
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>
> 
> diff --git a/Osstest/Debian.pm b/Osstest/Debian.pm
> index b2d5007..2a2efa0 100644
> --- a/Osstest/Debian.pm
> +++ b/Osstest/Debian.pm
> @@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ sub setupboot_grub2 ($$$$) {
>      # Grub2 on Jessie/arm* doesn't do multiboot, so we must chainload.

Please also update the comment here.

Wei.

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