As it happens, David Edmonson (dme), added to cc, has been working on adding arm64 support for the grub plugin. Part of his changes is that the grub plugin will know the target archietecure, and choose the right grub .deb package to install based on that.
Unfortunatly, the tests for his changes don't pass yet. David, do you have any commnent on this? On Sat, 2020-11-07 at 23:42 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Hello Lars, > > I am writing to you regarding the bug report I am Cc:ing here. Please > help me correctly answer to this! The submitter says, in the initial > mail: > > > I am trying to let autopkgtest-build-qemu work on arm64. > > See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=973038 > > for relevant report. > > The original autopkgtest-build-qemu uses "grub: bios" for vmdb2, > > which let vmdb2 install grub-pc on arm64, and fail. > > > > So I try "grub: uefi" for vmdb2. > > Then vmdb2 tries to install grub-efi-amd64, > > and again fails. > > There is no way to let vmdb2 to create a bootable image on arm64. > > vmdb2 seems completely unusable on arm64 (and armhf, armel, etc.) > > So I set severity grave. > > He sent a workaround that does not fix the issue, but lets him build > for his target system: > > --- usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/vmdb/plugins/grub_plugin.py-orig > 2020-10-31 12:47:04.796899268 +0900 > +++ usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/vmdb/plugins/grub_plugin.py > 2020-10-31 12:50:00.322817935 +0900 > @@ -112,8 +112,8 @@ > raise Exception('"efi" or "efi-part" required in UEFI GRUB > installation') > > vmdb.progress("Installing GRUB for UEFI") > - grub_package = "grub-efi-amd64" > - grub_target = "x86_64-efi" > + grub_package = "grub-efi-arm64" > + grub_target = "arm64-efi" > self.install_grub(values, settings, state, grub_package, > grub_target) > > def install_bios(self, values, settings, state): > > *If* there is any information to plugins as to which architecture is > being built, the fix is basically trivial... But I could not find > anything on that regard. Can you suggest anything? > > Thanks a lot!
