Control: reassign -1 src:linux

Hi,

Le 2021-10-26 20:44, Zameer Manji a écrit :
> Package: linux-image-arm64
> Version: 5.14.9-2
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> In bullseye, version 5.10.70-1 has the 
> CONFIG_EFI_GENERIC_STUB_INITRD_CMDLINE_LOADER
> kernel configuration set to 'y'. In bookworm it is unset which disable this 
> feature.
> 
> This kernel configuration parameter allows for the EFI stub of the kernel to
> parse and use a 'initrd=' parameter to set up an initrd when booting from EFI.
> Boot loaders like 'systemd-boot' or 'refind' set this parameter if configured
> to pass an initrd. If the kernel configuration parameter is unset, the
> `initrd=` paramater is ignored, and can result in an unbootable system because
> the initrd has not setup the root filesystem.
> 
> Without the kernel configuaration set, it is not possible to use 
> 'systemd-boot'
> or 'refind' on arm64 as both of these bootloaders assume the kernel will
> handle the 'initrd=' flag and setup the initrd.
> 
> Please consider enabling CONFIG_EFI_GENERIC_STUB_INITRD_CMDLINE_LOADER on
> arm64 so using 'systemd-boot' or 'refind' can continue to work. Until these
> bootloaders have been updated to use an alternative method of passing the
> initrd to the EFI stub, it is not possible to have a booting system.
 
Except on X86, EFI_GENERIC_STUB_INITRD_CMDLINE_LOADER is no longer enabled by
default. Please see [1] for some details. 

Cheers,
Vincent

[1] 
https://gitlab.com/linux-kernel/stable/-/commit/6edcf9dc2e1aff3aa1f5a69ee420fb30dd0e968a
 

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