Bug#911133: Graphical installer

2019-01-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Forgot to add the bug in on the mails I just sent. Wookey has been working through how to do some of this. See: * https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2019/01/msg00183.html * https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2019/01/msg00184.html and my responses there. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Bug#911133: Graphical installer

2018-10-19 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2018-10-19, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2018-10-18 at 23:43 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> There are at least two arm64 laptops, but as far as I know they both >> currently just support simplefb, though I'm not sure what needs to >> change in debian-installer to support them; just tried t

Bug#911133: Graphical installer

2018-10-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2018-10-18 at 23:43 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2018-10-18, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Thu, 2018-10-18 at 19:48 +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > > For current AMD chips the only native driver is amdgpu; for older chips > > it's radeon. Both of them will need some firmware just

Bug#911133: Graphical installer

2018-10-18 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2018-10-18, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2018-10-18 at 19:48 +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > For current AMD chips the only native driver is amdgpu; for older chips > it's radeon. Both of them will need some firmware just to light up the > display. > >> - nouveau There is a tegra laptop t

Bug#911133: Graphical installer

2018-10-18 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
W dniu 19.10.2018 o 01:03, Ben Hutchings pisze: > On Thu, 2018-10-18 at 19:48 +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: >> What we probably need is expanding fb-modules udeb for arm64 with >> several entries: >> >> - radeonfb > > We don't build radeonfb for arm64, since it only supports old Radeon > chips

Bug#911133: Graphical installer

2018-10-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2018-10-18 at 19:48 +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > What we probably need is expanding fb-modules udeb for arm64 with > several entries: > > - radeonfb We don't build radeonfb for arm64, since it only supports old Radeon chips (up to about 2004). For current AMD chips the only native

Bug#911133: Graphical installer

2018-10-18 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
What we probably need is expanding fb-modules udeb for arm64 with several entries: - radeonfb - nouveau - virtio-gpu (for VM guest instances) This should cover real hardware machines with either AMD Radeon or NVidia graphic cards and also virtual machines. UEFI does not even need to have X86Emul