Your message dated Wed, 16 Apr 2025 22:39:21 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1101152: fixed in edk2 2025.02-7
has caused the Debian Bug report #1101152,
regarding qemu-efi-aarch64: unable to boot arm64 kernel
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Package: qemu-efi-aarch64
Version: 2025.02-4
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-...@lists.debian.org, noisyc...@tutanota.com
User: debian-...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: arm64
Dear Maintainer,
You were right in #1099500, my bug has nothing to do with ovmf. After further
digging I found out the underlying cause of my issue is qemu-system-aarch64
being unable to directly boot a Debian kernel with the qemu-efi-aarch64 2025.02
firmware (tested with 2025.02-3, but 2025.02-4 mostly introduces doc changes so
I'm flagging the latter). What does not work for me is the following:
```
dd if=/usr/share/qemu-efi-aarch64/QEMU_EFI.fd of=vars.fd conv=notrunc
truncate -s 64m vars.fd
qemu-system-aarch64 -enable-kvm -machine virt -cpu host -m 512 -drive
if=pflash,format=raw,file=/usr/share/AAVMF/AAVMF_CODE.fd,readonly -drive
if=pflash,format=raw,file=vars.fd -kernel kernel -serial stdio
```
Here the `kernel` file passed as argument to the `-kernel` option is the arm64
kernel binary currently in experimental, obtained by downloading and unpacking
linux-image-6.13-arm64 (but I also tested linux-image-6.12.19-arm64). The
console just remains stuck at the EDK II shell:
```
UEFI Interactive Shell v2.2
EDK II
UEFI v2.70 (Debian distribution of EDK II, 0x00010000)
map: No mapping found.
Press ESC in 1 seconds to skip startup.nsh or any other key to continue.
Shell>
```
Version 2024.11-5, by converse, is able to boot the kernel using the command
line above. Moreover, qemu-system-aarch64 is able to boot the kernel without
the qemu-efi-aarch64 firmware (i.e. by removing the two pflash drives above).
In both cases the kernel obviously panics immediately in the absence of a root,
but kernel logs start showing nonetheless.
For context, I came across this while using libguestfs. I am running a test
suite
which uses ruby-guestfs to set up some disks in a VM before actually booting it,
and tracing the commands it's using under the hood lead me to the minimal
reproducer above. On the other hand (despite my claim in Bug#1099500), booting
an image with arm64 unsigned grub on the removable path does seem to work.
Previously I had not realized the boot failure happened during the preparatory
phases of testing driven by libguestfs.
Cheers!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500,
'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)
Kernel: Linux 6.13.7-asahi (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
qemu-efi-aarch64 depends on no packages.
qemu-efi-aarch64 recommends no packages.
Versions of packages qemu-efi-aarch64 suggests:
ii qemu-system-arm 1:9.2.2+ds-1+b1
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: edk2
Source-Version: 2025.02-7
Done: dann frazier <da...@debian.org>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
edk2, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 1101...@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
dann frazier <da...@debian.org> (supplier of updated edk2 package)
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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 08:42:58 -0600
Source: edk2
Architecture: source
Version: 2025.02-7
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: dann frazier <da...@debian.org>
Closes: 1101152
Changes:
edk2 (2025.02-7) unstable; urgency=medium
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* qemu-efi-aarch64: Fix regression with QEMU -kernel (Closes: #1101152):
- d/p/0001-OvmfPkg-QemuKernelLoaderFsDxe-fix-allocation-failure.patch
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