Source: u-boot Version: 2021.01+dfsg-5 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: jo...@debian.org
Hi, creating a bootable Debian image is extremely easy thanks to the many tools doing the same thing: https://wiki.debian.org/SystemBuildTools#General_tools What is hard is: - doing this for foreign architectures - doing it without superuser privileges - producing bit-by-bit reproducible output And none of the tools on that list offers these properties. In my latest rant about the topic [1] I list u-boot-qemu as one of the possible solutions. Using u-boot is nice because: - it (theoretically) supports more architectures than extlinux or grub - since u-boot binaries for qemu come from the outside, the image itself can be bit-by-bit reproducible (impossible with grub or extlinux) The u-boot-qemu already builds for a number of targets. Would it easily be possible to add more so that at least all our release architectures are covered? Thanks! cheers, josch [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=944386#30
