Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christopher Obbard <[email protected]> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Christopher Obbard <[email protected]>, Tobias Heider <[email protected]>
Package name : stubble Version : v3 Upstream Contact: Tobias Heider <[email protected]> URL : https://github.com/canonical/stubble License : LGPL2.1 Programming Lang: C Description : UEFI kernel stub with device-tree loading capability Small Linux kernel EFI boot stub bundling device trees, a CHID database and the kernel. The stub finds a matching device tree based on CHIDs generated from SMBIOS and loads it before executing the embedded kernel. Booting generic Distro images on ARM64 laptops is quite hard due to (currently) no way to tell what hardware the image is running on, or to load the correct device tree from the kernel. Stubble aims to mitigate against this by loading the correct device tree for the laptop at runtime. This package will be useful to build ARM64 Debian images which "just-work" on ARM laptops, specifically Qualcomm X-Elite laptops. The package is already in Ubuntu, so the source will be taken from there and cleaned up. I plan to maintain this in Debian with Tobias; for now it will only be useful for custom images. It will need further support to sign the stub (later) and further discussion if it should be included in official ARM64 images. I was thinking about eventually creating some ARM64 HW Support Team in Debian to handle these kinds of issues.
