If you are curious how I built debian/mips kernel, please refer to this site, https://sites.google.com/junsun.net/cross-build-debian-mips-kernel/home
I gave up on updating initrd in cross-build environment. I just did an in-target deb package install. Jun On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 11:34 AM Jun Sun <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow! That is it! Thank you, Aurlien! > > I'm using debian 10.2 and clearly the kernel config option is not there. > After adding it back, the guest machine powers off correctly. > > Now I only need to figure out how to properly update initrd in a > crossbuild environment ... > > Cheers. > > Jun > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 4:49 AM Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 2020-01-24 19:05, Jun Sun wrote: >> > Here are more testing results >> > >> > - qemu 2.5 + debian10.2 + Malta + kernel4.19.0 : hangs on >> > poweroff ("reboot: System halted") for both 32bit and 64bit mipsel >> > - qemu 2.6 + debian9.11 + Malta + kernel4.9.0 : poweroff successfully >> > for both 32bit and 64bit mipsel >> > >> > Given these results, who is likely to blame? Debian? or kernel? >> >> Probably a bit of both ;-) The poweroff implementation has changed in >> kernel 4.19 (commit dd129c6374) and requires that the kernel is built >> with CONFIG_POWER_RESET_PIIX4_POWEROFF=y to work. >> >> I have pushed the fix to the Debian kernel repository. However I am not >> sure it will be fixed for Debian 10.3, maybe it will only appear in >> Debian 10.4. >> >> Aurelien >> >> -- >> Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B >> [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net >> >
