Bug#916695: grub-efi-arm 2.02+dfsg1-9 fails to boot Debian Buster

[Heinrich Schuchardt]

On 12/19/18 1:19 PM, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 12:15:02AM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>> I have reinstalled grub-efi-arm 2.02+dfsg1-9.
>>
>> With my current U-Boot and a custom built the 4.18.20 kernel I am able
>> to boot.
>>
>> The stock Debian kernel does not boot.
>>
>> What it takes is a U-Boot v2018.11 with these additional patches:
>>
>> * Revert "efi_loader: remove efi_exit_caches()"
>> * efi_loader: Ensure memory allocations are page aligned
>> * lib: crc32: mark static variable as __efi_runtime_data
>>   (not relevant for Tinker Board)
>>
>> and a kernel with Ard's patch
>>
>> 43b2ceb0d4e0147b114cb1d0112a988cbb81ecbc
>> efi/arm: Revert deferred unmap of early memmap mapping
> 
> Upstream commit 33412b8673135b18ea42beb7f5117ed0091798b6.
> 
>> This patch is available since Linux v4.19.6.
> 
> 4.19.9-1 is now in Sid, and I'm told that should make it across
> soon-ish. Ultimately, 
> 
> As part of this investigation, Heinrich did encounter (and address)
> another issue introduced by the same changeset (which would at least
> theoretically also affect arm64 since the first grub port):
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2018-12/msg00042.html
> 
> I'll request that that patch gets pushed, but it does already have
> maintainer Reviewed-by: (as well as mine).
> 
> Many thanks to Heinrich for excellent debugging.
> 
> /
>     Leif
> 

linux-image-4.19.0-1-armmp-lpae #1 SMP Debian 4.19.9-1 (2018-12-16)
works fine. So, please, close this issue.

Best regards

Heinrich