#929427 grub-common: Please add support for devicetree command

Package:
grub-common
Source:
grub2
Description:
GRand Unified Bootloader (common files)
Submitter:
Dimitri John Ledkov
Date:
2026-01-12 14:03:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#929427#5
Date:
2019-05-23 10:22:57 UTC
From:
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Dear Maintainer,

I am booting from an arm64 laptop, with secureboot turned off, and I
need to provide a devicetree blob for the time being.

I adjusted flash-kernel database, to install device tree blob into
/boot, however 10_linux in grub doesn't automatically pick it up.

The attached patch adds tests in 10_linux, similar to how initrd is
detected and generates menu entries with devicetree command and I
manage to boot and upgrade kernels on arm64 laptop.

Please consider including this patch in Debian.

Regards,

Dimitri.

#929427#10
Date:
2019-05-23 10:36:14 UTC
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Could you please send this patch upstream (rebased as necessary) first?
We can then cherry-pick it, but I don't see why this would need to be
Debian-specific.

Thanks,

#929427#17
Date:
2026-01-12 13:56:39 UTC
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Hi,

There are more and more arm based laptops coming to market. I bought
mine a year ago, a Lenovo Thinkbook 16 with an x1p42100 chip. I'm
growing a bit tired managing grub config by hand, can we just adopt the
dtb patch?

Upstream seems a bit clueless wrt devicetrees...