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 From: obbardc@debian.org 
  
 Package: wnpp 
 Severity: wishlist 
 Owner: Christopher Obbard  
 X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Christopher Obbard 
 obbardc@debian.org>, Tobias Heider  
  
   Package name    : stubble 
   Version         : v3 
   Upstream Contact: Tobias Heider  
   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. 
  
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