Bug#809521: USB Keyboard don't work

[Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 12:59:57PM +0100, Bernhard wrote:

> reopen 809521
> Thanks
> 
> Hello Karsten
> Hello Ben
> 
> The USB keyboard don't work with the current SD-card-image contained
> in:
> debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-armhf/20160106/images/netboot/SD-
> card-images
> So: reopen this bug report.

I have tried to debug this further and am a bit confused. It
looks as if USB HID support is completely missing in the armhf
installer builds. The input-module list for armhf at

  https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/kernel/linux.git/tree/debian/installer/armhf/modules/armhf-armmp/input-modules?h=sid

shows:

  #include <input-modules>
  usbhid -
  usbmouse -
  usbkbd -

So USB HID support is explicitly excluded from the input-modules
udeb for armhf although it would normally be included.  This has
been done in commit 55058170 in September 2013, so USB keyboard
support shouldn't have worked for ages, but I am rather sure to
have done test installs of locally-built d-i versions on armhf
with a USB keyboard in 2015.

https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Allwinner?action=diff&rev1=66&rev2=67
also indicates that this has worked for somebody else in August
2015.

The only explanation that I can currently imagine is that HID
support was perhaps compiled into the kernel in earlier versions
or the modules got pulled in as part of a dependeny chain during
the kernel-wedge run nonetheless, so that blocking the inclusion
of USB HID support into the udeb wouldn't have had any effect.

I'll do a test build with usbhid included into input-modules, but
that will take some time.

Regards,
Karsten
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