On Sun, 2016-01-10 at 16:48 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote:
> Control: tags -1 patch
>
> On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 03:33:04PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 12:59:57PM +0100, Bernhard wrote:
> [...]
> > > 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
> [...]
> > 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
> > usbhid -
> > usbmouse -
> > usbkbd -
> >
> > So USB HID support is explicitly excluded from the input-modules
> > udeb for armhf although it would normally be included.
> [...]
> > I'll do a test build with usbhid included into input-modules, but
> > that will take some time.
>
> I have in the meantime finished a test build of the Debian kernel
> package (sid branch) with the attached patch applied. The patch
> seems to solve the issue; with it a USB keyboard on an A20-based
> board works for me in d-i.
>
> Ben, could you apply the patch to the sid and master branches?
I removed all the exclusions. (We don't want usbmouse and usbkbd, but
we haven't built those for years and AFAIK never on armhf...)
Ben.
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