Bug#561036: installation-reports: Debian-Installer for PPC (daily-netinst 20091210) lacks support for powerbook5, 6 internal keyboard

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

reassign 561036 linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6 1.60
severity 561036 important
tag 561036 pending
thanks

On Tuesday 15 December 2009, Christian Adams wrote:
> In the installed system the internal keyboard is properly supported.
> After comparing installer-lsmod und lsmod of installed system it
> looks like the missing kernel-module is 'hid_apple'.

That looks very likely. Thanks for tracing that.

It seems to be available for most arches, but I doubt that including it 
makes sense for all of them:
linux-image-2.6.32-1-486 [i386] 
linux-image-2.6.32-1-4kc-malta [mipsel] 
linux-image-2.6.32-1-5kc-malta [mipsel] 
linux-image-2.6.32-1-686-bigmem [i386] 
linux-image-2.6.32-1-686 [i386] 
linux-image-2.6.32-1-amd64 [i386, amd64] 
linux-image-2.6.32-1-itanium [ia64] 
linux-image-2.6.32-1-mckinley [ia64] 
linux-image-2.6.32-1-parisc [hppa] 
linux-image-2.6.32-1-parisc64 [hppa] 
linux-image-2.6.32-1-powerpc [powerpc] 
linux-image-2.6.32-1-powerpc64 [powerpc] 
linux-image-2.6.32-1-sb1-bcm91250a [mipsel] 
linux-image-2.6.32-1-sb1a-bcm91480b [mipsel] 
linux-image-2.6.32-1-sparc64 [sparc]

For now I've only included it in input-modules for powerpc, i386 and amd64 
(all flavors).

> (it also would be a nice-to-have if the d-i team includes the .config
> of the kernel used in d-i in the .iso - could help to reproduce/research
> such failures)

The config of the D-I kernel is identical to the config of the 
corresponding kernel on installed systems, or else it is available from 
the corresponding linux-image package. For reasons of size and memory 
usage including the file will not be included in images.

Thanks again,
FJP