Re: Kirkwood ARMEL installer for Debian 12 "bookworm" fails to enumerate USB drives on Ionics-EMS Nimbus 100

["Baker, Lawrence M" <baker@usgs.gov>]

I can confirm that the failure of the Debian 12 Kirkwood ARMEL installer to enumerate USB drives on my Ionics-EMS Nimbus 100 is a Linux kernel bug.  I found another, more recent, Linux kernel at https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,12096 and booted it.  Though it also does not have UBIFS support built into the kernel (so it fails to mount my ubi0:rootfs), I can see that when it boots, my USB LEXAR FIREFLY drive is enumerated:

[    6.189582][    T8] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using orion-ehci

[    6.409884][    T8] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=05dc, idProduct=a701, bcdDevice=11.00

[    6.418850][    T8] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3

[    6.439428][    T8] usb 1-1: Product: JD FIREFLY

[    6.444099][    T8] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: LEXAR

[    6.448750][    T8] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 1069A704000328051007

[    6.470773][    T8] usb-storage 1-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected

[    6.490204][    T8] scsi host0: usb-storage 1-1:1.0

[    8.642833][    T8] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 2

See my post on the Doozan forum at https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,138142.

Please update the Debian 12 Kirkwood ARMEL kernel.  And, if you would, please include UBIFS support in the kernel to allow for an eMMC UBIFS rootfs.

Thank you,

Larry Baker
US Geological Survey (Ret.)
c. 650-784-9650
baker@usgs.gov