Currently we we have a separate udeb usb-discover for USB detection and
activation, with a boot parameter debian-installer/probe/usb.
The udeb uses PCI ID lists from discover and/or some info from
/sys/bus/pci/devices to load the core USB drivers ({U,O,E}HCI) and then
loads usb keyboard, hid and serial modules.
This is done during debian-installer-startup.d processing.
IMO this can be simplified a lot because currently the core USB modules
will be loaded automatically by the kernel/udev anyway, making the
debian-installer/probe/usb parameter rather useless.
I propose to drop the usb-discover udeb completely and instead add a
simple script in rootskel (see patch below) to load the keyboard, hid and
serial modules if USB is supported.
Of course, some changes under installer/build and the manual will be
needed as well if the udeb and the boot parameter are dropped.
Cheers,
FJP
Index: src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S33usb-linux
===================================================================
--- src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S33usb-linux (revision 0)
+++ src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S33usb-linux (revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Setup USB
+if [ -e /sys/bus/usb ]; then
+ modprobe -q usbkbd || true
+ modprobe -q usbhid || true
+ modprobe -q usbserial || true
+fi
Index: src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/Makefile
===================================================================
--- src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/Makefile (revision 46401)
+++ src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/Makefile (working copy)
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@
S35term
ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS),linux)
+ files += \
+ S33usb-linux
+
ifneq (,$(filter i386 amd64,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU)))
files += \
S05acpi-linux-x86 \
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