Re: Bug#772953: Enable several Kconfigs to support OMAP5432 uEVM devboard
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-12-23 at 16:27 +0800, Chen Baozi wrote:
>> I have a glance at the kernel’s installer configs and tried the netboot
>> without any modification. Some work should be done to make debian-installer
>> support OMAP5 uEVM (e.g., ethernet driver etc).
>
> Right, those should be listed in e.g.
> debian/installer/armhf/modules/armhf-armmp/nic-modules.
>
>> By waiting the kernel building with some initial attempted configs added,
>> just one question to ask. I looked through the
>> debian/installer/armhf/modules/armhf-armmp/, but it looks like none of
>> files is about regulator modules. However, according to my previous
>> experience, missing regulator driver modules is the main reason that
>> the old debian kernel doesn’t support OMAP5 uEVM. How does debian-installer
>> deal with this situation (if it does need extra regulator drivers included?)
>
> Long term its a bit of an open question what we do wrt modules such as
> regulators, clocks, pinctrl etc.
>
> So far we have been a bit lucky: either such things are so central to
> the platform that it is acceptable (at least for now) to just build them
> into the main kernel binary by making them =y (e.g. CONFIG_I2C_S3C2410
> which is for the main power controller on arndale) or they are closely
> associated with some particular device and it makes sense to put them in
> that udeb (e.g. phy-exynos5250-sata in sata-modules, or phy-sun4i-usb in
> usb-modules).
>
> Eventually I expect that we will end up creating separate udebs for
> these things, but I'm hoping that we can defer that until at least
> Stretch to avoid needing to mess around with any more new packages for
> Jessie.
>
> If uEVM has some module which either shouldn't be built in or isn't
> obviously associated with a particular device let us know what it is and
> we can have a think about how best to approach it.
>
> One thing I've played with, and I'm not sure if this is acceptable or
> not, is to put core drivers which aren't =y into the kernel-image udeb
> itself. I'm not really sure if that's a good idea, we don't currently do
> this for anything AFAIK, but it's perhaps an option.
With the attached patch applied, debian installer (tested with network-console)
can support OMAP5's ethernet driver and external MicroSD card.
Note that I added related regulator & phy entries to files that mainly writes
the modules which use them, since there is no file dedicated to those
modules.
Baozi.
---
diff -Nru linux-3.16.7/debian/installer/armhf/modules/armhf-armmp/mmc-modules
linux-3.16.7-ckt2/debian/installer/armhf/modules/armhf-armmp/mmc-modules
--- linux-3.16.7/debian/installer/armhf/modules/armhf-armmp/mmc-modules
2014-09-21 20:04:21.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-3.16.7-ckt2/debian/installer/armhf/modules/armhf-armmp/mmc-modules
2014-12-26 03:16:02.000000000 +0000
@@ -4,3 +4,5 @@
omap_hsmmc
sunxi-mmc
dw_mmc-exynos
+pbias-regulator
+palmas-regulator
diff -Nru linux-3.16.7/debian/installer/armhf/modules/armhf-armmp/usb-modules
linux-3.16.7-ckt2/debian/installer/armhf/modules/armhf-armmp/usb-modules
--- linux-3.16.7/debian/installer/armhf/modules/armhf-armmp/usb-modules
2014-12-23 08:10:49.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-3.16.7-ckt2/debian/installer/armhf/modules/armhf-armmp/usb-modules
2014-12-25 02:56:08.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
#include <usb-modules>
phy-sun4i-usb
dwc3-exynos
ohci-exynos
ehci-exynos
phy-exynos-usb2
ci_hdrc_imx
+phy-mxs-usb
+dwc3-omap
+ohci-omap3
+ehci-omap
+phy-omap-usb2
+phy-ti-pipe3
Reply to: