Bug#762066: CONFIG_OCTEON_USB=y

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 08:48:35PM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
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> Am 18.09.14 um 19:15 schrieb Aurelien Jarno
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> > On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 07:25:09AM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> > 
> > > Package: linux-image-octeon
> > 
> > > Version: 3.16+60
> > 
> > > Severity: important
> > 
> > > 
> > 
> > > Booting from the internal USB drive of an Ubiquity EdgeRouter Lite requires
> > 
> > > CONFIG_OCTEON_USB=y
> > 
> > > 
> > 
> > > Please, add this to the kernel config file of Octeon Linux images.
> > 
> > > 
> > 
> > > At least as of Kernel 3.17-rc4 the driver works without problems.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Why do you need it defined as built-in? Couldn't it be defined as a
> > 
> > module instead and then loaded though by initramfs?
> > 
> 
> If using initramfs this would be on the same partition of the USB device as vmlinux.

True

> U-boot loads vmlinux. How can vmlinux read initramfs from USB without built in USB
> support? Which package will generate initramfs?

vmlinux doesn't load the initramfs, it's the responsibility of U-boot to
do so. The initramfs should be created automatically with a recent
Debian kernel (>= 3.14).

In your case we still need to activate CONFIG_OCTEON_USB. That could be
done easily as a module, we don't want it as built-in.

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