Bug#800085: linux-image-4.1.0-2-armmp: The ethernet fails to come up on my Allwinner A10 device.
Sorry but I don't agree with you. Supposing the allwinner A10 device need some voltage regulator drivers to be enabled in the kernel to have some devices in a working state, this not hurts some other devices that have some other configuration setting different in hardware layout. They are defined in the device tree for this particular machine, vendor or somewhere else. So the drivers for the regulator can be safely inserted into the A10 Debian kernel and you will don't break down anything.
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> ha scritto:
>Control: tag -1 - newcomer
>Control: tag -1 moreinfo
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>On Sat, 2015-09-26 at 12:10 -0400, Matthew Schneider wrote:
>> Package: src:linux
>> Version: 4.1.6-1
>> Severity: important
>> Tags: newcomer
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> * What led up to the situation?
>> Attempted to install the mainline Debian kernel for the first time on
>> this system.
>> * What was the outcome of this action?
>> The ethernet did not come up.
>>
>> The problem seems to be outlined and solved here:
>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm.sunxi/17147
>>
>> It would seem that an additional module needs to be included for it
>> to work correctly.
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>None of the extra modules that were enabled as a 'solution' have
>anything to do with this hardware (or any real hardware). So I don't
>think we have a real solution.
>
>Please send the boot log from Linux 4.1 (or 4.2, which just landed in
>unstable).
>
>Ben.
>
>--
>Ben Hutchings
>Any smoothly functioning technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
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