Bug#805098: [armhf] stmmac platform modules missing from nic-modules
On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 06:17:32PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-11-14 at 13:28 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote:
> [...]
> > it looks as if we have two separate issues here. One of them is a
> > bug in ethdetect, which should be fixed with the attached patch.
> > With this patch applied, the hang does not occur anymore, but d-i
> > doesn't detect any network interface either. This in turn seems
> > to stem from missing modules, which is the result of a series of
> > upstream kernel changes to the stmmac driver that have split out
> > functionality from an existing module into different sub-modules:
> [...]
> > As a result, the installer nic-modules list in the Debian kernel
> > package needs to be adjusted accordingly. I'll prepare a patch
> > for the kernel package, but I probably won't be able to actually
> > test it before tomorrow as building it takes quite some time on
> > my (comparatively slow) hardware.
>
> Based on the platform modules that are currently being selected, I'm
> intending to apply this:
>
> diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
> index 0053bf9..5eca6d3 100644
> --- a/debian/changelog
> +++ b/debian/changelog
> @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ linux (4.3-1~exp2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
> * [armhf] Enable new drivers for Allwinner chips (Closes: #804856)
> - crypto: Enable CRYPTO_DEV_SUN4I_SS as module
> - musb: Enable USB_MUSB_SUNXI as module
> + * [armhf] udeb: Add stmmac platform modules dwmac-generic, dwmac-socfpga
> + and dwmac-sunxi to nic-modules (Closes: #805098)
>
> [ Ian Campbell ]
> * [armel/orion5x] Enable Device Tree for orion5x. Patch from Roger Shimizu
> diff --git a/debian/config/armhf/config.armmp b/debian/config/armhf/config.armmp
> index 4d65053..d6ce545 100644
> --- a/debian/config/armhf/config.armmp
> +++ b/debian/config/armhf/config.armmp
> @@ -596,6 +596,9 @@ CONFIG_SMSC911X=m
> ## file: drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Kconfig
> ##
> CONFIG_STMMAC_ETH=m
> +CONFIG_DWMAC_GENERIC=m
> +CONFIG_DWMAC_SOCFPGA=m
> +CONFIG_DWMAC_SUNXI=m
>
> ##
> ## file: drivers/net/ethernet/ti/Kconfig
> diff --git a/debian/installer/armhf/modules/armhf-armmp/nic-modules b/debian/installer/armhf/modules/armhf-armmp/nic-modules
> index 13086f0..e3d0df7 100644
> --- a/debian/installer/armhf/modules/armhf-armmp/nic-modules
> +++ b/debian/installer/armhf/modules/armhf-armmp/nic-modules
> @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ mvmdio
> smsc911x
> stmmac
> stmmac-platform
> +dwmac-generic
> +dwmac-socfpga
> +dwmac-sunxi
> sun4i-emac
> xgmac
> ti_cpsw
Hello Ben,
I've just looked at the debian kernel repository and have seen
that the patch is in the master (kernel 4.3) branch, but not in
the sid (kernel 4.2) branch. The problem exists already in
kernel 4.2 - could you apply the patch to the sid branch as well?
Regards,
Karsten
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