Bug#944546: linux-source: Require build and include Hisilicon Hibmc drm driver in the installer
Hi!
On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 12:32:09AM +0800, She Kairui wrote:
>Package: linux-source
>Version: 4.19.0-6
>Severity: important
>
>I'm trying to install Debian buster on to the Huawei Kunpeng arm64 server,
>found that the installation graphic output not show up via the server BMC
>virtual console.
>
>Huawei Kunpeng arm64 server using a hibmc chip on the mainboard, the lspci
>output of the VGA device is:
>
> ~$ lspci -nn | grep VGA
> 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
>Hi1710 [iBMC Intelligent Management system chip w/VGA support] [19e5:1711] (rev
>01)
>
>Currently the kernel VGA driver module (hibmc_drm.ko) was not included in the
>netboot initrd (http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-arm64/
>20190702+deb10u1/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz) .
>
>I have verified the BMC virtual console graphic output works well after adding
>the hibmc_drm.ko into the netboot initrd, could you please help to built and
>include this driver module in the installer?
I've just added a merge request for this:
https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/merge_requests/209
I'll add another MR for the "sid" branch in a moment.
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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