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Bug#1031289: linux: Missing sound drivers (and speakup) in d-i on arm64



On Monday, 20 February 2023 00:27:57 CET Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Diederik de Haas, le lun. 20 févr. 2023 00:14:19 +0100, a ecrit:
> > On Tuesday, 14 February 2023 18:10:11 CET Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > Some people on debian-accessibility wanted to install debian in arm64
> > > under the utm wrapped qemu on Macos. The current installation images
> > > however do not include sound drivers and speakup.
> > 
> > Currently working on a MR to achieve that, but ...
> > 
> > > ... indeed, it seems these modules are getting built only for
> > > amd64, 686, mips, sh4.
> > 
> > ... this architecture list seems rather random? Why not also add it to
> > f.e.
> > armhf, which itself is also a rather random not-previously-enabled-arch?
> 
> I don't see why we shouldn't indeed. If some drivers didn't make sense
> on these archs they would rather be disabled by the arch configuration
> anyway. Speakup itself is portable and should be working on any arch,
> provided it has a virtual console.
> 
> The only historical reason I can see is that it was enabled only for
> architectures which have a gtk installer image (for which we consider
> that size doesn't matter).

On https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ I checked the links under
"other images (netboot, USB stick, etc.)" for the presence of a "netboot/gtk/" 
folder and that turned out to be arm64 and armhf, so I'll only add those.

If other arches should be added too, that can be done later.

Cheers,
  Diederik

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