Bug#1079441: linux-image-rpi IR support
Package: linux-image-rpi
Version: 6.9.7-1~bpo12+1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Debian rpi kernel has missing IR support in because it has not set CONFIG_IR_GPIO_CIR and CONFIG_IR_GPIO_TX.
Every user who needs IR support has to recompile kernel from source.
Can we enable GPIO support by default?
In rpi kernel source
(https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/tree/rpi-6.10.y) can be found dts
files for booth modules required to enable IR. Here is an example how
config.txt should be changed:
dtoverlay=gpio-ir,gpio_pin=14
dtoverlay=gpio-ir-tx,gpio_pin=15
According to ./arch/arm/boot/dts/overlays/README gpio-ir is an
gpio_ir_recv module. Kernel config should be also adjusted to enable
those modules:
CONFIG_IR_GPIO_CIR=m
CONFIG_IR_GPIO_TX=m
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.6
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: armel (armv6l)
Kernel: Linux 6.9.7+bpo-rpi (UP)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CRAP
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages linux-image-rpi depends on:
ii linux-image-6.9.7+bpo-rpi 6.9.7-1~bpo12+1
linux-image-rpi recommends no packages.
linux-image-rpi suggests no packages.
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