Bug#1050315: Please include sun8i-drm-hdmi module in installer

[harry88]

Package: fb-modules-6.4.0-3-arm64-di
Version: 6.4.11-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Dear Debian Kernel Team,

Please could you include the sun8i-drm-hdmi module in the
fb-modules udeb for arm64?

It would allow the installer to run on a local HDMI display on
some 64-bit Allwinner boards such as the Orange Pi One Plus.
(Currently installation has to be done over the serial port.)

I've suggested a patch below.

Thank you very much,
Harold.

--- debian/installer/modules/arm64/fb-modules
+++ debian/installer/modules/arm64/fb-modules.new
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@
 # For panel/backlight on Pinebook Pro
 pwm-rockchip

+# For HDMI on some sunxi platforms (e.g. Orange Pi 1+)
+sun8i-drm-hdmi
+
 # For HDMI on some rockchip platforms (e.g. rock64-rk3328)
 nvmem-rockchip-efuse
 phy-rockchip-inno-hdmi

Bug#980114: closed by Debian FTP Masters (fixed in linux 5.10.9-1)

[harry88]

> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 2:15 PM
> From: "Debian Bug Tracking System" 
> [...]
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the src:linux package:
> #980114: Please enable CONFIG_MFD_AXP20X_I2C on arm64
> [...]
>  [ Bastian Blank ]
>  [...]
>  * [arm64] Enable MFD_AXP20X_I2C. (closes: #980114)

That made all the difference, thanks. Now the kernel can talk to the PMIC and 
so Ethernet etc. works..

Much appreciated,
Harold.

Bug#980114: Please enable CONFIG_MFD_AXP20X_I2C on arm64

[harry88]

Source: linux
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

Please could you enable this module:

CONFIG_MFD_AXP20X_I2C=m   ("X-Powers AXP series PMICs with I2C")

on arm64?  Some Allwinner-based boards have this kind of PMIC and some 
components such as USB and Ethernet do not work without this module.  For 
example, kernel 5.9.11-1 on the Orange Pi One Plus gives:

[4.735203] sun50i-h6-pinctrl 300b000.pinctrl: Couldn't get bank PC regulator
[4.742423] sun50i-h6-pinctrl 300b000.pinctrl: request() failed for pin 70
[4.749345] sun50i-h6-pinctrl 300b000.pinctrl: pin-70 (300b000.pinctrl:70) 
status -517
[4.757306] sun4i-usb-phy 5100400.phy: Couldn't request ID GPIO

and:

[4.766284] sun50i-h6-pinctrl 300b000.pinctrl: Couldn't get bank PD regulator
[4.773495] sun50i-h6-pinctrl 300b000.pinctrl: request() failed for pin 96
[4.780420] sun50i-h6-pinctrl 300b000.pinctrl: pin-96 (502.ethernet) 
status -517
[4.789596] sun50i-h6-pinctrl 300b000.pinctrl: could not request pin 96 
(PD0) from group PD0  on device 300b000.pinctrl
[4.801736] dwmac-sun8i 502.ethernet: Error applying setting, reverse 
things back

Thank you very much,
Harold.

Bug#971892: linux: Please enable modules for HDMI audio

[harry88]

Thanks for the information Diederik, I hadn't noticed they had already been 
enabled for some time for arm64.

SND_SUN4I_I2S was requested in:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=921019

and DRM_DW_HDMI_I2S_AUDIO came in with ARCH_MESON which was requested in:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=852132

but both of those changes only concerned arm64.

So my request to the kernel maintainers now is for these two modules to be 
enabled for armhf as well.

Best wishes,
Harold.

Bug#971892: linux: Please enable modules for HDMI audio

[harry88]

Source: linux
Severity: normal

Hello,

Please could you enable these modules:

CONFIG_SND_SUN4I_I2S=m   ("Allwinner A10 I2S Support")
CONFIG_DRM_DW_HDMI_I2S_AUDIO=m   ("Synopsys Designware I2S Audio interface")

in the next kernel?  They would allow HDMI audio to work on various 
Allwinner-based ARM boards.

Thank you very much,
Harold.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: armhf (armv7l)

Kernel: Linux 5.8.0-0.bpo.2-armmp (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_PH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_PH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_PH:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled