Bug#1029843: live-boot: Devices Requiring Firmware: multiple requested files in single line overlapping / special characters

2023-05-03 Thread Pete Batard
Hello all and sorry for pinging in late into this conversation. First of all, as someone who noticed the original issue but never got around to properly report or investigate it, a big thanks go to the people here who have been devoting time and effort trying to get to the bottom of it, and

Bug#985956: #985956 - missing kernel module in installer

2021-05-14 Thread Pete Batard
Hi Wookey, Thanks a lot for looking into this! On 2021.05.14 03:08, Wookey wrote: I've done this, and if you want to test the mini.iso image at: http://wookware.org/software/rpi4-test.iso That would be good. (I don't have an rpi4 to test on) Just tested it, and I can confirm it fixes the

Bug#985956: #985956 - missing kernel module in installer

2021-04-28 Thread Pete Batard
For reference I have submitted a new pull request against src:linux that attempts to fix this in https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/350 As people who monitor the Debian ARM64 mailing list should be aware, this is a rather major issue, that people wanting to install

Bug#950578: linux-image-4.19.67-2-arm64: Add ACPI network interface support for RPi4

2020-05-09 Thread Pete Batard
On 2020.05.09 22:20, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2020-05-07 at 14:23 +0100, Pete Batard wrote: [...] I specifically designed the patch I submitted for easy review and integration, because there are missing elements from 4.x that are present in 5.x, that we have to compensate for. I would

Bug#950578: linux-image-4.19.67-2-arm64: Add ACPI network interface support for RPi4

2020-05-07 Thread Pete Batard
On 2020.05.07 13:45, Ben Hutchings wrote: Also, there would be no point in enabling this driver in 4.19, only to have people find on upgrade to the next version on Debian that we didn't enable it there. That's why we're concerned with both versions. Yes, I did consider that, but I feel that

Bug#950578: linux-image-4.19.67-2-arm64: Add ACPI network interface support for RPi4

2020-05-07 Thread Pete Batard
I would really like to get an update on this, because I really can't understand what the holdup is, or why non related issues seem to be be shoved into this bug, with the apparent end result of completely distracting from the matter at hand. This bug is about one thing and one thing only:

Bug#950578: fixed in linux 5.5.13-1

2020-03-30 Thread Pete Batard
Does that mean that the next Debian ISO installer will use Linux kernel 5.5.13.1 or later? Because, if that is not the case, this bug is certainly not fixed at all and must be reopened. To reiterate, the problem is that the official netinst ISO cannot perform a network installation of the

Bug#950578: (no subject)

2020-03-03 Thread Pete Batard
Just going to point out that the 5.x equivalent patch has now been applied to Linux mainline as per: https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/20200224.153146.125327154283545636.da...@davemloft.net/ Could we get some acknowledgement that this patchset is being looked at for possible integration and isn't

Bug#950578: Updated patch

2020-02-25 Thread Pete Batard
Foundation declares the network interface (though using it as such in a 4.19 kernel will require the provision of the "brcm,max-dma-burst-size" attribute). Signed-off-by: Pete Batard --- .../net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c| 74 ++- drivers/net/ethernet

Bug#950578: (no subject)

2020-02-14 Thread Pete Batard
Just gonna add that the latest UEFI Firmware, released today at https://github.com/pftf/RPi4/releases, now contains all the elements needed (ACPI binding and UMAC initialization) for the above patch to work. Which means that, the only limiting factor for UEFI Debian 10.x netinst on a

Bug#950578: linux-image-4.19.67-2-arm64: Add ACPI network interface support for RPi4 (patch attached)

2020-02-03 Thread Pete Batard
the provision of the "brcm,max-dma-burst-size" attribute). Signed-off-by: Pete Batard --- .../net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c| 74 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmmii.c | 33 - drivers/net/phy/mdio-bcm-unimac.c | 26 ++- 3 files ch