Bug#990016: Debian installer images missing ASpeed video driver

From	Timothy Pearson <tpearson@raptorengineering.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#990016: Debian installer images missing ASpeed video driver
Date	2021-09-03 00:30 +0200
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We just got hit with this again, in a customer-facing issue this time.  The ASpeed video driver is going to be useful for nearly any non-x86 platform; i.e. any platform that is not likely to have a standard video BIOS / character mode display fallback but still have a display attached.  That means ppc64el, arm64, riscv, sparc64 in practice.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jochen Sprickerhof" <jspricke@debian.org>
> To: "Timothy Pearson" <tpearson@raptorengineering.com>, 990016@bugs.debian.org
> Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2021 1:09:14 PM
> Subject: Re: Bug#990016: Debian installer images missing ASpeed video driver

> Control: reassign -1 src:linux
> 
> Hi Timothy,
> 
> * Timothy Pearson <tpearson@raptorengineering.com> [2021-06-17 15:46]:
>>The current Bullseye installer images don't include the "ast" video driver,
>>making it impossible to install Debian on systems that don't have a fallback
>>VGA BIOS (anything non-x86, e.g. ARM/OpenPOWER).
>>
>>Ubuntu fixed this issue almost 5 years ago:
>>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1514711
>>
>>Please include the "ast" kernel module, which does not require any proprietary
>>firmware to function, in the Debian installer CD images.
> 
> The module is part of the fb-modules-5.10.0-7-arm64-di:
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/blob/master/debian/installer/modules/arm64/fb-modules#L3
> 
> and fb-modules-5.10.0-7-loongson-3-di:
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/blob/master/debian/installer/modules/mipsel-loongson-3/fb-modules#L5
> 
> Additionally CONFIG_DRM_AST is enabled for ppc64:
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/blob/master/debian/config/kernelarch-powerpc/config-arch-64#L94
> 
> and x86:
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/blob/master/debian/config/kernelarch-x86/config#L519
> 
> So I assume it should be easy to add the module to the corresponding
> udebs. Reassigning to the linux package, accordingly.
> 
> I guess it would help if you could be more specific on which
> architectures it would be useful.
> 
> Cheers Jochen

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