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Bug#1106658: installation-reports: Touchpad not active

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Hi Cyril,

On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 09:38:51PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Looping in debian-kernel@, context being missing touchpad support on an
> amd64 machine, unless an extra module is added to the installer.
> 
> Feel free to steal the bug report away from us and adjust
> debian/installer/modules as you see fit!
> 
> Roland Clobus <rclobus@rclobus.nl> (2025-05-28):
> > On 27/05/2025 19:20, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> > > It looks like #1104057. Does lsmod show a pinctrl* module on a
> > > system with working touchpad ?
> > 
> > I've built a custom installer and `pinctrl-meteorlake` does the trick.
> > With this additional kernel module the touchpad works in the graphical
> > installer.
> 
> Checking linux.git, it seems pinctrl modules are only shipped in udebs
> for a single arch:
> 
>     kibi@tokyo:~/debian-kernel/linux.git (debian/6.12/trixie <)$ git grep pinctrl -- debian/installer/
>     debian/installer/modules/arm64/kernel-image:drivers/pinctrl/**
> 
> I'm not sure how many pinctrl modules would make sense to ship, or in
> which udeb, for other architectures.
> 
> Looking at the amd64 config, the modular ones are:
> 
>     CONFIG_PINCTRL_ALDERLAKE=m
>     CONFIG_PINCTRL_CS42L43=m
>     CONFIG_PINCTRL_ELKHARTLAKE=m
>     CONFIG_PINCTRL_EMMITSBURG=m
>     CONFIG_PINCTRL_INTEL_PLATFORM=m
>     CONFIG_PINCTRL_JASPERLAKE=m
>     CONFIG_PINCTRL_LAKEFIELD=m
>     CONFIG_PINCTRL_METEORLAKE=m
>     CONFIG_PINCTRL_METEORPOINT=m
> 
> while the built-in ones are:
> 
>     CONFIG_PINCTRL_AMD=y
>     CONFIG_PINCTRL_BAYTRAIL=y
>     CONFIG_PINCTRL_CHERRYVIEW=y
>     CONFIG_PINCTRL_INTEL=y
>     CONFIG_PINCTRL_BROXTON=y
>     CONFIG_PINCTRL_CANNONLAKE=y
>     CONFIG_PINCTRL_CEDARFORK=y
>     CONFIG_PINCTRL_DENVERTON=y
>     CONFIG_PINCTRL_GEMINILAKE=y
>     CONFIG_PINCTRL_ICELAKE=y
>     CONFIG_PINCTRL_LEWISBURG=y
>     CONFIG_PINCTRL_SUNRISEPOINT=y
>     CONFIG_PINCTRL_TIGERLAKE=y

Can you double-check if
https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/1530 make
sense to you?

If yes, feel free to reassign it to src:linux. And then we should mark
it as well as to be backported for 6.12.y for trixie.

Regards,
Salvatore

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Bug#1106658: installation-reports: Touchpad not active Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2025-05-28 21:50 +0200
  Bug#1106658: installation-reports: Touchpad not active Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2025-05-29 09:50 +0200
    Bug#1106658: installation-reports: Touchpad not active Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2025-05-29 16:00 +0200
    Bug#1106658: installation-reports: Touchpad not active Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2025-05-29 22:10 +0200

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