On Sat, Apr 08, 2017 at 05:39:20PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >On 2017-04-08, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> We need an answer, so as to update the documentation: is USB still not >> supported in the stretch kernel on arm64? >> >> victory, on Mon 30 Jan 2017 21:53:52 +0900, wrote: >>> boot-installer/arm.xml:108- >>> ... Also USB is not supported in the jessie kernel so >>> installing from a USB stick does not work. ... > >This apparently is referring to apm-mustang rather than arm64 in >general... > >I don't much about that platform, but there doesn't appear to be any >mention of enabled USB in arch/arm64/boot/dts/apm/apm-mustang.dts in >linux 4.9.x. There's mention of it in the apm-storm.dtsi which it >includes, but it's marked as disabled there. > >So, unless it's implemented outside of the device-tree, or I'm >misreading that, I'd say it's safe to say it's still disabled.
On the Mustang, you need to be using the firmware-provided DTB. Assuming a sane, recent UEFI firmware things USB boot should work just fine. I got it working for the first Jessie point release too, after doing a temporary build in http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/arm64-mustang/ . I've not tested a stretch installation directly on a Mustang lately. The machine I used for the jessie testing has since been repurposed as a buildd. I'll see if I can access to test another. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back
