Control: reassign -1 src:linux 4.0.2-1 On Sun, 2015-05-24 at 19:08 +0000, Mitch Winkle wrote: > 1. Older versions detect ethernet network and begin installer download > which fails because of mis-matched kernel modules. > > 2. Newer version have no ethernet support for the Cubieboard2 > (sunxi-emac) and so there is no way to download the installer. > > Used dailies from 2015-05-08 forward. > > All dailies newer than 05-12-2015 fail on loading ethernet "driver".
This seems to correspond with the switch in sid from 3.16.0-4-armmp to 4.0.0-1-armmp. An initrd with 3.16.0-4-armmp won't work against the archive any longer due to version mismatch. The initrd from http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/20150514-00:36/netboot/initrd.gz (which I think should be the first bad one) contains: /lib/modules/4.0.0-1-armmp/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/allwinner/sun4i-emac.ko So the issue isn't that the module is missing altogether. I booted the SD image from that date on a Cubieboard2 and indeed sun4i-emac.ko is not automatically loaded and loading it by hand causes no device to appear. Looking around in /proc/device-tree it seems that the _gmac_ device is marked enabled and the _emac_ device is disabled. The driver for this is stmmac. Using the image from 20150512-00:43 this is the driver which is loaded, so sunxi-emac is a red-herring I think. stmmac.ko is also included in the 20150514-00:36 but also isn't autoloaded and loading manually doesn't help. Ah, it seems like we also need a new module, stmmac-platform.ko, to be included in the nic-modules udeb. I'll arrange for that to be in the next kernel upload. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1433004604.5748.241.ca...@debian.org
