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" <jspri...@debian.org> > To: "Timothy Pearson" <tpear...@raptorengineering.com>, 990...@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 <tpear...@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
