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and subject line Closing this bug (BTS maintenance for src:linux bugs)
has caused the Debian Bug report #1079441,
regarding linux-image-rpi IR support
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1079441: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1079441
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: linux-image-rpi
Version: 6.9.7-1~bpo12+1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Debian rpi kernel has missing IR support in because it has not set
CONFIG_IR_GPIO_CIR and CONFIG_IR_GPIO_TX.
Every user who needs IR support has to recompile kernel from source.
Can we enable GPIO support by default?
In rpi kernel source
(https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/tree/rpi-6.10.y) can be found dts
files for booth modules required to enable IR. Here is an example how
config.txt should be changed:
dtoverlay=gpio-ir,gpio_pin=14
dtoverlay=gpio-ir-tx,gpio_pin=15
According to ./arch/arm/boot/dts/overlays/README gpio-ir is an
gpio_ir_recv module. Kernel config should be also adjusted to enable
those modules:
CONFIG_IR_GPIO_CIR=m
CONFIG_IR_GPIO_TX=m
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.6
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: armel (armv6l)
Kernel: Linux 6.9.7+bpo-rpi (UP)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CRAP
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages linux-image-rpi depends on:
ii linux-image-6.9.7+bpo-rpi 6.9.7-1~bpo12+1
linux-image-rpi recommends no packages.
linux-image-rpi suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi
This bug was filed for a (very) old kernel or the bug is old itself
without resolution. Maybe it was for a feature enablement which nobody
acted on. We are sorry we were not able to timely deal with this issue.
There are many open bugs for the src:linux package and thus we are
closing older bugs where it's unclear if they still occur in newer
versions and are still relevant to the reporter. For an overview see:
https://bugs.debian.org/src:linux .
If you can reproduce your issue with
- the current version in unstable/testing
- the latest kernel from backports
or, if it was a feature addition/wishlist and still consider it
relevant, then:
Please reopen the bug, see https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control
for details.
Please try to provide as much fresh details including kernel logs where
relevant. In particular were an issue is coupled with specific hardware we
might ask you to do additional debugging on your side as the owner of the
hardware.
Regards,
Salvatore
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