I cloned the original bug and assigned the new one to the kernel. On Sat, 2015-11-14 at 13:28 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: [...] > it looks as if we have two separate issues here. One of them is a > bug in ethdetect, which should be fixed with the attached patch. > With this patch applied, the hang does not occur anymore, but d-i > doesn't detect any network interface either. This in turn seems > to stem from missing modules, which is the result of a series of > upstream kernel changes to the stmmac driver that have split out > functionality from an existing module into different sub-modules: [...] > As a result, the installer nic-modules list in the Debian kernel > package needs to be adjusted accordingly. I'll prepare a patch > for the kernel package, but I probably won't be able to actually > test it before tomorrow as building it takes quite some time on > my (comparatively slow) hardware.
Based on the platform modules that are currently being selected, I'm
intending to apply this:
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 0053bf9..5eca6d3 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ linux (4.3-1~exp2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
* [armhf] Enable new drivers for Allwinner chips (Closes: #804856)
- crypto: Enable CRYPTO_DEV_SUN4I_SS as module
- musb: Enable USB_MUSB_SUNXI as module
+ * [armhf] udeb: Add stmmac platform modules dwmac-generic, dwmac-socfpga
+ and dwmac-sunxi to nic-modules (Closes: #805098)
[ Ian Campbell ]
* [armel/orion5x] Enable Device Tree for orion5x. Patch from Roger Shimizu
diff --git a/debian/config/armhf/config.armmp b/debian/config/armhf/config.armmp
index 4d65053..d6ce545 100644
--- a/debian/config/armhf/config.armmp
+++ b/debian/config/armhf/config.armmp
@@ -596,6 +596,9 @@ CONFIG_SMSC911X=m
## file: drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Kconfig
##
CONFIG_STMMAC_ETH=m
+CONFIG_DWMAC_GENERIC=m
+CONFIG_DWMAC_SOCFPGA=m
+CONFIG_DWMAC_SUNXI=m
##
## file: drivers/net/ethernet/ti/Kconfig
diff --git a/debian/installer/armhf/modules/armhf-armmp/nic-modules
b/debian/installer/armhf/modules/armhf-armmp/nic-modules
index 13086f0..e3d0df7 100644
--- a/debian/installer/armhf/modules/armhf-armmp/nic-modules
+++ b/debian/installer/armhf/modules/armhf-armmp/nic-modules
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ mvmdio
smsc911x
stmmac
stmmac-platform
+dwmac-generic
+dwmac-socfpga
+dwmac-sunxi
sun4i-emac
xgmac
ti_cpsw
--
Ben Hutchings
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
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