Debian-installer missing mmc bcm2835 module

[Adam Smith]

Testing the latest arm64 18.04 mini ISO on a raspberry pi 3, I found the internal sd card reader was not recognised. This is the main storage on a pi. Manually extracting the mmc/host/bcm2835 module from the extras package and insmod'ing it got it working on the d-i installer.

It would be great if the sd card could be recognised out of the box. I think all that is needed is to include the module in the block storage udeb.

Note the pi has two SD controllers. A second is used for the WiFi (but can also be used for the sd card reader). That is also missing from the debian installer as far as I can tell.

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[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

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http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1761468

[Adam Smith (adamsmith)]

Background info on mmc modules in raspberry pi - https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=71&p=1298290#p1298290