Re: 2.6 debian-installer
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:59:41AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Bruce:
>
> It sounds to me as if the path the kernel developers want us to take is
> to integrate most knowledge currently in discover and kudzu into
> hotplug. All devices present on the system should generate hotplug
> events, and the installer can capture those. Hotplug would use udev.
>
>
> Sven:
>
> This is sarge+1 d-i work though, is it not ?
>
> Since the installer isn't part of the installed system, I think it would
> be permissible to revise the installer before Sarge+1. Perhaps that
Yes, but after the sarge release, which is what i meant.
> would help to keep the installer from being a critical-path item for
> Sarge+1. I don't know what all of the tasks are yet, but I have thought
> of a bunch that are connected with hotplug.
>
> * Revise Hotplug pci.rc to use the sysfs mechanism to identify PCI
> devices and thus make it 2.6 compatible. Really trivial shell
> programming, and gets rid of the "can't synthesize PCI hotplug
> events" boot-time message. I don't understand why nobody has done
> it yet in making the rest of Debian 2.6 compatible. Perhaps nobody
> noticed? Is it in the hotplug CVS yet?
2.6 will need a bit more maturity and better architecture support for
that to happen though. Definitively post sarge release stuff.
> * Add these facilities to hotplug:
> o Detect parallel ports. Load the drivers first, then probe them.
> + Detect printers. Steal code from pconf_detect or detect.
> o Detect serial ports. Again, load the drivers first, then
> iterate through the devices enumerated in /sys/class/tty,
> probing each in non-blocking mode.
> + Detect serial modems using ATZ...OK handshake, then
> try ATIn to get more info. Is code for this in detect?
> + Detect serial printers. Steal code from pconf_detect
> or detect.
> + Can /sys/bus/input already detect serial mice? If not,
> steal code from mdetect or detect.
> o Detect monitors on video cards.
> * Add udev to the installer.
> * Write scripts to marry hotplug into various configuration tasks.
> Not just in the installer, but on a running, installed system.
> Much of this can be stolen from what we are doing with detect
> presently.
This, as i understand it, is not really the work of debian-installer,
but the base-install's responsability.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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