On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:56:03PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 12 September 2005 03:23, Jurij Smakov wrote: > > 2. What changes need to be done to integrate a new initrd-generating > > tool into the kernel packaging infrastracture. It might be as simple as > > switching the postinst of kernel packages from running mkinitrd to > > running yaird. I have no idea what issues may arise in d-i because of > > that. > The major issue for d-i with 2.6.13 is the dropped devfs support. However, > there already is support for udev in d-i; what's currently missing is a > udeb for hotplug. What we have was backported by Colin Watson from > Ubuntu; for hotplug we can probably do the same. Marco d'Itri has also talked about his plans to incorporate coldplug into udev. If we have coldplug, do we need a separate hotplug udeb? > This needs to be resolved before 2.6.13 can enter unstable and we can > start on this as soon as we have a new beta for d-i based on the 2.6.12 > kernels (which has of course been waiting for 2.6.12 to enter testing and > the major transitions to settle down somewhat). We can start work on the > beta as soon as daily CD building is back up. 2.6.12 has now entered testing. > initrdfs is a separate issue, and really two issues. I guess you mean initramfs here? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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