On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 10:24:21AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Kernel .udeb and the way to handle out-of-tree and non-free modules
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> Bastian Blank and Sven Luther summarize the needed changes in D-I:
>
> - anna: allow selection of the components
> - libdebian-installer: support reading of more than one packages file
> - ftp.debian.org: experimental udeb section
And at least the sections main and non-free.
> (post-meeting comment by Joey Hess: "which Leaves off the whole issue
> of modules needed before anna is available")
This is correct.
There are two possibilities:
- cdrom and similar:
At least on the main architectures, I don't no any new system which
use anything else than pata/sata for cdrom/dvd. For current kernels,
sata cdrom needs a special setting anyway.
- network:
AFAIK the following drivers are effected:
- tg3. Can work without firmware and there is a patch floating around
which modifies them to use the firmware loader.
- ipw2100, ipw2200: I don't even know if the firmware is
distributable.
> Loading non-free firmware is mentioned to be only dropping the
> firmware files in /lib/firmware so that they're loaded by udev
And we need a special firmware agent, which don't make the loading fail
if the file is not available yet. This also needs some communication
with anna to load the required firmwares.
> (post-meeting comment: we also need to install them in /lib/firmware
> on the installed system in base-installer, probably)
Correct.
> Work about persistent device naming scheme
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My current plans for s390, if I'm able to finish that, always needs
device names in the /dev/disk/by-path form, as it is the only one which
provides the neccesary information to also configure the underlaying
device.
Bastian
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