Bug#370667: I2O modules for 64bit platforms
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 02:54:47PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> > > Which architectures include support for i2o_block?
> >
> > It's available on amd64, hppa, i386, ia64, powerpc. I tested it on amd64.
>
> And dpt_i2o is not available on 64 bit, so if we're adding i2o_block to
> only arches that lack dpt_i20, then i2o_block should be added to
> ia64, hppa, powerpc(64?).
And amd64.
> > > And if dpt_i2o does
> > > the same thing for i386, whouldn't we include i2o_block only for those
> > > architectures that do not have dpt_i2o?
> >
> > Seems fine. Unless there are other advantages in using i2o_block that would
> > justify replacing dpt_i2o in 32bit arches; but I don't know about that.
>
> Right, of course the user would need to load it by hand in that case,
> since at least on i386 there's nothing to make udev load it.
For the d-i rescue system, I thought this was handled by discover. Am I right?
There's i2o_block support in discover, although not working on my hardware. I
think it just needs a new entry for this PCI id.
For the installed system, doesn't the patch in #318120 address this?
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