Re: Bug#725714: udev firmware loading does not work in the Debian installer
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Michael Biebl <email@michaelbiebl.de> wrote:
> Am 13.12.2013 00:12, schrieb Andreas Cadhalpun:
>> The Debian installer needs a way to load the firmware during
>> installation, otherwise the netinst.iso is pretty useless for WLAN
>> devices with non-free firmware.
>> Since a majority of the WLAN devices need non-free firmware, just
>> dropping this functionality without replacement is a serious regression.
>> Therefore I ask you to re-enable it until a replacement is written.
>
> Could something like isenkram [1] be integrated into d-i and install
> necessary (firmware) packages based on the modalias information?
>
> Especially [2] looks like it could be a replacement.
> That said, isenkram-autoinstall-firmware doesn't seem to use the
> modalias info and instead greps through the modinfo output which looks
> like a rather hackish approach on a cursory glance.
>
> Kay, what's you opinion on something like this?
It could work. The device modaliases of the running machine can
produce the list of modules that will be loaded on a machine. The
modules themselves carry the file names of the firmware files in the
module's metadata.
Kay
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