Re: Installing with new Installer-Image
On 09/22/2017 10:17 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> You don't need access to hardware. You can test the kernel just fine
>> on Aranym. All you need is a simple root filesystem and an initrd
>> which I can provide. In fact, you can just use the kernel and initrd
>> from the debian-installer distribution:
>
> Correct.
> And the Falcon IDE driver still works fine when not a module...
It does? That would be interesting as a workaround for the time being.
>>> Last I heard, the IDE driver/libata conversion plan had been NAK'd. Has
>>> the IDE subsystem maintainer changed his mind?
>>
>> Why it should it be NAK'd? The IDE/ATA subsystem maintainers want to
>> get all the drivers ported over to libata so they can eventually
>> get rid of the old IDE stack.
>
> Getting rid of the old IDE stack was NAKed (rightfully), due to drivers/ata/
> not providing the same level of hardware support as drivers/ide/.
> Porting drivers over to drivers/ata/ is OK (and wanted), of course.
Well, of course, I'm not for removing the old drivers before the pata
drivers have reached feature equality. But, I would very much like to
encourage the porting and I will try to help as soon as I am done with
all changes to debian-installer and openjdk that I still have in my
current queue.
Adrian
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