Bug#264492: NewWorld (G4) PowerPC d-i hardware detect does not see firewire disk

[Rick_Thomas <rbthomas@rcthomas.org>]

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 11:54, Joey Hess wrote:
> Rick Thomas wrote:
> > The "detect disks" phase failed to detect my firewire disk, which I 
> > was intending to use for installation test.
> 
> I'm afraid that your report left out the lspci and lspci -n output that
> we need to get ohci1394 loaded on your system and enable firewire
> support.

OK,

I'm at work right now, and the machine is at home, but I'll try to get
you that data tonight.

However, that said, let me argue that it should not be needed:

All NewWorld Macs have onboard FireWire, and so potentially need
ohci1394 and sbp2 to access external disks.  Now, it's true that not all
NewWorld Macs will have actual firewire disks, and loading those modules
should probably be optional, not default.  So... why not just always
make the ohci1394 and sbp2 modules available as an option in one of the
hardware discovery menus whenever we're installing on a NewWorld Mac?

Or is there something about the hardware discovery process that I don't
know (very likely) that makes that difficult or unpalatable?  Like, it's
totally driven by [the equivalent of] the output of lspci?  Is there a
design/implementation document somewhere that describes this process? 
I'd be interested in reading it, if it's available.

Thanks for all the hard work!

Enjoy!

Rick