(Removing some ccs including leader@d.o.) Colin Watson wrote: > Also hotplug in the installer rather than discover, which could easily > make a difference to hardware detection (and shifts more of the burden > to the kernel, so kernel versions are more likely to make a difference > to what hardware is detected). I've contributed that code from Ubuntu > back to d-i so that it can be enabled by building the initrd in a > different way, but I can't make the decision for Debian on whether to > use discover or hotplug. This makes it quite difficult for me to deal > with mails that say "Ubuntu can detect this but Debian can't; why > haven't you contributed these improvements?", because in many cases > there's little more I can do. > > (It's true that I didn't manage to get the hotplug stuff into d-i before > sarge released, though. Mea culpa.) Is all the hotplug stuff (ie, udebs) actually ready to go now in sid? Last I heard, there were still some udebs to be put together. Also, will it work on all arches (I imagine it won't on m68k/2.2), or will we need to use hotplug on some and discover on others? -- see shy jo
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