Bug#343674: [arm] Installation report - etch beta1 on netwinder
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Joey Hess wrote:
Ok.
I don't know what would be best to remove from the netwinder netboot initrd
to save space. Some candidates include:
- The cdebconf text frontend (not used by default, useful to include
for serial consoles though)
Do I understand correctly that text frontend is only useful when the
serial console is too slow to redraw the pseudographics for every screen
with default frontend? Netwinder's serial console is 115200 baud, so this
redrawing is actually very fast. I'd say that limits the usefullness of
the text frontend significantly.
- isa-pnp-modules -- does netwinder actually use this for any ethernet
cards?
- nic-extra-modules -- if we check the included modules and make sure
that nic-modules has any nic drivers we would expect a netwinder to
need
Netwinder has two built-in ethernet ports:
Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41)
Ethernet controller: Winbond Electronics Corp W89C940F
First one needs the tulip driver, second is ne2k compatible, so it uses
ne2k-pci. Both are on the PCI bus. As it does not have any expansion
slots, those are the only two NIC drivers it will ever need, everything
else can go.
- usb-modules -- does a netwinder need this for USB keyboard?
There are no USB interfaces, so I think that everything USB-related can go
without harm.
- bogl-bterm-udeb -- can a netwinder have a console at all?
- console-keymaps-usb, console-keymaps-at -- can a netwinder have a
keyboard at all?
Yes, it has a PS2 connectors for keyboard and mouse, and a video card, so
the monitor can be attached.
- as a last resort, we could reduce the size greatly by removing
translations
Hopefully, this will not be necessary.
Best regards,
Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org
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