On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 06:42:19AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > If it can't be included in Debian, could it be made available as a > > separate, clearly marked nonfree download? I noticed that the installer > > lets you select driver modules if it can't find one automatically, and the > > last option is 'none of these' which lets you insert a driver floppy. Can > > the Marvell driver be packaged as such a floppy and offered for download > > separately somehow? > If someone cares to do it, yes...:-) > I'm not deeply involved in this part of the business for Debian > Installer so I can't really tell you how hard it is to compile a > driver that could be loaded by the installer kernel. Not hard. The problem is that it's cumbersome to hook such a module into both the installer, *and* the installed system, because you would need to be able to provide both a udeb and a deb and ensure they get installed even though they're not part of the official mirrors. It should be easier either to pull in custom .debs from a floppy or other source, or to extract the .ko from a udeb to the appropriate location on the installed system (which is still nasty for kernel upgrades, but better than nothing). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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