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Re: [PATCH] Support for addition of modules to initrd using register-module



On Saturday 15 April 2006 18:50, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> Attached patches against base-installer and d-i-utils make it possible
> to schedule kernel modules for addition to the initrd (aka initramfs)
> using register_module. d-i-utils.patch adds a --initrd (or -i) option
> to register-module, which creates the $MODULE.initrd file in
> /var/lib/register-module. The base-installer patch adds the logic which
> looks for such files and make the neccessary changes to yaird or
> initramfs-tools configuration between their installation and kernel
> installation. It is needed on sparc, where some devices are not
> detected by udev, and have to be manually added to initrd for the
> machine to boot.

Applied (with modifications), including the missing patch for hw-detect 
that calls register-module for sbus driver modules.
I'll probably upload before next dinstall.

Thanks for working on this Jurij.

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