On Thursday 12 June 2008, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 19:26 +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > +drivers/block/virtio_blk.ko > > "Virtio block driver": not needed: > > > > > +drivers/block/xen-blkfront.ko > > "Xen virtual block device support": not needed > [...] > > > > +drivers/net/virtio_net.ko > > > +drivers/net/xen-netfront.ko > > Not useful > > I have patches to make the installer work well as a Xen guest so those > drivers are needed. Does that also go for the 486 kernel flavor or only for 686-bigmem (if/when we add that)? What about amd64? Should those go in the regular udebs or in one or more separate "xen udebs"? Depends on how/when they are used. > I included virtio too, because, well, why not ;-) Because we're _always_ trying to save on memory usage. If something does not have a definite function in the context of the installer: don't include it.
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