On Fri, 2013-12-13 at 00:32 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Michael Biebl <email@michaelbiebl.de> wrote: > > Am 13.12.2013 00:12, schrieb Andreas Cadhalpun: > >> The Debian installer needs a way to load the firmware during > >> installation, otherwise the netinst.iso is pretty useless for WLAN > >> devices with non-free firmware. > >> Since a majority of the WLAN devices need non-free firmware, just > >> dropping this functionality without replacement is a serious regression. > >> Therefore I ask you to re-enable it until a replacement is written. > > > > Could something like isenkram [1] be integrated into d-i and install > > necessary (firmware) packages based on the modalias information? > > > > Especially [2] looks like it could be a replacement. > > That said, isenkram-autoinstall-firmware doesn't seem to use the > > modalias info and instead greps through the modinfo output which looks > > like a rather hackish approach on a cursory glance. > > > > Kay, what's you opinion on something like this? > > It could work. The device modaliases of the running machine can > produce the list of modules that will be loaded on a machine. The > modules themselves carry the file names of the firmware files in the > module's metadata. We use that static approach in initramfs-tools and it seems to work pretty well, though I don't know how many people actually depend on firmware in their initramfs. I've occasionally had to fix the metadata in drivers. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Knowledge is power. France is bacon.
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