Hi, Aron Xu <aron@debian.org> (2015-05-17): > [Not on list, please keep me posted.] [done] > I'm wondering whether d-i team would like to accept out-of-tree kernel > module udeb for certain features, for example ZFS support? And if the > answer is yes, what's the best way of doing it? I wasn't actively involved with debian-boot back then but from what I've seen through debian-release at the time, o-o-t modules were a huge pain to handle. I'd rather not have to deal with such things again. > Two years ago we had a GSoC project to provide ZFS on Linux > integration, and after that licensing problem blocked the code's > actual inclusion. As written in one of the recent Bits from the DPL, > the issue is in much better shape and I believe it's time to discuss > how to move on with the technical part. > > At the moment only spl is available in the archive, using dkms, and > for zfs it's similar in the way of packaging though not uploaded yet. > What we have (code ready to go) is a mechanism that detects/gets > definition of a current KVERS and generate a source package with > dependencies and binary packages with names corresponding to it. > > What do you guys think? My personal stance on kernel related things would be “upstream first”. If it ain't going to be merged into mainline, or at least accepted as a patchset (like e.g. aufs3 or rt in wheezy) for src:linux, I'm not sure we want to support that. Cc-ing debian-kernel@ to see what they think. Mraw, KiBi.
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