Re: Microcode and the installer (Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3)
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > (replying to -devel and -boot only)
> (I am not subscribed to -boot. Please keep -devel on replies, or CC me
> directly).
>
> > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, Philipp Kern wrote:
> > >> If we do that the same should also happen for firmware-linux-nonfree. Loading
> > >> the radeon KMS module without firmware available results in an unusable
> > >> (text) console. (Yes, it might be considered a bug that radeon is loadable
> > >> without.)
> > >
> > > Sounds good to me.
> > >
> > > What should I clone and hack to try to implement this?
> >
> > <git://git.debian.org/d-i/base-installer.git>, I think.
>
> It is actually the hw-detect module, and adding support for the two system
> processor microcodes is somewhat trivial... as long as I ignore VMs. I just
> need to add a hook to pre-pkgsel.d.
>
> If I want to skip installing the processor microcode on VM images, I need to
> install and "in-target" run virt-what before the hook can decide whether
> installing the microcode packages is warranted or not.
>
> Should I attempt to install virt-what (which brings dmidecode as a
> dependency) to avoid wasting space on VM images ?
PING? I need some feedback from debian-boot or from VM users!
--
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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