Bug#467454: some modules unnecessarily built-in
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 01:52:27PM -0700, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> [2008-02-26 12:07]:
> > > The following modules are built into the core image and
> > > probably shouldn't be:
> > >
> > > scsi_mod
> > > sd_mod
> > > ext3
> > > ext2
> > > jbd
> > > SMC91X driver (don't know the module name, but config option is CONFIG_SMC91X)
> > >
> >
> > They are actually needed until there is real support for versatile to
> > d-i. This way it is possible to use the initrd.gz from another platform
> > instead.
>
> Aurelien, are you planning to make the versatile flavour more modular?
Oh yes, I forget about that, sorry. I'll make the change.
> (FWIW, I don't touch the versatile flavour unless I have to; but if it
> was more similar to other arm configs, I might care about it more.)
I'll try to make it more similar to other configs.
> P.S. Riku posted an interesting message asking whether we could
> replace the versatile flavour with a more popular ARM arch that is
> also emulated by qemu.
Oh yes, I remember seeing something like that, but it was at the bad
moment, when I really laked free time...
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