Bug#575241: initramfs-tools: long delay with nouveau module in the initramfs

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2010-03-24 19:38 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> The general conditions for the bug are:
> 1. Module is manually loaded using /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
> 2. Module needs to load firmware

Thanks for the explanation.  Speaking of the firmware, is anyone working
on packaging it?  Ubuntu has a package¹ in multiverse which works fine
for me and could be used as a base, although it should probably named
firmware-nouveau for consistency.

> i915 doesn't need to load firmware and is enabled for auto-loading.
> nouveau does require firmware and will not be enabled for auto-loading
> until we have user-space packages that work with it.

With my locally built xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package and
linux-image-2.6.32-4-amd64, the module gets loaded when X starts up
which is certainly soon enough for now.

Sven


¹ http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/nouveau-firmware