On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 22:51 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> (20/04/2013): > > On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 03:28 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > [x86 XO systems need a framebuffer driver which udev blacklists] > > > This will result in a regression when upgrading one of these > > > systems from squeeze. (Although I don't think Debian kernel > > > images have ever had complete support for them.) > > > > > > I've opened bug #705784 for this against udev, and Marco has said > > > he's willing for me to NMU it. Alternately, in the kernel, I can > > > revert the change to a module, or rename the module to evade the > > > blacklist, but neither of those is particularly nice. But I think > > > any kernel changes now are going to be too disruptive to the > > > installer. > > > > A udev change might still be considered too disruptive in any case; > > CCing Cyril to see if he has any strong opinions. > > if that's just about updating debian/patches/extra_modprobeconf to > remove the “blacklist lxfb” line, please go ahead with a udev NMU, and > subsequent unblock/unblock-udeb/urgent. > > I'd rather avoid having to deal with a linux upload if that can be > avoided, as Ben correctly guessed. I've uploaded and opened an unblock bug (#706367). I didn't remember to set urgency=high, so please overide that. Do I need to do anything more? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Knowledge is power. France is bacon.
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