Karsten Merker wrote:
Which makes sense for armel, many load their boot files from fixed size blocks of flash and flash space is a MAJOR issue (and major thorn in the kernel teams side) and you will generally need a new kernel if you move to a different device anyway.Browse online: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/base-installer.git/tree/debian/templates-arch Adding -arm@ and -boot@ for possible comments/insight.I suppose the reason for MODULES=dep being the default on arm* might be that some armel systems boot their kernel and initrd directly from an onboard flash chip with a size of only a few MB, so an initramfs built with modules=most might be uninstallable on them due to lack of space.
On the other hand for armhf i'm not sure it makes sense, most armhf systems i'm aware of load their kernels/initrds from filesystems so space is not such and issue and with the new armmp kernels having a modules=most initrd would presumablly allow one to move to different hardware with just swapping out the bootloader.