Re: Dropping wpasupplicant from sparc netboot image
[correct the debian-sparc address]
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 01:37:06PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As we discovered recently, the daily sparc netboot image
> exceeds 10MB limit imposed by OpenBoot, so it fails to boot. I've
> poked at it a bit, and it seems that one of the most straightforward
> ways to make room is to drop wpasupplicant and all its dependencies
> (libcrypto, crypto kernel modules) which account for significant
> amount of space on the initrd. AFAIK, sparc does not have any hardware
> which does wifi natively, and while it's in theory possible to use
> some usb-wifi dongle to do the installation, I don't remember any
> reports of anyone doing it.
>
> The straightforward way to achieve this goal is to make netcfg not
> depend on wpasupplicant for sparc (same way as s390 currently does).
> This will drop wpasupplicant (and, subsequently, installation over
> wireless support) not only from netboot, but also from all other
> installation media (like businesscard iso).
>
> Let me know if you have any objections, otherwise I'll commit
> necessary fixes in a couple of days.
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org
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