Including external modules in initrd
Greetings,
I'm building a beowulf whose nodes have Intel gigabit NICs, whose
drivers are not in the stock kernel. So, I got the e1000 driver (and
debianized it, but haven't ITPd or uploaded yet), and would like to use
it for nfs-root.
The problem is, I can't get this module into the initrd. Is there a way
to include such external modules in the initrd using make-kpkg? I can't
find anything in the kernel-package docs.
Right now, I do:
fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd kernel-image
and then install the package on the head node and use mknbi to combine
the kernel and initrd into one file which can be downloaded by
etherboot. It boots just fine, but of course, with no e1000, there's no
nfs over this card. I can also
fakeroot make-kpkg modules
to build the separate e1000 module .deb, but it doesn't get into the
initrd, and can't get out to the nodes...
Any ideas?
TIA,
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