Am 30.07.2012 00:18, schrieb Tom Gundersen: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Tom Gundersen <[email protected]> wrote: >> It seems to me that a more useful fallback image, would be one that is >> generated at compile-time, rather than at install-time, and shipped as >> a part of the kernel package. This would avoid user errors, and >> mkinitcpio run-time problems. >> >> This fallback image should contain the widest sets of hooks and >> modules so that it should work on any hardware and any setup (at least >> to the extent possible with our current hooks). > > I put a PKGBUILD up on AUR[0]. Rather than making it part of the > kernel package, I made it separate (at Thomas' request). At least this > should make it easy to test without having to rebuild kernels. > > At the moment it simply includes all the hooks I could think of. If, > in the future, we would like to add more features to it (e.g. pacman, > arch-install-scripts or better networking tools), we should add > mkinitcpio hooks to the relevant pacakges. > > Any thoughts? > > Cheers, > > Tom > > [0]: <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=61313>
It'll be better to make it a split of the linux package to make sure modules are compatible. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com
