Am 30.07.2012 12:03, schrieb Tobias Powalowski: > Am 30.07.2012 11:55, schrieb Pierre Schmitz: >> 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. >> > As far as I understand covers it everything so no need to be compatible > with the installed kernel. > greetingst > tpowa
Except it does not include the kernel itself. Modules without a matching kernel are not that useful. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com
