Am 30.07.2012 12:09, schrieb Pierre Schmitz: > 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. > Well something similar is provided by me since ages here: https://downloads.archlinux.de/iso/archboot/2012.06/boot kernel+initramfs greetings tpowa
-- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org [email protected]
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