Jack Schwartz wrote: > Hi everyone. > > Andre and I talked today about Driver Update testing, specifically which > kinds of drivers are most important to test. Andre mentioned disk (or > target media), network and video drivers. > > We both agree that target media drivers are the most important, because > without target media, you can't install. Period. >
Certainly. > We both agree that testing either wired or wireless network card drivers > accomplishes the same thing, since both present a similar pathway to the > net from the system. Network drivers installed via DDU could be > important if the network is unavailable and the driver is available on a > USB stick or other local medium, for live CD case and text-mode > installer if NWAM can make use of the driver/device right away. (AI > probably can't make use of this, as there is no interactive environment > for the user to set it up and NWAM isn't going to be running.) > I think you're oversimplifying the AI case here since we are supporting bootable AI media. It seems likely that applying driver updates to that via a boot to single-user, or in multi-user after AI fails (followed by a restart of AI) is as useful as any other environment. > I'm thinking that video drivers are not important in testing. Live CDs > will already have a working video driver. Text-mode installer won't > need it for installation as it has a working console already, and AI is > non-interactive. Video drivers can be installed by the installer > itself; using the DDU is not helpful here. > Video drivers typically have both a kernel component and an X "driver" component, so it's not clear that the current media architecture would support updates for these, but I'd suggest talking to Alan Coopersmith to get his thoughts. Dave
