On 5/8/19 10:51 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote: >> As far as I know, a lot of Alpha-specific hardware needs firmware but I >> haven’t looked into creating images with firmware yet. > > Yeah, but this problems seems purely due to the pata-modules missing in > the initramfs.
That's true. But we have has also many reports on people complaining about missing firmware, so that should definitely be addressed. >> Here: >> https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/tree/master/debian/installer/modules/alpha-generic >> >> Try to understand the include logic first before sending a PR. A lot of >> modules are actually included using the “common” directory. > > Could you explain a little more? With the "common" directory you mean [5]? > > [5]: > https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/tree/master/debian/installer/modules/ Yes. Unless the driver you want is alpha-specific, you would put it into this list: > https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/blob/master/debian/installer/modules/pata-modules > The way I understand it, the configuration files in [6] control what > UDEBs are built for the alpha kernel used for the installer, as they > seem to include the configuration files from the assumed "common" super > directory which list the drivers to include for the respective > devices/protocols/standards/etc.. No. They simply control which modules are put into which modules UDEBS. > And the configuration in [7] seems to control what UDEBs are installed > in the initramfs. Correct. debian-cd itself just includes all UDEBs. > The question remains if one needs to specify dependencies explicitly or > if dependencies are resolved during build. I'll try to correlate the > modules in the initramfs with what is configured in [7] and come to a > conclusion. You put in all the modules you need. If you need "pata1", "pata2" and "pata-helper", you add them to the list. For example: > https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/commit/db4ed9e563092b5847556f319fa29109bc5221a9 Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
