[correct the debian-sparc address] On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 01:37:06PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: > Hello, > > As we discovered recently, the daily sparc netboot image > exceeds 10MB limit imposed by OpenBoot, so it fails to boot. I've > poked at it a bit, and it seems that one of the most straightforward > ways to make room is to drop wpasupplicant and all its dependencies > (libcrypto, crypto kernel modules) which account for significant > amount of space on the initrd. AFAIK, sparc does not have any hardware > which does wifi natively, and while it's in theory possible to use > some usb-wifi dongle to do the installation, I don't remember any > reports of anyone doing it. > > The straightforward way to achieve this goal is to make netcfg not > depend on wpasupplicant for sparc (same way as s390 currently does). > This will drop wpasupplicant (and, subsequently, installation over > wireless support) not only from netboot, but also from all other > installation media (like businesscard iso). > > Let me know if you have any objections, otherwise I'll commit > necessary fixes in a couple of days. > > Best regards, > -- > Jurij Smakov [email protected] > Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC
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