Hi Salvatore, And thanks again for those mails, much welcome. Especially when they're not about “no packaging changes”. ;-)
I'm pinpointing a few things that I should look into (which I cannot do right away). Salvatore Bonaccorso <[email protected]> (2026-01-02): > * Make dracut the preferred initramfs generator. This caught my eye but I see you're addressing that below. > * Move dtb into modules directory. This too, I suppose this might impact some packages like raspi-firmware (maintainers bcc'd) which copy some DTBs around. > * Split modules out of kernel-image udeb. I suppose this is about shuffling .ko between udebs, so that might be transparent for the installer's runtime. > * [arm64] Add initial Raspberry Pi 5 support > - enable MMC_SDHCI_BRCMSTB, GPIO_BRCMSTB, PINCTRL_BRCMSTB > and PINCTRL_BCM2712 as modules > - enable OF_OVERLAY > - enable MISC_RP1 as a module I had seen a few required patches land upstream lately, it's good to see the configuration options are getting in as well! https://salsa.debian.org/raspi-team/image-specs/-/issues/74 > So we cover a couple of further HW support enablements, the introduction > of a base package for version sync, enablement of building rust drivers > and features and the switch to dracut as the preferred initramfs > generator. > > The switch of the preferred initramfs generator to dracut is a first > step towards the plan to switch to dracut by default. There is work > planned to make support for d-i, Benjamin is aiming to make a list of > packages that ship initramfs-tools hooks in Debian. I was going about the existence of such a list. :) Bug reports, patches, MRs are welcome for d-i components. If bug reports are precise enough (what needs changing, what the target should look like), I suppose we could help write patches… but that would require some heavy learning session (at least for me) as my only bit of dracut-related knowledge is that dracut-install exists and is used by recent initramfs-tools versions… Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois ([email protected]) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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