Hi Cyril, On Sat, Jan 03, 2026 at 05:00:49AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Salvatore, > > And thanks again for those mails, much welcome. Especially when they're > not about “no packaging changes”. ;-)
Thanks for the feedback. > 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. FTR, this is this change: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/1730 it required a followup as https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/commit/c660788db61eea9d22bc429b987441b05b9302bb and https://tracker.debian.org/news/1699493/accepted-u-boot-efi-dtb-5-source-into-unstable/ Thanks for checking other potentially impacted packages. > > * 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. https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/1747 > > * [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 Ack glad if you are happy :) > > 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. :) Yep, the list does not exist yet. Should follow. > 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… Ben Hutchings was planning to work on the d-i part to contribute the support. I assume you will hear from us soon we start with that. Regards, Salvatore
