On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 01:01:45AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > and probably the absense of > > initramfs support, as we have now. > > Yes, there was some complaint about the lack of easy support for > installing the firmware in the initrd. Which is not technically a bug, > but the lack of a feature (netmounted root for those boards which need > firmware loading). > > Isn't this still an issue? :-/ Doesn't it require udev to run in the > initramfs, and isn't that not-yet-ready? (Although desired upstream, > from what I remember -- this is the "early userland" stuff)
Look at the thread on d-k shared with LKML, there is some discussion with David Lang about the ipw2200 driver. I believe the current state is you can tell the driver the path of the firmware file, and the driver will load it from initramfs without other tools, not sure though. > Frankly, people who netmount root and use network cards requiring firmware > loading are a pretty small group. But it would be nice to make it work for > them. In debian, those people need a ramdisk anyway, and initramfs-tools can do this, not sure if firmware support is there, but ity may be or at least easy to implement. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
