On 27/08/16 12:05, Ralph Ronnquist wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote on 27/08/16 08:52: >> On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 08:45:35AM +1000, Ralph Ronnquist wrote: >>> .. >>> 3) Off hand I would say it would work, but on the other hand, afaik >>> vdev is >>> still in beta state. And I don't know anything about rpi3. To try it >>> out, >>> you should first make sure you can revert easily. But I haven't >>> thought too >>> much about how to do that. In practice, vdev conflicts with udev, >>> libudev1 >>> and initramfs-tools, because it removes or overwrites files (/links) >>> from >>> these. >> >> It would be convenient from a user perspective, especially while we >> are still testing, to be able to choose udev or vdev at boot time, >> perhaps as a kernel parameter. But if the packages conflict to this >> degree, I suppose there isn't much hope of it. > > Agreed about convenience. Though without thinking too deep about it, > it'd mean improving(?) both initramfs-tools and sysvinit (and > alternatives) towards maintaining concurrent alternative initrd, and > startup choice respectively. I'm sure it _could_ be patched into the > vdev installation to provide a dynamic choice between it and a prior > udev (for some systems), but I think it'd violate the package > independence thought quite severely; much worse than it already does. > > In the present incarnation, the rollback (not tested by me, though) from > vdev to udev is (should be): remove vdev and libudev1-compat (and > perhaps vdevd), then reinstall udev, libudev1, and initramfs-tools. > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
I'd imagine it should be possible to include both udev and vdev in the initrd and add a boot option to select which device manager to use. Once I've I've got a moment I'm going to jump in on this and see if we can get a vdev package into experimental and work towards including it in jessie-backports. -- Daniel Reurich Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd. 021 797 722
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