Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

2023-06-09 Thread James Addison
On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 11:52:28 +0100, wrote: > On Fri 09 Jun 2023 at 10:44:23 (+0100), James Addison wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 at 05:38, wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 09:57:31PM +0100, James Addison wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > >

Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

2023-06-09 Thread James Addison
On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 at 05:38, wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 09:57:31PM +0100, James Addison wrote: > > [...] > > > Naturally a block device isn't a game cartridge - the former could > > contain many different operating systems, with the potential for > >

Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

2023-06-08 Thread James Addison
On Thu, 08 Jun 2023 17:13:30 +0200, Sven wrote: > On 2023-06-08 15:41 +0100, James Addison wrote: > > > Does anyone have experience running Debian systems without using an > > initramfs? > > I did this in the distance past, some 15 years ago or so. Have long >

Running Debian without initramfs?

2023-06-08 Thread James Addison
Hi folks, Does anyone have experience running Debian systems without using an initramfs? I'd be particularly keen to hear about laptop/desktop/server systems, because I think that a large motivating factor to use initramfs -- across many distributions -- was to provide a mechanism outside-the-com

i386: Geode LX and NOPL

2023-05-20 Thread James Addison
Hi folks, I don't think that I should file this as a Debian bugreport, because it's not a problem that I've experienced with Debian. And I don't think that it's appropriate to write to Debian developers directly about it yet, because I haven't been able to test the results of what I'm curious abo

Re: cirrus/cs35l41 'Cannot Initialize Firmware. Error: -22'

2023-05-11 Thread James Addison
Hi Vladimir, As you've found, Debian doesn't yet distribute firmware for the Cirrus CS35L41, although there is an open bugreport to add support for it that you can subscribe to: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1031912 The recommended symlinks to create after installing firmware