Re: [PATCH] firmware loading support

2008-06-24 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Maybe Checking for firmware... ? Checking and installing needed firmware? I don't like the needing for some reason. Also, checking for? Well, for sure that's a tricky one..:-)

Re: [PATCH] firmware loading support

2008-06-23 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): This is great work, Joey. Making firmware-mandatory hardware work with D-I would be a giant step. So, despite this breaking again the slow progress in localization (about 25 complete langs as of now), I warmly applause. Comments on templates (very

Re: [PATCH] firmware loading support

2008-06-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 23 June 2008, Joey Hess wrote: Frans Pop wrote: 0003: Having the two loops looks broken In so far that the second loop is likely to copy files that were already installed in the first loop. If you're referring to the two loops in post-base-installer (and not in Yes, 0003 refers

Re: [PATCH] firmware loading support

2008-06-23 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: diff --git a/packages/hw-detect/debian/hw-detect.templates b/packages/hw-detect/debian/hw-detect.templates index 5301467..cf31ef3 100644 --- a/packages/hw-detect/debian/hw-detect.templates +++ b/packages/hw-detect/debian/hw-detect.templates @@ -67,9 +67,20 @@

Re: [PATCH] firmware loading support

2008-06-23 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Maybe Checking for firmware... ? Checking and installing needed firmware? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [PATCH] firmware loading support

2008-06-23 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Maybe Checking for firmware... ? Checking and installing needed firmware? I don't like the needing for some reason. Also, checking for? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [PATCH] firmware loading support

2008-06-23 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 23-06-2008 om 19:50 schreef Joey Hess: Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Maybe Checking for firmware... ? Checking and installing needed firmware? I don't like the needing for some reason. Also, checking for? Handling firmware or Now handling the

[PATCH] firmware loading support

2008-06-22 Thread Joey Hess
Here's an initial attempt at support for loading missing firmware from removable media. Completly untested. It supports media with the firmware provided in any of three ways: 1. in udebs 2. In debs, which are then installed into d-i as udebs, and are also stored and installed into /target

Re: [PATCH] firmware loading support

2008-06-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 23 June 2008, Joey Hess wrote: Here's an initial attempt at support for loading missing firmware from removable media. Completly untested. 0001: How do you know which version of the udev script you get? Either package can now overwrite the version from the other at build time. Also, I

Re: [PATCH] firmware loading support

2008-06-22 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 23 June 2008, Joey Hess wrote: Here's an initial attempt at support for loading missing firmware from removable media. Completly untested. 0001: How do you know which version of the udev script you get? I was assuming we're remove it from udev-udeb. Putting the

Re: [PATCH] firmware loading support

2008-06-22 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: 0003: Having the two loops looks broken In so far that the second loop is likely to copy files that were already installed in the first loop. If you're referring to the two loops in post-base-installer (and not in check-missing-firmware), it's true that the firmware from debs