Dear Raju,
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 09:18:06PM +0530, Raju Devidas wrote:
> Hello Kumar,
>
> I took a look at your repository on salsa.
> Before taking a look at your repository I have also taken a look at some
> other repositories on github which had steps for
> supporting Ubuntu on the RDP.
>
Hello Kumar,
I took a look at your repository on salsa.
Before taking a look at your repository I have also taken a look at some
other repositories on github which had steps for
supporting Ubuntu on the RDP.
Specially this one.
https://github.com/sundarnagarajan/rdp-thinbook-linux
Most of the
Dear Vincent,
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 08:37:59PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> ❦ 11 février 2018 00:05 +0530, Kumar Appaiah :
>
> > - Adding my custom patched rfkill DKMS package and ensuring that
> > linux-headers is also installed, so that I can use the
> > preseed/late_command to build
❦ 11 février 2018 00:05 +0530, Kumar Appaiah :
> - Adding my custom patched rfkill DKMS package and ensuring that
> linux-headers is also installed, so that I can use the
> preseed/late_command to build the DKMS module.
dkms is able to build an udeb you can ship with the installer. This can
Dear Debian Developers,
This is a follow-up to
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/01/msg00461.html
(Message-ID: <20180122140840.GA4580@odessa>).
Some good people in the thread above mentioned that maintaing a forked
kernel merely for two one-line patches is too much. I disagreed
initially
Dear Ian,
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 02:08:48PM +, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > Also, the patches being that small, what's stopping them from
> > > being upstreamed?
> >
> > This is something beyond my understanding. Other distributions, such
> > as Linux Mint, Ubuntu etc. also do not possess those
On Tue, 2018-01-23 at 18:20 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:27:06AM -0200, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 07:38:41PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> > > Dear Debian Developers,
> > >
> > > I am part of a team working on getting Debian on low cost laptops
On Tue, 2018-01-23 at 17:53 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> > You should definitately give the package a distinct version and you
> > should _probably_ give it either a distinct ABI or flavour (or possibly
> > both). You will probably also want to put a digit in your distinct ABI
> > so you can rev i
On 01/23/2018 10:56 AM, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On 01/23/2018 01:34 AM, Daniel Reichelt wrote:
>> In order to not interfere with the modules provided by the linux-image-*
>> packages, [...]
>> (An alternative to changing module names might be to use
>> update-alternatives or dpkg-divert and just prov
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:27:06AM -0200, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 07:38:41PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> > Dear Debian Developers,
> >
> > I am part of a team working on getting Debian on low cost laptops (see
> > http://www.rdp.in for details) so that they can be sold
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:02:55AM +, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-01-22 at 19:38 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> > 1. The laptop will ship with stretch preinstalled, but with a custom
> > kernel built using the linux-source-x.xx.xx package with a custom
> > version number, such as linux-im
Dear Daniel,
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 01:34:32AM +0100, Daniel Reichelt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> what about ripping out the affected kernel modules and provide the
> patched sources in a separate package and have them built at install
> time via DKMS?
>
> In order to not interfere with the modules provid
On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 07:38:41PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> Dear Debian Developers,
>
> I am part of a team working on getting Debian on low cost laptops (see
> http://www.rdp.in for details) so that they can be sold with Debian
> preinstalled. While vanilla Debian largely works, unfortunatel
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:14:42AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Thanks. I'll keep this in mind. The only point I'd like to emphasize
> > is that we are clear that ours will NOT be a derived distribution; our
> > Debian will have only a few kernel line diffs with the pristine
> > Debian, an
On Mon, 2018-01-22 at 19:38 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> 1. The laptop will ship with stretch preinstalled, but with a custom
> kernel built using the linux-source-x.xx.xx package with a custom
> version number, such as linux-image-4.14.13-iitb-amd64.
A silly nitpick but the "4.14.13-iitb-amd64"
On 01/23/2018 01:34 AM, Daniel Reichelt wrote:
> In order to not interfere with the modules provided by the linux-image-*
> packages, [...]
> (An alternative to changing module names might be to use
> update-alternatives or dpkg-divert and just provide/integrate the
> renamed .ko files)
FWIW, this
Quoting Kumar Appaiah (2018-01-23 01:02:04)
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 04:29:22PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>> 1. The laptop will ship with stretch preinstalled, but with a custom
>>> kernel built using the linux-source-x.xx.xx package with a custom
>>> version number, such as linux-image-4.
Hi,
what about ripping out the affected kernel modules and provide the
patched sources in a separate package and have them built at install
time via DKMS?
In order to not interfere with the modules provided by the linux-image-*
packages, you could
- rename the kernel modules provided by your mod
Dear Jonas,
Good to hear from you.
On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 04:29:22PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Hi Kumar,
>
> Quoting Kumar Appaiah (2018-01-22 15:08:41)
> > I am part of a team working on getting Debian on low cost laptops (see
> > http://www.rdp.in for details) so that they can be sold
Dear Ian,
On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 02:32:21PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Kumar Appaiah writes ("Maintaining a custom out-of-tree patched Debian kernel
> for specific hardware"):
> ...
> > 4. Users will be made aware of the fact that this is Debian with a
> >
Hi Kumar,
Quoting Kumar Appaiah (2018-01-22 15:08:41)
> I am part of a team working on getting Debian on low cost laptops (see
> http://www.rdp.in for details) so that they can be sold with Debian
> preinstalled.
Looks quite interesting! Thanks for packaging raising questions here.
> 1. The l
Kumar Appaiah writes ("Maintaining a custom out-of-tree patched Debian kernel
for specific hardware"):
...
> 4. Users will be made aware of the fact that this is Debian with a
> custom kernel without ambiguity.
>
> Now, whenever there is a kernel update in Debian, our
Dear Debian Developers,
I am part of a team working on getting Debian on low cost laptops (see
http://www.rdp.in for details) so that they can be sold with Debian
preinstalled. While vanilla Debian largely works, unfortunately,
making Bluetooth and sound work require kernel rebuilding. The patches
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