Re: [Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Kernel image and OOT auto builder environment (Was: Using out of tree modules in d-i)?

2013-05-25 Thread Aron Xu
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Turbo Fredriksson tu...@bayour.com wrote: On May 24, 2013, at 8:54 PM, Aron Xu wrote: What I can think of is to do the trick in d-i, since it already has the ability to retrieve and load udeb on the fly, and even prompt users for missing firmware. Maybe even

Re: [Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Kernel image and OOT auto builder environment (Was: Using out of tree modules in d-i)?

2013-05-25 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
On May 25, 2013, at 2:23 PM, Aron Xu wrote: just use DKMS to build OOT modules at image generation time? Seems to be a good idea. If setting up a kernel-build-system on one of the Debian GNU/Linux servers isn't an option, then this would be a second best.. Then it will be up to the user

Re: [Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Kernel image and OOT auto builder environment (Was: Using out of tree modules in d-i)?

2013-05-24 Thread Aron Xu
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Turbo Fredriksson tu...@bayour.com wrote: On May 22, 2013, at 3:52 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: Quoting from the report of our 2009 meeting, 20091015123106.ga16...@kyllikki.org: out of tree modules --- After a somewhat involved discussion

Re: [Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Kernel image and OOT auto builder environment (Was: Using out of tree modules in d-i)?

2013-05-24 Thread Aron Xu
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 2:45 AM, Turbo Fredriksson tu...@bayour.com wrote: On May 24, 2013, at 7:04 PM, Aron Xu wrote: and help d-i people to handle the brokenness if a change in kernel makes the OOT module does not build This should only happen when a new major version of the kernel comes

Re: [Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Kernel image and OOT auto builder environment (Was: Using out of tree modules in d-i)?

2013-05-24 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
On May 24, 2013, at 7:04 PM, Aron Xu wrote: and help d-i people to handle the brokenness if a change in kernel makes the OOT module does not build This should only happen when a new major version of the kernel comes out, which means it should only happen in unstable.. And we could make it so

Re: [Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Kernel image and OOT auto builder environment (Was: Using out of tree modules in d-i)?

2013-05-24 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
On May 24, 2013, at 8:54 PM, Aron Xu wrote: What I can think of is to do the trick in d-i, since it already has the ability to retrieve and load udeb on the fly, and even prompt users for missing firmware. Maybe even build them using dkms? I saw that you can make d-i build all packages...