On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 08:27 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 02:56 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Kernels and initramfses will be in /boot, as for most Linux > > distributions. However, we currently install DTBs in > > /usr/lib/<package-name>. Maybe it would be helpful to copy the latest > > applicable DTB into /boot, on some machines. > > flash-kernel does this for some systems, but you are right that we > should consider having the kernel packages do it. > > /usr/lib/linux-image-3.10-0.bpo.2-armmp/ is 860K, which I think is > probably a bit too large to just copy the whole lot over. > > So the problem is how to determine which dtb is needed. The most obvious > solution would be to subsume a bunch of f-k functionality into the > kernel packages and offer a debconf prompt for systems which the db > doesn't know about.
I would much prefer that this is done by a hook script. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them.
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