On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 18:51 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Sunday 13 July 2008, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > > What about retasking the new virtio udebs into virtuali{s,z}ion (or
> > > > just virt) and adding them there?
> > >
> > > That could work, but I suspect it could result in a dependency mess.
> > > You can either check /lib/modules/<ver>/modules.dep to see how bad it
> > > is or just try it. If these modules do not depend on anything much
> > > then this could be a good option.
> >
> > The xen-{blk,net}front.ko modules currently don't depend on any others
> > so it should be fairly clean. What do you think?
>
> I think the patch you have now is fine and this option has my vote. It is
> IMO by far the simplest solution. As the modules don't exist for the 486
> flavor, it does not add any overhead for regular images.
Agreed. I'll stick with this then.
> > I guess I'd need to add this udeb to the pkglist for the i386 netboot.
>
> Why would we add it to the normal netboot? Is it going to be used there?
> If not, we don't want to do that. Instead we should create a "subclass" in
> pkg-lists and then set that "subclass" as TYPE in the config, comparable
> to what has been done for the gtk variant of netboot.
I only wanted it for netboot-xen but I didn't know there was a mechanism
for doing that -- this subclass stuff sounds like the way (except, as
discussed above, we aren't going down this route at all).
> > The kernel-wedge patch is now trivial as mentioned above. I've included
> > the base-installer (on top of #490542, called bigmem.patch) and
> > linux-kernel-di...patch and the main installer.patch again.
>
> I've not had any feedback on my patch yet. I'll try pinging a few people
> on Monday, but I won't delay much longer.
Thanks.
> As far as I'm concerned you can start committing the changes, but you
> should probably allow a few days for feedback from others.
Sure thing, I'm waiting on your patch anyway so that should give people
plenty of time.
Ian.
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