On Monday 20 October 2008, 20:33:03, you wrote: > Marco Amadori wrote:
> > Is this the preferred way to achieve it? To embed the deb in the cdrom > > media? Or shall a udeb be produced from deb source, or unpack and add it > > to the initramfs (where it could satify also netboot use case)? > The only method that will currently work is to include the firmware > files in /lib/firmware of the d-i initrd. They will then be used by d-i > and copied to /target/lib/firmware. Yes I realized that would work as extrema ratio. > That's not optimal really, because the files will be copied to /target > even if the machine does not need them. Also, this will result in a > system that has files in /lib/firmware not provided by any installed > package. This it is really "suboptimal" and could lead to future misalignements, untracked files are a nightmare, although setting a standard for firmware debs could ease writing a workaround or even something like "apt-file search /lib/firmware*" would help. > A better solution would seem to be to make check-missing-firmware scan > /cdrom for debs containing needed firmware. There are some problems with > doing that, it wouldn't want to scan _all_ debs on the CD. Also, I think > that in many cases it will try to load firmware before the CD is > mounted. fjp on IRC proposed to use /cdrom/firmware for that purpose, although I think he intended to use it only for binary firmwares and not for packages. Just a two lines patch in "hw-detect/check-missing-firmware.sh" to include /cdrom/firmware in the scan could hit lenny d-i in your opinion? I added CC to the list since I mentioned other people. P.S. Please CC me too from the list. -- ESC:wq -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
