Hi debian-boot, * László Böszörményi (GCS) <g...@debian.org> [220730 15:34]: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 1:50 PM Chris Hofstaedtler <z...@debian.org> wrote: > > whats the status of dmraid? Do you have dmraid hardware or is this > > merely on life-support? > Please note dmraid upstream is dead for more than ten years. I might > find an old i386 hardware that needs it. > But yes, it's only on life-support.
[..] > > I'm wondering if we should remove dmraid support from the d-i as a > > first step. AFAICT Intel Software RAID is supported by mdraid, not > > sure if the other RAID platforms are still sold. > Sounds like a good idea. This will show users early Debian doesn't > plan to ship it anymore. I was digging around in the d-i code, and it appears for dmraid to be invoked, one has to boot with disk-detect/dmraid/enable. I have opened merge requests to remove the dmraid/sataraid code from d-i. The changes look like low risk to me, but obviously I have no idea. For the lack of a build environment I also didn't test them. Given d-i does nothing with dmraid unless the boot flag is present, I want to ask if dmraid could also stop shipping its udeb, if thats ok with debian-boot? Thanks, Chris
