On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 09:56:12AM +0000, David Gilbert wrote: > > 1) Is there agreement that for all the kernels we supply that we > > should change the policy for kernel configs to not default to > > everything on? > > (Maybe we should be using the upstream config with minimal modifications?)
> > Pro: everyone benefits from the diet > > Con: Our kernel would be build slightly different than ubuntu's > > others: > Can't we keep stuff configured as modules but move some of the modules out > into > other binary packages? That way everyone benefits from the diet, but > it wouldn't stop anyone installing it if they had weird needs. > I also don't think it would be a bad idea to propose making the same > change to the > Ubuntu kernels if you want to keep the differences down. > I'd support turning the really obscure stuff off though, That involves a non-trivial amount of build engineering that isn't going to get done this cycle (and definitely not in the Ubuntu kernels). If we want to exclude a module completely, we can turn it off in the config; but if we want to build it and simply package it separately, that's a whole new build system layer that we have to deal with. It could probably reuse some of kernel-wedge's existing handling of module dependencies and so forth; but even so it's not achievable for this cycle. > > 2) Linaro-media-create shouldn't install linux-firmware_1.47_all.deb ? > > Do we have any any hardware that needs it? If so could there be a > > --nano option to not install it? > Aren't there a few boards with PCI which could take a whole variety > of boards some of which will need firmware? It's surprising just how > many things need it, and if it was your ethernet adapter it's really > nasty to fix. But I think I agree in generally it could be off by default. My thought here was USB rather than PCI. I think many of the boards have USB interfaces, and I think there's a non-zero number of USB devices that require externally-loaded firmware. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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