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[arch-dev-public] New kernel packages and mkinitcpio hooks
by Giancarlo Razzolini 12 Nov '19

12 Nov '19

Hi All, As most of you have noticed already, the kernel packages had some recent changes where they do not install the kernel to /boot, as well as they do not have any kmod [0] nor mkinitcpio hooks anymore. Neither they do install mkinitcpio presets [1]. These changes were made after a lot of discussions between myself, Jen and the maintainers of the other kernels as well. We have spent a lot of time to arrive at this current format. [2] Kernels and presets are not installed and generated by mkinitcpio alpm hooks and scripts. All kernels that have a pkgbase entry file [3] will be processed by these scripts. We have changed all our officials kernels. Also, kernel removals are handled by mkinitcpio as well. We want to make the boot process more flexible, while also keeping it backwards compatible by default. There are a few changes I have planned for the next mkinitcpio release [4] that will help even further to achieve this. I have been working on hooks for dracut to install the kernels to /boot, as mkinitcpio does, and also create a simple configuration file for each kernel. Right now dracut does not conflict with mkinitcpio, and it is possible to have both installed at the same time on a system. The hooks I'm writing for dracut will, however, check if mkinitcpio is installed and won't run if it is. We might eventually conflict them if we decide dracut is mature enough for usage with Arch Linux. As a side note, I have been using it for the past 8 months without any issues. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini [0] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/kmo… [1] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/lin… [2] https://github.com/archlinux/mkinitcpio/pull/7 [3] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/lin… [4] https://github.com/archlinux/mkinitcpio/issues

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Re: [arch-dev-public] New kernel packages and mkinitcpio hooks
by Giancarlo Razzolini 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

Em novembro 11, 2019 16:18 Gaël PORTAY escreveu: > Hi Giancarlo, > > On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 06:41:38PM -0300, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public wrote: >> >> I have been working on hooks for dracut to install the kernels to /boot, as mkinitcpio does, and >> also create a simple configuration file for each kernel. Right now dracut does not conflict with >> mkinitcpio, and it is possible to have both installed at the same time on a system. The hooks I'm >> writing for dracut will, however, check if mkinitcpio is installed and won't run if it is. We might >> eventually conflict them if we decide dracut is mature enough for usage with Arch Linux. As a side >> note, I have been using it for the past 8 months without any issues. > > Do you have commited your hooks somewhere? I would like to have a look > to them and probably to test them. > They should land on the dracut package itself sometime this week, or start of the next week. I might commit them to svn before that, so probably keep an eye on the dracut package git repository, but I make no promises. There will probably be some default dracut configuration as well. And each kernel might end up having two dracut.d configuration files, one for each image (regular and fallback), created from a preset, in a similar way mkinitcpio does it now. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini

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[arch-dev-public] Adding package (lib32-)-amdvlk in extra (and testing)
by Laurent Carlier 10 Nov '19

10 Nov '19

I would like to add these packages in the official repositories. It's a good alternative to vulkan-radeon packages, well maintained upstream and offer a good compromise with new gfx card released.

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