Re: [arch-dev-public] [mkinitcpio][RFC] a better fallback image?

Am 30.07.2012 11:55, schrieb Pierre Schmitz:

Am 30.07.2012 00:18, schrieb Tom Gundersen:

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On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:

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It seems to me that a more useful fallback image, would be one that is generated at compile-time, rather than at install-time, and shipped as a part of the kernel package. This would avoid user errors, and mkinitcpio run-time problems.

This fallback image should contain the widest sets of hooks and modules so that it should work on any hardware and any setup (at least to the extent possible with our current hooks). I put a PKGBUILD up on AUR[0]. Rather than making it part of the kernel package, I made it separate (at Thomas' request). At least this should make it easy to test without having to rebuild kernels.

At the moment it simply includes all the hooks I could think of. If, in the future, we would like to add more features to it (e.g. pacman, arch-install-scripts or better networking tools), we should add mkinitcpio hooks to the relevant pacakges.

Any thoughts?

Cheers,

Tom

[0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=61313 It'll be better to make it a split of the linux package to make sure modules are compatible.

As far as I understand covers it everything so no need to be compatible with the installed kernel. greetingst tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org