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

Pierre Schmitz pierre at archlinux.de
Mon Jul 30 06:09:50 EDT 2012


Am 30.07.2012 12:03, schrieb Tobias Powalowski:
> Am 30.07.2012 11:55, schrieb Pierre Schmitz:
>> Am 30.07.2012 00:18, schrieb Tom Gundersen:
>>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
>>>> 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

Except it does not include the kernel itself. Modules without a
matching kernel are not that useful.

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