Hello! On 4/21/20 4:00 PM, jhcha54008 wrote: > PS : it is the opportunity to thank you (and Samuel Thibault) for all your > work on the alpha kernel and > towards a working debian installer on alpha - and the other ports !
You're welcome. Although it's sometimes so frustrating that I'm considering to stop. But I can still keep myself motivated. > First patch : have the floppy driver built-in > > diff -Naur a/linux-5.5.17/debian/config/alpha/config > b/linux-5.5.17/debian/config/alpha/config > --- a/linux-5.5.17/debian/config/alpha/config 2020-04-15 04:35:16.000000000 > +0200 > +++ b/linux-5.5.17/debian/config/alpha/config 2020-04-21 15:31:52.645845117 > +0200 > @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ > ## > ## file: drivers/block/Kconfig > ## > -CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m > +CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UMEM=m > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SX8=m > CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD=m > > Second patch : ship the floppy module in the kernel udeb > > diff -Naur a/linux-5.5.17/debian/installer/modules/alpha-generic/kernel-image > b/linux-5.5.17/debian/installer/modules/alpha-generic/kernel-image > --- a/linux-5.5.17/debian/installer/modules/alpha-generic/kernel-image > 2018-12-29 20:49:45.000000000 +0100 > +++ b/linux-5.5.17/debian/installer/modules/alpha-generic/kernel-image > 2020-04-21 15:36:55.527347025 +0200 > @@ -1 +1,2 @@ > #include <kernel-image> > +floppy I don't think it makes sense to add a floppy module when you compile floppy support into the kernel. If it's compiled in, the driver is always present. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913