Hi Adrian, Thank you for your answer. Sorry for my -not so clear- previous message.
There is an alternative between these two patches : only one of the two may be merged. Indeed, a choice should be made : to have the floppy driver built-in (in all stock kernels or in the alpha-generic flavor only ?) or to ship the module in the udeb. I am sorry that I am not able to test (and certainly correct...) these two patches presently - but I just hope that it may help to find a solution. (actually I contemplated opening a bug report some months ago, but I never found the time to test) Regards, JH Chatenet Le mardi 21 avril à 18h 59mn 43s (+0200), John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit : > 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