'Twas brillig, and Anssi Hannula at 02/12/11 21:17 did gyre and gimble: > On 02.12.2011 15:57, Anssi Hannula wrote: >> On 02.12.2011 13:28, Colin Guthrie wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Just a suggestion! Should we move wholesale to dracut? >>> >>> It's very easy to hack on, and Harald Hoyer has been very helpful and >>> has merged some of the patches we carried locally (which I mostly copied >>> from Mandriva). Not sure why they were not upstreamed before. >>> >>> There are still a couple patches we carry locally (soon to be less when >>> Harald pushes his git repo and I rebase), but they are pretty trivial, >>> understandable and easily maintainable (mostly they will be stylistic >>> tweaks and naming variations - i.e. very minor). >>> >>> Modprobe rules are included even in the initrd so tweaks there follow >>> through. >>> >>> I'm not necessarily against keeping mkinitrd, but I think we should take >>> the time from now until the beta phase to obsolte mkinitrd and force >>> everyone to use dracut in order to see if there are any issues and then >>> make the call before next beta or rc. >> >> +1 >> >> One thing that doesn't work with dracut yet is that it only includes the >> KMS drivers into initramfs if they are loaded at the time of initramfs >> creation, causing unoptimal boot screen when a) initramfs created by the >> installer (I guess), and when b) user has switched a driver non-kms -> kms. >> >> This can probably be solved by some patching of >> modules.d/50plymouth/module-setup.sh, but I haven't looked at it closely >> yet. > > Patch attached. I guess this would remain as a Mageia specific patch as > the wanted behavior is dependant on how the distribution handles driver > switching etc... > > Shall I apply it?
I just updated dracut with another patch, so I included this one too. I know there is ongoing discussions about firmwares etc. but I think this patch still stands alone. I'll discuss with Harald if there is a way to upstream this in a semi generic way. If not, we just carry it as a local patch. Thanks Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
