Re: Dropping wpasupplicant from sparc netboot image
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 01:41:30PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: [correct the debian-sparc address] On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 01:37:06PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: Hello, As we discovered recently, the daily sparc netboot image exceeds 10MB limit imposed by OpenBoot, so it fails to boot. I've poked at it a bit, and it seems that one of the most straightforward ways to make room is to drop wpasupplicant and all its dependencies (libcrypto, crypto kernel modules) which account for significant amount of space on the initrd. AFAIK, sparc does not have any hardware which does wifi natively, and while it's in theory possible to use some usb-wifi dongle to do the installation, I don't remember any reports of anyone doing it. The straightforward way to achieve this goal is to make netcfg not depend on wpasupplicant for sparc (same way as s390 currently does). This will drop wpasupplicant (and, subsequently, installation over wireless support) not only from netboot, but also from all other installation media (like businesscard iso). Let me know if you have any objections, otherwise I'll commit necessary fixes in a couple of days. Nobody screamed loudly, so I've committed the necessary change to netcfg [0] and will release a new version later today - this is your last chance to object. [0] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/netcfg.git;a=commitdiff;h=630d929f282ac8b45243acf6ad6d4425779828db Best regards, -- Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111029110450.ga16...@wooyd.org
Dropping wpasupplicant from sparc netboot image
Hello, As we discovered recently, the daily sparc netboot image exceeds 10MB limit imposed by OpenBoot, so it fails to boot. I've poked at it a bit, and it seems that one of the most straightforward ways to make room is to drop wpasupplicant and all its dependencies (libcrypto, crypto kernel modules) which account for significant amount of space on the initrd. AFAIK, sparc does not have any hardware which does wifi natively, and while it's in theory possible to use some usb-wifi dongle to do the installation, I don't remember any reports of anyone doing it. The straightforward way to achieve this goal is to make netcfg not depend on wpasupplicant for sparc (same way as s390 currently does). This will drop wpasupplicant (and, subsequently, installation over wireless support) not only from netboot, but also from all other installation media (like businesscard iso). Let me know if you have any objections, otherwise I'll commit necessary fixes in a couple of days. Best regards, -- Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111023123706.ga5...@wooyd.org
Re: Dropping wpasupplicant from sparc netboot image
[correct the debian-sparc address] On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 01:37:06PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: Hello, As we discovered recently, the daily sparc netboot image exceeds 10MB limit imposed by OpenBoot, so it fails to boot. I've poked at it a bit, and it seems that one of the most straightforward ways to make room is to drop wpasupplicant and all its dependencies (libcrypto, crypto kernel modules) which account for significant amount of space on the initrd. AFAIK, sparc does not have any hardware which does wifi natively, and while it's in theory possible to use some usb-wifi dongle to do the installation, I don't remember any reports of anyone doing it. The straightforward way to achieve this goal is to make netcfg not depend on wpasupplicant for sparc (same way as s390 currently does). This will drop wpasupplicant (and, subsequently, installation over wireless support) not only from netboot, but also from all other installation media (like businesscard iso). Let me know if you have any objections, otherwise I'll commit necessary fixes in a couple of days. Best regards, -- Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111023124130.ga5...@wooyd.org
