Re: A floppy driver in the debian installer kernel

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
> 
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