Re: pata drivers in the alpha installer

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.alpha
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 5/8/19 11:29 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> I now think we also need to add the "ata-modules" UDEB to the initramfs
> for the installer CDROM, as this contains the `libata` module, which
> seems to be a dependency of at least the `pata_ali` module:
> 
> ```
> root@ds25:/lib/modules/4.19.0-4-alpha-smp/kernel/drivers/ata# modprobe
> -v pata_ali
> insmod /lib/modules/4.19.0-4-alpha-smp/kernel/drivers/ata/libata.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/4.19.0-4-alpha-smp/kernel/drivers/ata/pata_ali.ko
> ```
> 
> ...and possibly others (see [2]).

Yes, again, I will look into this and add all the missing module udebs. I have
done this before multiple times and usually it's enough to sync the module
list of the affected architecture with the other architectures. Both these
udebs are common across all architectures and they are probably missing
for alpha because they were named differently in the past.

Adrian
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