[Mageia-dev] RFC: Drop mkinitrd completely in favour of dracut.

Sat Dec 3 07:05:31 CET 2011

Anssi Hannula skrev 3.12.2011 01:06:
+> On 03.12.2011 00:18, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+>> Anssi Hannula skrev 2.12.2011 23:17:
+>>>
+>>> 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...
+>>
+>> Speaking of driver switching...
+>>
+>> Is it possible to detect missing radeon firmware in initrd in early
+>> boot, and then switch to loading radeon with modeset=0 ?
+>
+> Seems doable (if a bit hacky), but unfortunately new radeon cards (at
+> least cayman/northern islands) do not work without KMS at all (while
+> slightly older cards like Evergreen mostly work but without any kind of
+> 2d/3d acceleration).
+>
+
+Yeah, I started thinking about those too after my post...
+
+> This also means that X server will fail to start since it doesn't
+> fallback to autodetection (and therefore vesa) when the card is
+> explicitely listed in xorg.conf.
+>
+> Not quite sure what is the best way forward.
+>
+
+Hm, so we would need a split in detection for nonkms capable cards
+and the rest...
+
+or take the easy way out and boot everyone on vesa until radeon firmware 
+is available...
+
+>
+> BTW, shouldn't we regenerate initrds when installing radeon-firmware for
+> the first time?
+>
+
+Yeah, I've been thinking the same, but haven't gotten around to doing it 
+yet.
+
+and what about nvidia* and fglrx, should they do the same ?
+
+and for a dkms related issue, I've also been thinking we whould
+trigger dkms rebuild on kernel install to save time on next bootup.
+
+--
+Thomas
+