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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] RFC: Drop mkinitrd completely in favour of dracut.</H1>
    <B>Thomas Backlund</B> 
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    <I>Sat Dec  3 07:05:31 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>Anssi Hannula skrev 3.12.2011 01:06:
&gt;<i> On 03.12.2011 00:18, Thomas Backlund wrote:
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Anssi Hannula skrev 2.12.2011 23:17:
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Patch attached. I guess this would remain as a Mageia specific patch as
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> the wanted behavior is dependant on how the distribution handles driver
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> switching etc...
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Speaking of driver switching...
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Is it possible to detect missing radeon firmware in initrd in early
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> boot, and then switch to loading radeon with modeset=0 ?
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Seems doable (if a bit hacky), but unfortunately new radeon cards (at
</I>&gt;<i> least cayman/northern islands) do not work without KMS at all (while
</I>&gt;<i> slightly older cards like Evergreen mostly work but without any kind of
</I>&gt;<i> 2d/3d acceleration).
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>
Yeah, I started thinking about those too after my post...

&gt;<i> This also means that X server will fail to start since it doesn't
</I>&gt;<i> fallback to autodetection (and therefore vesa) when the card is
</I>&gt;<i> explicitely listed in xorg.conf.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Not quite sure what is the best way forward.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>
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...

&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> BTW, shouldn't we regenerate initrds when installing radeon-firmware for
</I>&gt;<i> the first time?
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>
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.

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Thomas
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