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

[Anssi Hannula]

On 07.12.2011 12:01, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> On 3 December 2011 19:54, zezinho <lists.jjorge at free.fr> wrote:
>> Le samedi 3 décembre 2011 00:06:31, Anssi Hannula a écrit :
>>> BTW, shouldn't we regenerate initrds when installing radeon-firmware for
>>> the first time?
>>
>> Yes : I had this problem testing Alpha1 DVD on a RV100 hardware.
>>
>> - no firmware installed as nonfree repo is not enabled
>> - no X after install (I should have tested in the installer?)
>> - installed radeon firmware, reboot, still no X
>> - updated initrd, then it works
> 
> Anssi maybe should we alter drakx-kbd-mouse-x11 & harddrake:
> we could run modinfo on the module for the card, check whether
> the reported firmware in the output are available or not, and
> enable kms accordingly (with defaulting to vesa instead of radeon
> on r700+ due to the faillure to run without KMS support)

Here you say r700+, and on bug #3466 you say r600+, but according to
http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeatureUMS they should work with UMS.

Do you have some additional information on this that indicates we should
disallow UMS on r600 or r700 as well?

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Anssi Hannula