Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC OSSTEST 04/19] mg-debian-installer-update: Add more modules when creating initrd overlay

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2014-10-10 at 14:58 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("[PATCH RFC OSSTEST 04/19] mg-debian-installer-update: 
> Add more modules when creating initrd overlay"):
> > The arndale platform has a usb network device. In addition both the SATA and
> > NIC/USB hardware on this platform requires additional regulator (power), clk
> > and phy modules, which in turn require i2c support.
> 
> This is quite a list.  I assume we need to do this filtering to make
> the initrd not too big.

That was the original idea. Totally unscientifically:
$ du -shc armmp.deb,initrd.gz
23M     armmp.deb
5.2M    initrd.gz

Where the vast majority of the .deb is modules. So it is reducing the
size pretty considerably.

>   So:
> 
> Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Ian.



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