[Lucid][PATCH] UBUNTU: ARM: Adding MosChip MCS7830 to nic-usb

Amit Kucheria amit.kucheria at canonical.com
Thu May 27 07:19:19 UTC 2010


On 10 May 26, Chase Douglas wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 21:57 -0400, Chase Douglas wrote:
> > For that matter, what networking support is used at install time? I
> > assume the only purpose is for alternative installs where you do a
> > network installation. Are people doing these types of installations with
> > usb networking?
> > 
> > I assume we also won't be respinning an installation image for lucid, so
> > I'm not sure how useful these changes are for us. Is the mobile team
> > spinning new installation images?
> 
> For these latter two paragraphs, I should have referred to the
> BugLink :). It seems we do have people using usb networking for net
> installations, and the bug was filed by someone on our mobile team, so
> they must be respinning installation images.

LTS releases are respun (every 6 months?). So we will see a 10.04.1, 10.04.2,
etc.

> Still, I think we may want to consider paring the additions down to
> modern modules to conserve space.

I believe that the ? indicates that only those modules that are built are
included in the .udeb.

Cheers,
Amit

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