[linux-uc20-efi][PATCH 1/1] UBUNTU: [Debian] Add megaraid_sas into initrd

[Jesse Sung]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 1:38 AM Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 06:56:00PM +0800, Wen-chien Jesse Sung wrote:
> > BugLink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1912752
> >
> > Module megaraid_sas is required in order to some systems to boot with
> > the pc-kernel snap. Append megaraid_sas to ubuntu-core-initramfs.conf
> > before using ubuntu-core-initramfs to generate the initrd in order to
> > include the particular module.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wen-chien Jesse Sung <jesse.sung at canonical.com>
>
> Why not change this in ubuntu-core-initramfs instead? This is a kludgy
> way to add the module to the conf file, so we'd only want to do this if
> there's some reason it's unacceptable to add it to ubuntu-core-initramfs
> directly.

Including megaraid_sas into evey initramfs (including the armhf/arm64
ones) may not be what we want, especially for those devices with
limited storage space. This driver most likely is required for the
pc-kernel only.

Thanks,
Jesse

>
> Seth
>
> > ---
> >  debian/rules | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
> > index 1d85292..fc46042 100755
> > --- a/debian/rules
> > +++ b/debian/rules
> > @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ override_dh_auto_build:
> >                       apt-get download $$pkg;                                 \
> >                       dpkg-deb -x $${pkg}_*.deb $$flavour;                    \
> >               );                                                              \
> > +             echo megaraid_sas >> /usr/lib/ubuntu-core-initramfs/main/usr/lib/modules-load.d/ubuntu-core-initramfs.conf \
> >               ubuntu-core-initramfs create-initrd --output $(initrd)          \
> >                       --kernelver $(KERNEL_ABI_VERSION)-$$flavour;            \
> >               ubuntu-core-initramfs create-efi --unsigned --output $(efi)     \
> > --
> > 2.27.0
> >
> >
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