ACK: [K/L:unstable][PATCH] UBUNTU: [Packaging] Reintroduce VM DRM drivers into modules

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Thu Dec 8 19:47:39 UTC 2022


On 12/8/22 9:59 AM, Luke Nowakowski-Krijger wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1996112
> 
> There was the change
> 
>      UBUNTU: [Packaging] Move VM DRM drivers into modules
> 
>      https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1960633
> 
>      We already have vboxvideo included in the linux-modules package which is
>      also included when using the linux-virtual meta. But there is a couple
>      of other DRM drivers which could be used by various VM installations
>      which run a desktop:
> 
>      - bochs-drm (? Qemu)
>      - cirrus (old standard when it comes to emulated graphics)
>      - drm_xen_front (Xen)
>      - virtio-gpu (KVM)
>      - vmwgfx (VMWare)
> 
>      All of those drivers direct dependencies are already part of
>      linux-modules.
> 
> that was introduced in jammy but somehow did not make it to kinetic and
> upwards. This leads to a regression on upgrading where these modules don't
> exist if the user does not have linux-modules-extra installed.
> 
> Fix this by reintroducing the modules into the generic.inclusion-list to
> include them in linux-modules.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luke Nowakowski-Krijger <luke.nowakowskikrijger at canonical.com>
> ---
>   debian.master/control.d/generic.inclusion-list | 5 +++++
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/debian.master/control.d/generic.inclusion-list b/debian.master/control.d/generic.inclusion-list
> index 0bb261f53696..9b9bd7c35ae0 100644
> --- a/debian.master/control.d/generic.inclusion-list
> +++ b/debian.master/control.d/generic.inclusion-list
> @@ -45,11 +45,16 @@ drivers/firmware/efi/*
>   drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.ko
>   drivers/gpio/gpio-max77620.ko
>   drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast.ko
> +drivers/gpu/drm/bochs/bochs-drm.ko
> +drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/cirrus.ko
>   drivers/gpu/drm/drm.ko
>   drivers/gpu/drm/drm_kms_helper.ko
>   drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/tegra-drm.ko
>   drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm.ko
>   drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vboxvideo.ko
> +drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtio-gpu.ko
> +drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx.ko
> +drivers/gpu/drm/xen/drm_xen_front.ko
>   drivers/gpu/host1x/host1x.ko
>   drivers/hid/hid-generic.ko
>   drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.ko
Acked-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
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Tim Gardner
Canonical, Inc




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