APPLIED[L]: [K/L:unstable][PATCH] UBUNTU: [Packaging] Reintroduce VM DRM drivers into modules
Andrea Righi
andrea.righi at canonical.com
Tue Dec 13 20:18:31 UTC 2022
On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 08:59:35AM -0800, 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>
Thanks! Applied to lunar/linux and:
Acked-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi at canonical.com>
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