From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harald Hoyer Subject: Re: [PATCH] 50drm: Install dracut 50drm module in hostonly mode when drm driver is currently in use. Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 14:09:09 +0200 Message-ID: <51A49E65.9000206@redhat.com> References: <1369383763-24956-1-git-send-email-chaowang@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1369383763-24956-1-git-send-email-chaowang-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: WANG Chao Cc: dyoung-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, bhe-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org On 05/24/2013 10:22 AM, WANG Chao wrote: > Now only 50plymouth module can pull in 50drm and that's very limited. > Because KMS capable drm drivers are much needed in initrd to have a > frame buffer console on the screen. > > Particularly, when building kdump initrd, plymouth module is omitted, > but drm is necessary to setup a working screen for one sitting in front > of a monitor. > > Signed-off-by: WANG Chao > --- > modules.d/50drm/module-setup.sh | 4 ++++ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/modules.d/50drm/module-setup.sh b/modules.d/50drm/module-setup.sh > index bf33c5b..648e8f4 100644 > --- a/modules.d/50drm/module-setup.sh > +++ b/modules.d/50drm/module-setup.sh > @@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ > # ex: ts=8 sw=4 sts=4 et filetype=sh > > check() { > + if [[ $hostonly ]] && [ -d /sys/module/drm/drivers ]; then > + return 0 > + fi > + > return 255 > } > > Hmm, why not let the kdump module depend on drm? depends() { echo drm } Anyway, do we really need drm for a simple console? Those drivers are really really big and take a long time to load and initialize?