From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC OSSTEST 04/19] mg-debian-installer-update: Add more modules when creating initrd overlay Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 15:08:02 +0100 Message-ID: <1412950082.27111.25.camel@citrix.com> References: <1412942404.27111.12.camel@citrix.com> <1412942554-752-4-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com> <21559.58908.155248.265256@mariner.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <21559.58908.155248.265256@mariner.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Jackson Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Fri, 2014-10-10 at 14:58 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Ian Campbell writes ("[PATCH RFC OSSTEST 04/19] mg-debian-installer-update: Add more modules when creating initrd overlay"): > > The arndale platform has a usb network device. In addition both the SATA and > > NIC/USB hardware on this platform requires additional regulator (power), clk > > and phy modules, which in turn require i2c support. > > This is quite a list. I assume we need to do this filtering to make > the initrd not too big. That was the original idea. Totally unscientifically: $ du -shc armmp.deb,initrd.gz 23M armmp.deb 5.2M initrd.gz Where the vast majority of the .deb is modules. So it is reducing the size pretty considerably. > So: > > Acked-by: Ian Jackson > > Ian.