Bug#864423: Software RAID is not activated at boot time

From	Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.rc
Subject	Bug#864423: Software RAID is not activated at boot time
Date	2022-07-30 19:30 +0200
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Hi debian-boot,

* László Böszörményi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org> [220730 15:34]:
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 1:50 PM Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> wrote:
> > whats the status of dmraid? Do you have dmraid hardware or is this
> > merely on life-support?
>  Please note dmraid upstream is dead for more than ten years. I might
> find an old i386 hardware that needs it.
> But yes, it's only on life-support.

[..]

> > I'm wondering if we should remove dmraid support from the d-i as a
> > first step. AFAICT Intel Software RAID is supported by mdraid, not
> > sure if the other RAID platforms are still sold.
>  Sounds like a good idea. This will show users early Debian doesn't
> plan to ship it anymore.

I was digging around in the d-i code, and it appears for dmraid to
be invoked, one has to boot with disk-detect/dmraid/enable. 

I have opened merge requests to remove the dmraid/sataraid code from
d-i. The changes look like low risk to me, but obviously I have no
idea. For the lack of a build environment I also didn't test them.

Given d-i does nothing with dmraid unless the boot flag is present,
I want to ask if dmraid could also stop shipping its udeb, if thats
ok with debian-boot?

Thanks,
Chris

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Bug#864423: Software RAID is not activated at boot time Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> - 2022-07-30 19:30 +0200
  Bug#864423: Software RAID is not activated at boot time Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2022-07-31 14:40 +0200
    Bug#864423: Software RAID is not activated at boot time Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> - 2022-08-03 01:50 +0200

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