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Re: Uploading linux (6.18.3-1)

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Hi Salvatore,

And thanks again for those mails, much welcome. Especially when they're
not about “no packaging changes”. ;-)

I'm pinpointing a few things that I should look into (which I cannot do
right away).

Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> (2026-01-02):
>   * Make dracut the preferred initramfs generator.

This caught my eye but I see you're addressing that below.

>   * Move dtb into modules directory.

This too, I suppose this might impact some packages like raspi-firmware
(maintainers bcc'd) which copy some DTBs around.

>   * Split modules out of kernel-image udeb.

I suppose this is about shuffling .ko between udebs, so that might be
transparent for the installer's runtime.

>   * [arm64] Add initial Raspberry Pi 5 support
>     - enable MMC_SDHCI_BRCMSTB, GPIO_BRCMSTB, PINCTRL_BRCMSTB
>       and PINCTRL_BCM2712 as modules
>     - enable OF_OVERLAY
>     - enable MISC_RP1 as a module

I had seen a few required patches land upstream lately, it's good to see
the configuration options are getting in as well!

  https://salsa.debian.org/raspi-team/image-specs/-/issues/74

> So we cover a couple of further HW support enablements, the introduction
> of a base package for version sync, enablement of building rust drivers
> and features and the switch to dracut as the preferred initramfs
> generator.
> 
> The switch of the preferred initramfs generator to dracut is a first
> step towards the plan to switch to dracut by default. There is work
> planned to make support for d-i, Benjamin is aiming to make a list of
> packages that ship initramfs-tools hooks in Debian.

I was going about the existence of such a list. :)

Bug reports, patches, MRs are welcome for d-i components. If bug reports
are precise enough (what needs changing, what the target should look
like), I suppose we could help write patches… but that would require some
heavy learning session (at least for me) as my only bit of dracut-related
knowledge is that dracut-install exists and is used by recent
initramfs-tools versions…


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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Uploading linux (6.18.3-1) Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2026-01-02 14:40 +0100
  Re: Uploading linux (6.18.3-1) Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2026-01-03 05:10 +0100
    Re: Uploading linux (6.18.3-1) Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2026-01-03 20:40 +0100

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