[Lucid][PATCH] UBUNTU: ARM: Adding MosChip MCS7830 to nic-usb

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 26.05.2010, 21:57 -0400 schrieb Chase Douglas:

> Some of these modules are very esoteric. I doubt anyone is going to try
> to install Lucid on a Zaurus (or tethered through a Zaurus, if that's
> what the module does) *. Is there pressure on udeb sizes to make us be
> concerned about throwing in modules that may never be used, especially
> at install time?
note that this is for ARM, there are plenty of ARM users that own a
fully working zaurus and also use a beagleboard, if you lack a NIC but
have an OTG cable to hook up to your zaurus thats a good option to get
network connection ...

yes, i know us ARM people are a bit crazy but we shouldnt limit the HW
support based on mental state of the users *g*
> 
> For that matter, what networking support is used at install time? I
> assume the only purpose is for alternative installs where you do a
> network installation. Are people doing these types of installations with
> usb networking?
yes, 100% of the beagleboard users (and many many other ARM board users
of boards that dont come with an on board NIC and for which the only
external socket to attach other devices is USB).
note that the netinstall [1] image on the beagle [2] is the only way of
not having to use an additional target device (you can install directly
to the SD card you booted from instead of having to use a USB disk/key
additionally) so it is very popular.
> 
> I assume we also won't be respinning an installation image for lucid, so
> I'm not sure how useful these changes are for us. Is the mobile team
> spinning new installation images?
we are building a 10.07 omap release based on 10.04.1 and i would also
suspect that the 10.10 config is roughly based on the 10.04 one.

ciao
	oli

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/BeagleNetInstall
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/Beagle
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