[RFC] missing net drivers in 8.04+ initrd...

[Daniel J Blueman]

There are some key network card drivers not included in the initrd
shipped on the Ubuntu 8.04 (and later) ISO images; this prevents
NFS-root booting the liveCD (either unpacked or serving the squashfs
file from the ISO), and needs extra (unhelpful) steps for NFS-root
booting after installation.

Most useful drivers are already there, but in the last year or so
we've seen others become available and this default list hasn't been
updated accordingly. Above this, there are drivers for 10-gig net
cards and some other hardware (eg older Sun SPARC systems) which will
be almost never used in practise (eql, s2io, myri10g, sunhme,
sungem_phy).

I'm stuck for suggestion about exactly what package/mechanism to file
this against in LP for Intrepid Ibex, so would appreciate any
wisdom...

The list of PCI net card drivers not included is:

acenic
amd8111e
com20020-pci
atl1
e1000e
hamachi
ipg
netxen_nic
niu
sc92031
sis190
skfp
sky2
tehuti
tlan
de2104x
dmfe
uli526x
winbond-840
xircom_cb
typhoon