Comment # 3 on bug 1224404 from Fabian Vogt
(In reply to Antonio Feijoo from comment #2)
> (In reply to Antonio Feijoo from comment #1)
> > (In reply to Fabian Vogt from comment #0)
> > But, there is a problem with the second part. Nowadays, current upstream
> > admins do not like to pull things based on which kernel modules are loaded
> > on the running systemd. See:
> > - https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/pull/2412#discussion_r1239313722
> > - https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng/issues/236

Yeah, reading /proc/modules is wrong. Making decisions based on plugged
hardware through modalias would be fine though.

> Related to this, would it make sense to always add drm in aarch64
> unconditionally? Before joining SUSE I used to work with custom boards to be
> used within satellite transceivers without any display, the only way to
> interact with them was via serial port or network, so in that case including
> drm would be useless, but harmless I guess?

Depends on the size IMO. On x86 at least DRM pulls in a huge mess^W mass of
kernel modules and firmware. nvidia alone needs ~60MiB...


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