[Feature Request] Add support for Dell Driver Injection Disk
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Fedora |
Fix Released
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High
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Suse |
Unknown
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Unknown
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hw-detect (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Colin Watson | ||
Hardy |
Won't Fix
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Karmic |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Colin Watson | ||
mountmedia (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Colin Watson | ||
Hardy |
Won't Fix
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Karmic |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
|
Colin Watson |
Bug Description
Upcoming Dell servers will be supporting a new technology called "Driver Injection Disks". These are essentially read only flash drives that are connected internally on the USB bus containing drivers preloaded from the factory.
They are intended to be used during OS installation for an OS release that doesn't yet include support for the drivers in a server natively. RHEL and SLES have both adopted it already into their installers.
Here are the key points about it:
1) It will show up as a VFAT disk with the label OEMDRV
2) Drivers from many OSes may be contained on the VFAT disk at any given time. This means that if a server is certified against Ubuntu 8.04, RHEL 5.3, Windows Server 2008, and Ubuntu 10.04, that drivers will be on for each of these OSes. Because of this, it's important to account for possible collisions. For Ubuntu releases, this is solved by shipping Ubuntu drivers in:
$mnt/ubuntu/
3) This VFAT disk will always be exposed as read only to the user during installation. Using Dell supported tools however, it can be injected with updated drivers if the customer would like.
4) This option should be preseedable, so in the event that Dell was to ship an Ubuntu server with Ubuntu preloaded, the drivers should be able to be installed from the Driver Injection Disk in the factory.
5) When not preseeded, the customer should be offered the option to use the drivers on the Driver Injection Disk, with the default choice being No.
Related branches
- VCS imports: Pending requested
- Diff: None lines
Changed in hw-detect (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → cjwatson |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in mountmedia (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → cjwatson |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Triaged |
summary: |
- Add support for Dell Driver Injection Disk + [Feature Request] Add support for Dell Driver Injection Disk |
Changed in fedora: | |
status: | Fix Released → In Progress |
Changed in mountmedia (Ubuntu Hardy): | |
milestone: | ubuntu-8.04.3 → ubuntu-8.04.4 |
Changed in dell: | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in somerville: | |
status: | New → Won't Fix |
no longer affects: | dell |
Changed in fedora: | |
importance: | Unknown → High |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #316481 +++
Description of problem and the rationale.
Anaconda needs to automatically (without passing command line options at boot)
look for kernel modules and load them. The drivers will be packaged in the new
redhat driver disk format.
Dell suggests that this could be done in the loader, just after loading the
driver disks in the usual method (linux dd).
Code in RHEL 5.3 anaconda which searches for drivers on discovered media having a file system label OEMDRV needs to be forward-ported to Fedora rawhide.