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[Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault AT sourcemage.org>]

Andrew a écrit :
> Well, its still the same fundamental topic, there is no usb support built
> into the kernel, or the initrd. Who made the decision to remove it from
> being directly in the kernel? What is there to be gained from having
> something as common as usb as modules instead of in the kernel? Isnt
> the iso kernel supposed to work on a wide range of hardware? Shouldnt
> anything thats required to actually /boot/ into a usuable system be IN
> the kernel? I can understand not having raid controllers or firewire
> controllers in the kernel since one doesnt normally boot the iso with
> them, but usb keyboards or mass storage? come on.
>
> -Andrew

No one decided and our Team Lead has been silent (My name do not even 
appears in the ISO Roadmap [0]) ... so I'm just contributing, like our 
previous Project Leader, namely Eric Schabell.

Btw, Andrew, could you post the result of testing the latest beta ISO 
since you volonteer [1] to do it?

Benoit PAPILLAULT, ISO guru

[0] http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=ISO+RoadMap
[1] https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/sm-discuss/2005-January/008907.html