On 01/20/2017 at 05:04 PM, Dave Young wrote:
On 01/20/17 at 10:27am, Dave Young wrote:
> On 01/19/17 at 11:48pm, Xunlei Pang wrote:
>> On 01/19/2017 at 01:57 PM, Tong Li wrote:
>>> Resolves: bz1411240
>>> Use --hostonly-i18n to force dracut to install only needed
>>> keyboard and font files according to host's configuration, which
>>> reduced initramfs's size by 2M on F25 x86_64.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tong Li <tonli(a)redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>> mkdumprd | 2 +-
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/mkdumprd b/mkdumprd
>>> index 3359383..f30d9c2 100644
>>> --- a/mkdumprd
>>> +++ b/mkdumprd
>>> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ is_wdt_addition_needed
>>> [[ $? -eq 0 ]] && WDTCFG="-a watchdog"
>>>
>>> extra_modules=""
>>> -dracut_args=("--hostonly" "-o" "plymouth dash
resume ifcfg" $WDTCFG)
>>> +dracut_args=("--hostonly" "--hostonly-i18n"
"-o" "plymouth dash resume ifcfg" $WDTCFG)
>> Not sure if we even need local i18n, can we only support "English"
environment?
>> For example, I added "-o i18n" instead, and it seems work properly on
my zh_CN.UTF-8 environment.
> There was a bug before in RHEL6 about font missing, later we added
> console font to fix it, just search git log about below subject:
> "add default console font"
>
> So it depends on user setting about locale, maybe default UTF8 setup is
> fine without i18n module, but we are not sure it works with all setup..
Another thing is keyboard map, without correct keyboard map, one can not
input correctly in kdump default shell. There are various keyboard
layout besides of en
Yes, anyway this is what rhel7 currently does:
Reviewed-by: Xunlei Pang <xlpang(a)redhat.com>