On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 01:42:13 +0900 Simon Richter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I plan to maintain this package, regularly synchronize with the > > driver source code from its official website and fix possible > > compilation issues with different versions of linux kernel. > > Is there a timeline on integration with the mainline kernel? If it looks > like there will be a stable Debian release without this driver in > mainline, it may also be necessary to build an udeb to make it available > in the installer, and a mechanism to add the dkms package to the > installed system. >
Please note that the debian-installer team does not accept out-of-tree kernel modules because it's hard to make sure they can always align with the kernel upgrades. So it would be nice to keep just the dkms package if it is going to the archive. Regards, Aron
