Ubuntu Server Driver Disk

Implmentation of an install-time driver disc process which allows the end user to provide a driver disc which contains one or more drivers (kernel modules) that would supersede drivers found on the official Ubuntu installation media. Initial scope may be limited to boot-essential drivers, specifically storage and nic. While uncommon, some user communities may be unable to install Ubuntu do to a bug in an official-release driver. A driver disc process would allow a user (or Canonical) to release a simple driver disc with a fixed or backported driver to workaround the issue. Any/all drivers found on the driver disc would also make their way to the target filesystem so they would be available on first boot.

A driver disc was implemented with Ubuntu Desktop: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubiquity/DriverUpdates , which is designed to work with Casper and Ubiquity (the latter of which is used on Ubuntu Server). The blueprint url is "Third-party driver updates for Ubiquity" at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubiquity-driver-updates . Perhaps this blueprint's scope should simply be expanded to include Ubuntu Server?