On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 06:28:51AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > network/linux-<flavour> (amiga, atari, ...) > > > network/initrd-<flavour>.gz > > > hd-media/linux-<flavour> > > > hd-media/initrd-<flavout>.gz
> > For hd-media, the bootfloppy currently looks for a file named initrd.gz > > on the disk, so it would be useful if it had that name. Of course I > > could hardcode the flavor in, or look for initrd*. It's not clear to me > > what the flavour would be for i386. > Its more a <model> than <flavour>. They are incompatible in the way > that they contain specific support and modules for that arch. > A Atari or Mac kernel might not even get its first boot message out > before some Amiga hardware does something unexpected and stops the > kernel. > network/amiga/linux network/amiga/initrd.gz > That better? > i386 wouldn't need it but powerpc and alpha need it too. Why does alpha need this? Everything I've seen indicates that in 2.4, all alpha subarchs can be supported by a single kernel. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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