On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 03:30:31PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 14:58, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 02:56:28PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 13:39, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 07:08:49PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > BTW, can i now remove the udeb packages from the powerpc kernel packages ? > > > Yes, if you agree that they should be handeld by linux-kernel-di. > > > > Well, is that not the idea ? I have no trouble with that, i just need to > > add the necessary magic to linux-kernel-di. > Yes that is the idea. I just wanted to make sure that you agree. You
Yes, i do, now that i understand better the way linux-kernel-di works. The new packages have to make it to the archive though, before anything can happen on this front. > don't have to add much magic to linux-kernel-di. I already did that for > the powerpc-pmac and powerpc-small-pmac flavours. So we are already able Basically, we would have to get the modules from the kernel-module packages, and the kernels from each individual kernel-image package. Additionally we would need to use the debian-build package to produce the kernels with builtin initrd, but this hasn't been sucessfull for me, i somewhat fear that the initrd are too big to be builtin (the limit is at 3.2Mo or something such, or maybe 4Mo - kernel size (1.5Mo). The woody boot-floppy root.bin is easily embeddable, but any try with the d-i initrd fails to find init. Finally, we would need to add support for powerpc/apus. I will be looking at this with goswin, and maybe simon or michael. I have contact with many other apus using folk too, which would be ready to test those images. > to produce the same images as we had prior to the new release. What we > need is a way to support all the other powerpc subarchitectures. Yep, but first the ftp-master have to accept the new kernel images. > It's probably the best to find a way how we can make severel > kernel-image udebs in one run (for one line in kernel-versions -> see > linux-kernel-di). One for each subarchitecture. The module udebs will > stay the same for all the subarchitectures. Yes, except apus/powerpc/powerpc-small, which will cause 3 root images containing 3 set of modules. > Additionaly we need a way to handle architectures which need builtin > initrds. AFAIK anybody would appreciate an addition to the current build Yep, as said, i have been working on that, but altough i can use woody root.bin for it, the current d-i images fail. > system to build images for them. It would be nice, if this solution > works not only for powerpc but also for other archs that face the same Yep, altough other arches (sparc in particular) have the piggyback tool to handle this. > problem. Probably it would be best to talk to Karsten Merker > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) as he is working on the mips port and has the same > problem. AFAIK you already have some ideas how this could be done. Ok, i will see with him, but also contact the linux-ppc folk to see about the limit of embedded initrds. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
