Am Mit, den 24.12.2003 schrieb Sven Luther um 07:38: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 09:45:14PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Sven Luther wrote: > > > Saddly, it is as i have feared, that the package will be accpepted on > > > the eve of me going out for christmas and being offline until monday the > > > 29. But well, this is the disorganized way debian works, and we have to > > > make do. > > > > > > So, i will try to fix this evening and tomorrow morning, but i would > > Saddly, i was not able to work on this yesterday nor this morning. Sven, enjoy your christmas. As long as the powerpc daily builds are not working again there's no need to hurry up. > > > > appreciate if other persons interested in the debian port would also > > > look at it after that, in particular to make sure that i didn't break > > > stuff on non chrp hardware. > > > > Do I need to turn on powerpc udeb building in linux-kernel-di now? This > > will involve yet another trip through NEW, though with luck a ftpmaster > > will be available. > > Yes, please. If you do that, i will fix the post processing that is > needed making builtin initrd kernels. > > Basically, we need to install the following packages : > > kernel-image-2.4.22-powerpc-chrp > kernel-image-2.4.22-powerpc-chrp-rs6k > kernel-image-2.4.22-powerpc-pmac > kernel-image-2.4.22-powerpc-prep > kernel-image-2.4.22-powerpc-small-pmac > > These ones are for the kernels. the chrp, chrp-rs6k and prep will > contain vmlinuz-2.4.22-powerpc kernels, and both -pmac ones will contain > vmlinux (and vmlinux.coff, but we can ignore this one for now). The > -small-pmac is needed for the miboot/oldworld floppy target someone > needs to work on. > > Then you need to get : > > kernel-modules-2.4.22-powerpc > kernel-modules-2.4.22-powerpc-small > > Which contains the modules for the -powerpc kernels above and/or the > -powerpc-small ones. Notice that this means building two different > initrds, since to make the kernel smaller, we removed lot of stuff that > may be needed. Also the floppy target initrd needs to fit on a floppy. Is there a reason why the small flavour should not work for all systems? I would prefer to only use this flavour if it works for an arch. Using modules makes the whole thing much more flexible.
> > And finally, there is need to install the : > > kernel-build-2.4.22-powerpc > > Which i will use in a later step to build the kernel with builtin > initrd. this package contains a tarball, which once uncompressed is able > to build the initrd kernels. There is a very basic script in the > toplevel of the tarball which allows you to do that. If i remember well, > you just pass it the path of the initrd and it will build you all the > builtin initrd kernels. ONly problem remaining, but this is a kernel > problem, is that the bigger initrd is still problematic on chrp, but i > need to look into this more. Difficult stuff though. > > > > Also, i have a problem concerning the devfs stuff. There is a (generic) > > > bug in the kernel, which makes the /proc/partitions show the devfs path > > > even if devfs is not mounted. This is problematic, since altough the > > > tools will be able to handle that, it will really be confusing for the > > > users. > > > > That bug was also present in the (2.4) kernel shipped with woody, AFAIK. > > Yeah, but if i remember well, the devfs was not compiled in in 2.4, and > thus the bug was not present. It is compiled into kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386. This is now the standard kernel for woody on i386. Probably it was not compiled into the powerpc kernel, but this should not make a difference. > > I have a patch fixing this, but i don't know how it behaves when devfs > is mounted. Please make sure your patch works in any circumstances before applying it, because as far as we know until now this bug fixes only a cosmetic issue. > > > > Now, would it make sense to postpone the beta2 to a more reasonable > > > date (january 11 for example), or do we drop powerpc support for the > > > beta2 and release a beta3 shortly thereafter ? A December 31 beta2 > > > release date would be ok also, since i will be again here the 29 and 30, > > > and be able to fix stuff if needed. > > > > I would like to wait and see how the powerpc stuff turns out. If you can > > get it back in shape in the next few days, I think we could perhaps > > still manage a release before Jan 1st. If it slips to the middle of > > That would be fine, since i will have time for this on december 29 & 30 > for it full time. > > > january, I will be away a week around the 6th-14th (limited time for d-i > > them), which won't be good. We seem to be in good shape otherwise, > > though it needs a lot more testing. > > Yeah, that we need. > > Thanks for postponing, i will make all my possible for us to be ready > for it. Is some progress going on with respect to the powerpc daily builds or is the plan to ship beta2 with manually built images? Gaudenz > > BTW, how did the autopartkit/libparted problem turn out finally ? I have > gotten no more info about it from Petter. > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
