On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 01:07:55PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > 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.
Cool, thanks. I will be back on monday, and probably have some time on saturday. But doing d-i work offline without local mirror is no fun. > > > > 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. Well, maybe it will work. It has some limitations though, since lot of things had to go as modules. In particular i don't believe it will work with nfs root or such things. In particular it has not been largely tested on powerpc hardware as the -powerpc ones have been. I would prefer that both are built for now, and once we get more wide testing of the -small ones, we may be able to switch to it. > > 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. Well, boot-floppies died because of that, but then they used 2.2 by default on most arches. > > 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. Yep, naturally. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
