Hi, Colin Watson writes:
> Is the -g5 kernel at least compatible with the -power4 modules? (On > the face of it, it seems that it should be, > with the exception of the extra serial modules on -g5 Those are gone in 2.6.5-2 ... > which presumably we don't want to use anyway. ... for precisely this reason. > In that case, we could save a fair bit of space by shipping both > kernels but only one set of modules, and somehow educating d-i about > this. This would add considerable obfuscation at several points. The build process is now designed such that flavours can be added and removed with minimum fuss. The resulting packages each provide a working kernel and modules without further ado. The d-i can simply offer a selection of them. In order to really save space, one should probably turn upon the SMP flavours. Unfortunately, I don't have a single processor G5 here, but I ran some casual tests on a single processor G4 yesterday, and the overhead from running an SMP kernel did not affect performance noticeably. Maybe we should use SMP kernels for d-i as a general rule, and move the single processor flavours to the second disc. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!
