On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:19:47PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 07:54:52AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > Colin Watson writes: > > > It's not cheap at all. > > > > As it stands, it's the price to pay for supporting the major flagships > > of the PowerPC architecture out of the box. > > 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 which presumably we don't want to use anyway.) 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.
The main problem is that it would be preferable for the serial driver to be builtin on power4, so you can get an early serial console. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
