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Sven Luther wrote:
|> |> 20 sets of udebs, but just the common ones that can manage to |> |> boot everything since the installer will make the proper |> decision |> later. | | | No. This works for the -up against -smp |> ones, and maybe for the | upcoming ppc64/generic and |> ppc64/generic-power4, but for the rest | of it, they are trully |> separate kernel which will not run on boxes | they are not meant |> to. |> |> ok.. let's try another example: |> |> Arch foo has 20 different kind of subarches and each of them has |> 4 different flavours. For simplicity we will call them |> subarchN-flavM. where M can be: 0 = no optimizations of any kind. |> 1= optimization1 2 = ... 3 = ... | | | No, i don't believe this is the reality out there apart on x86. | each arch has a number of subarches, but not really significant | amount of optimizations.
See Steve Langasek post with proper numbers: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2004/11/msg00684.html
|> due to the fact that flav0 is common to the entire subarch. | | | I also have some doubt that you can without risk reuse the modules | of a given subarch flavour with another flavour in most cases out | there.
I did never mixed them Sven. see again the numbers and what i wrote in the thread. The patch generates all the required udebs. All of them from the kernel to the modules.
| |> This kind of "optimization" can apply to all the arch. You |> maintain the subarch (otherwise it doesn't boot). You kill the |> unrequired flavours. This reduces a lot the amount of udebs that |> you need. | | | Yes, but i don't think your reasoning applies outside of x86. At | least it doesn't on powerpc right now, so there is not much you can | do.
see the same post as above... i386 is one arch with 2 subarch and generates more udebs than arm with 5 subarch and yes.. i can see myself that ppc is the one with biggest amount.. tought.. it could have been any other arch like s390 or m68k or ....
Fabio
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