Package: base-installer Version: 1.72 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi,
A popular French datacenter called Dedibox [1] is using a specifically built motherboard with a VIA C7 processor. Via a secure web interface, you can install Debian Sarge among other distros (with their untrusty closed source system). I am currently setting up a documentation to use the official Debian Installer with the official Debian kernels on that machine. Once done, I will put a link on the Debian Wiki. By default, only the -486 subarch is available at most, because /proc/cpuinfo is different from other x86 machines, i.e. neither AMD nor Intel... Therefore, I did a patch to get the -686 subarch available on that distinct hardware with all the flavours, e.g. xen, vserver, xen+vserver. Please consider the attached patch against the current SVN. Cheers, [1] <http://www.dedibox.fr/> -- .''`. Aurélien GÉRÔME : :' : `. `'` Free Software Developer `- Unix Sys & Net Admin
Index: kernel/tests/i386/via-c7.test
===================================================================
--- kernel/tests/i386/via-c7.test (révision 0)
+++ kernel/tests/i386/via-c7.test (révision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+cpuinfo via-c7.cpuinfo
+machine i686
+majors 2.6
+flavour 686
+env SPEAKUP /nonexistent
+kernel-2.6 \
+ linux-image-2.6-686 \
+ linux-image-2.6-486 \
+ kernel-image-2.6-686 \
+ kernel-image-2.6-386
+usable \
+ linux-image-2.6-486 \
+ linux-image-2.6-686-smp \
+ linux-image-2.6-686 \
+ linux-image-2.6.18-1-486 \
+ linux-image-2.6.18-1-686-smp \
+ linux-image-2.6.18-1-686
+unusable \
+ linux-image-2.6-k7-smp \
+ linux-image-2.6-k7 \
+ linux-image-2.6.18-1-k7-smp \
+ linux-image-2.6.18-1-k7
Index: kernel/tests/i386/via-c7.cpuinfo
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--- kernel/tests/i386/via-c7.cpuinfo (révision 0)
+++ kernel/tests/i386/via-c7.cpuinfo (révision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+processor : 0
+vendor_id : CentaurHauls
+cpu family : 6
+model : 10
+model name : VIA Esther processor 2000MHz
+stepping : 9
+cpu MHz : 1995.084
+cache size : 128 KB
+fdiv_bug : no
+hlt_bug : no
+f00f_bug : no
+coma_bug : no
+fpu : yes
+fpu_exception : yes
+cpuid level : 1
+wp : yes
+flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge cmov
pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm nx pni est tm2 rng rng_en ace ace_en ace2
ace2_en phe phe_en pmm pmm_en
+bogomips : 3994.32
Index: kernel/i386.sh
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--- kernel/i386.sh (révision 45107)
+++ kernel/i386.sh (copie de travail)
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
*) echo 386 ;;
esac
;;
- " GenuineIntel"|" GenuineTMx86"*)
+ " GenuineIntel"|" GenuineTMx86"|" CentaurHauls"*)
case "$FAMILY" in
" 6"|" 15") echo 686 ;;
" 5") echo 586tsc ;;
Index: debian/changelog
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--- debian/changelog (révision 45107)
+++ debian/changelog (copie de travail)
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+base-installer (1.73) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Add VIA C7 processor definition.
+
+ -- Aurélien GÉRÔME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:58:27 +0100
+
base-installer (1.72) unstable; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
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