Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Steve Langasek wrote: > > Ok. Here's some feedback on some that I either disagree with, or don't see > > enough rationale for. (This is why, ideally, the process should involve the > > porters and the maintainers...) > Thanks. Doesn't hurt do get educated... > > >>+dfsbuild: i386 alpha powerpc amd64 # [ANAIS] > >>debian from scratch installer > > Seems like it should be portable without too much trouble to other > > architectures, if there was porter interest? > Yes, OTOH it clearly needs to be adapted to whatever it's ported to, and > there haven't been any arch additions for well over a year, so it seems > interest is limited. > > For ree: > How portable is scaning /dev/mem between position 0xc0000 and 0xf0000 in > 512 byte blocks for some magic number as a concept?
Not so much. On mips/mipsel it will read some part of the running Linux kernel that way. Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]