Tom Rini wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 02:50:05PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:13:39PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:14:42PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > > > > coff images are still useful for booting oldworlds no? > > > > > > > > Yes, but they just aren't 'zImage.pmac'. I couldn't decide > > > > which of the 3 to point to. > > > > > > is there a better image for booting directly via OF on oldworld now? > > > if so use that instead. you should provide only: > > > > > > 1: an image suitable for standard bootloaders: yaboot, quik > > > 2: an image suitable for booting directly via OF: ?? > > > > > > 1: is the priority, 2 is not so important, just a would be handy. > > > (esp for bootfloppies, perhaps). > > > > And don't forget also an image bootable on apus. > > Er, someone else will have to do that.
Are we talking about integrating APUS in the powerpc kernel-image packages here? I'm the maintainer of the -apus package. I thought about integrating but figured it might not work out too well because APUS needs an additional patch which might delay things. > APUS is currently broken in the main tree, and I haven't seen the patch > (pointers, please!) to what makes it work again. The canonical source for APUS is the CVS tree at SourceForge. > If it's still 'vmapus' I think I remember what I tried to do for 'em... Changing that should be rather easy, I hacked around that a bit for the 2.4.4 package. > > what we really need there is just a plain gzipped vmlinux file, since > > there are no boot loader only ami/apus boot. > > Would it be too much to have the gzip'ing happen later? quik/yaboot want > it ungzip'ed... I don't see a problem there. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
