On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 10:16:15AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Hello, > > I am lmost ready to generate kernel-image packages for the various > different subarches, but i have still a few questions which needs to be > solved. > > 1) Well, doing this without changes to make-kpkg would mean have as > many copies of the modules as there is kernel-image packages. Since > each of them take around 8-10Mo, this would mean lot of bloat. Is this > ok, or should i make a modules-image package and have the > kernel-images depend on it. (this is more of a question to the about > to be created debian-linux-kernel list or something, i think). > > 2) i have tried building a ibmchrp package, and it fails in highmem.c. > That has made me ask question about the config files. Is it ok to > build all 5 subarches (old-pmac, new-pmac, prep, chrp & chrp-rs6k) > from the same set of config files, or will we need something > particular for some of the non-pmac ? As i am not that familiar with > the rs6k hardware, i would like to know opinion of people knowing > about them. > > So, if we go ahead with this, we will again support all of the powerpc > subarches, and not only the powermacs as it is done currently. Still > apus would use its own kernel (which does not build udebs, Michel could > you look into it if we want to have debian-installer support for apus), > and mbx, altough i am not sure we support this one.
And by the way, do i need to build the smp kernels for all subarches. I am sure there are chrp-rs6k and new-pmac SMP boxes, but what about chrp, prep and old-pmac ? I guess that there are old-pmac SMP boxes, but don't know about the others. Friendly, Sven Luther
