On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 10:22:24AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Colin Watson writes: > > Oh, God, *another* flavour? > > Sticking with just one flavour for all the power4 machines means we > either break the Apple G5 or leave the IBM Power4 without serial > console. Neither is acceptable.
... or patch the serial console driver in some way that doesn't break too badly on either ... Having another flavour means having a totally enormous linux-kernel-di-powerpc, using another 6.5MB or so of space on debian-installer CD images (which pushes us pretty close to the wire for businesscards) or else generating another complete image (also expensive), means extra logic in archdetect and base-installer, requires more boot configuration, uses up about 27MB more space on powerpc CD 1, etc. It's not cheap at all. Speaking as the person currently doing powerpc 2.6 support in d-i, this lot is going to be a pain to support in a full release. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
