Hi, Ross Vumbaca writes:
> >>Is the AmigaONE a subarch, or it's own flavor? > > Please remind me, what processor does the thing have and how do > > you boot it? Thanks for the info. To answer the original question: In the current packaging scheme of the Debian kernels, flavours roughly correspond to processor families and subarchs to booting methods. The AmigaONE falls in four different flavour/subarch combinations. The processors are covered by the powerpc and power4 flavours, so that's no problem. If I understand your description correctly, both the direct boot from uboot and the a1boot boot loader require uboot kernel images. Support for creating those could easily be added to the mkvmlinuz package, which uses code from the kernel Makefiles to create bootable compressed kernel images for other subarchs from the raw uncompressed ELF file. However, it only works out of the box for 2.6 kernels right now, so if you want to use that you should really forward port your patches. And submit them upstream as well. If you insist on using 2.4, this requires the creation of a separate kernel-image-<version>-<flavour>-uboot package containing the uboot kernel image for that kernel version and flavour. Given that 2.4 support is slowly phasing out, this may not be worth the effort. As far as the a1boot boot loader is concerned, you could either package it separately and then find a sponsor to upload it to Debian, or add it to the existing amiga-fdisk package through a patch. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!
