On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 02:18:07AM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > > Remember the debian kernel is generic for all powerpc plateforms, from > > old world to prep boxes, to powerbooks to the last 32bit IBM chrps and > > the genesi pegasos machine, so there is a bit more constraints here, > > but it is assuredly doable. > > I thought that the kernel in the miboot floppies were specific just to > OldWorld machines. And you already have many flavours of it being built. > > I understand that the kernels have to be generic, but, say, including > one specific feature of a pegasos machine in a miboot floppy isn't > something that I would expect (even if it can be offloaded to a > ramdisk).
Sven, didn't you say a while ago a flavour more or less doesn't matter (when discussing ppc64 kernels)? I think a special oldworld kernel might be useful for these bootfloppies indeed. > > > -- > Rog?rio Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito > Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de > Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---end quoted text--- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]