Hi, Gerhard. On Aug 01 2009, Gerhard Pircher wrote: > "Rogério Brito" <rbr...@ime.usp.br> > > Yes, I miss support for that too. > > There is another powerpc platform besides the AmigaOne, which boots > with U-boot images and thus would benefit from an enhanced > kernel-package.
I was once unfamiliar with these uboot images, but one you get familiar with them, they're just another flavor of kernel images (along with vmlinux, vmlinuz, *.coff etc). > If I may ask: are you planning to get the kurobox devices officially > supported by Debian? Yes, I do. I have now 2 powerpc-based kuroboxes here: * a Kurobox HD (a simpler one, which is the one that I'm using); * a Kurobox HG (which has more memory, but I still didn't put it to run). I'm quite excited to have them work out of the box with Debian, with pure Free Software (and no non-free Software). I may be getting an arm-based kurobox in the near future (and, of course, I will be interested in getting better support for it with Linux). Currently, I've had some problems with 2.6.29/30 kernels and the Kuro HD, but the problems seem to have gone away with a 2.6.31-rc* kernel and things seem to be getting in shape. Of course, this is the very first step before getting support into Debian. > > I have already filed a bug against kernel-package, but I'm not sure > > if Manoj is working on it (or if he has already included hooks for > > that---if that's the case, I would love to know about the > > functionality). > > AFAICT the changelog doesn't mention any U-boot image support. > Which hooks are you thinking about? The ones mentioned here: http://bugs.debian.org/497738 > I took a look at the kernel-package source code, but couldn't get a > complete picture of its inner workings yet. I didn't have the patience to sit down and read the kernel-package source. So, I decided to make that very short script. It works for me, but has many, many flaws. > > If you make some improvements, please let me know and share the code. > > Thanks for the script! I think I just have to add a line, which copies > over the cuImage.* file (the script already invokes the kernel build > process with "make all", so everything should be in place). Nice that the script I provided you is of use for you. Please, if you happen to make improvements, just send me a patch. Perhaps we could even get the improvements (if any) to be included into kernel-package itself, so that we don't have to duplicate any effort... Regards, -- Rogério Brito : rbr...@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
