On 01/27/2012 10:12 AM, Bastian Blank wrote: > Hi folks > > There is a package called mkvmlinuz in the archive. It is maintained by > the kernel team. > > mkvmlinuz is only used on the powerpc architecture. > > Does anyone know the current state of mkvmlinuz? Is it still needed? > > Bastian >
It is still used by d-i to create bootable kernel images on Pegasos machines. As kernel grew over time, mkvmlinuz currently creates too-large images that firmware has trouble loading [0], but changing compression from gz to xz fixes the problem. Milan [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=549681 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f22d112.4080...@physics.harvard.edu
