Re: Which kernels to include on ISOs? (Was: Re: Netboot Xen images for amd64)

2009-06-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 10:42 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 04 June 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > > There are three things you need to accomplish: > > 1) include the kernel udebs for 686-bigmem on the image > > 2) include the 686-bigmem kernel-image deb (+ maybe headers packages?) > > 3) support i

Re: Which kernels to include on ISOs? (Was: Re: Netboot Xen images for amd64)

2009-06-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 04 June 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > There are three things you need to accomplish: > 1) include the kernel udebs for 686-bigmem on the image > 2) include the 686-bigmem kernel-image deb (+ maybe headers packages?) > 3) support it in build scripts on farbror (d-cd buildd) and possibly >

Re: Which kernels to include on ISOs? (Was: Re: Netboot Xen images for amd64)

2009-06-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 04 June 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 01:10 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > [...snipped a bunch of good points which I won't contest...] :-) > > But there is one image that might exactly fit the bill: the > > i386/amd64/ppc multi-arch netinst CD. Current size (Lenny):

Re: Which kernels to include on ISOs? (Was: Re: Netboot Xen images for amd64)

2009-06-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 01:10 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: [...snipped a bunch of good points which I won't contest...] > Personally I would say that full CD and DVD are not even very interesting > for Xen installs: their content is desktop oriented, so why download a > lot of shite you're not going t

Re: Which kernels to include on ISOs? (Was: Re: Netboot Xen images for amd64)

2009-06-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 22 May 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 12:49 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > Also note that adding the 686-bigmem kernel to CD images still has a > > rather high impact (as you'd need to add both the kernel udeb _and_ > > the regular kernel-image deb), which is rather undesi

Which kernels to include on ISOs? (Was: Re: Netboot Xen images for amd64)

2009-05-21 Thread Ian Campbell
[adding debian-cd. The context is trying to figure out how to support installation from CD/DVD into a Xen guest -- this requires a PAE (==686-bigmem) kernel for 32 bit to run under Xen, both for the installer itself and the final target kernel, hence the is a need to either fit a 686-bigmem-di udeb

Re: Netboot Xen images for amd64

2009-05-10 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 02:11 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > I see this was committed, but AFAICT without any comment in the > debian/changelog. Please document changes properly! Oops, sorry. $PWD is usually installer/build when I commit and the changelog is a level back in ../debian so I always forget

Re: Netboot Xen images for amd64

2009-05-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 09:45 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > > Since the Xen modules will be included in the next > > linux-kernel-di-amd64-2.6 upload I'd like to also add a netboot-xen > > target to the build. > > > > What are peoples feelings on this pa

Re: Netboot Xen images for amd64

2009-05-06 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 09:45 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > Hi all, > > Since the Xen modules will be included in the next > linux-kernel-di-amd64-2.6 upload I'd like to also add a netboot-xen > target to the build. This is slightly unusual since, unlike i386, the > standard kernel used on amd64 is X

Re: Netboot Xen images for amd64

2009-05-06 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 12:49 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 18 April 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: > > I think the ability to symlink the kernel or initrd will also be useful > > to me when I start to consider cdrom-xen variants for both i386 and > > amd64. i386 cannot share the kernel (needs 686

Re: Netboot Xen images for amd64

2009-04-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 18 April 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: > I think the ability to symlink the kernel or initrd will also be useful > to me when I start to consider cdrom-xen variants for both i386 and > amd64. i386 cannot share the kernel (needs 686-bigmem variant) but can > share the initrd with some small

Netboot Xen images for amd64

2009-04-18 Thread Ian Campbell
Hi all, Since the Xen modules will be included in the next linux-kernel-di-amd64-2.6 upload I'd like to also add a netboot-xen target to the build. This is slightly unusual since, unlike i386, the standard kernel used on amd64 is Xen capable and therefore the regular images work just fine. However