Re: d-i and iBooks
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 08:01:18PM +0200, Thorsten Sauter wrote:
>
> Hi Sven,
>
> * Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> [2003-07-31 12:12]:
> | BTW, do you use (or not) the kernels i produce with the
> | kernel-patch-2.4.21-powerpc package ? I have an (older from before i
> | became maintainer of the packages) bug report that it results in too big
> | a kernel udeb or something such (Bug#197460 that is).
>
> no. I'm using either the default kernel from sid (kernel-image-2.4) or
> my own rsynced benh kernel. (currently 2.4.21-benh2)
Ok, and you are using the generated udeb, right ? The udeb which right
now seems to contain only the vmlinux used for new pmacs and yaboot,
but not either the vmlinux.coff used on oldworld pmacs nor the vmlinuz
used on chrp, or whatever they use for other powerpc subarches.
What would be the correct way of handling this ? Use a udeb with all the
sort of kernels in it, a udeb per kernel type or maybe a kind of generic
udeb, which contains the kernel in a generic form, and the necessary
logic to generate either of the kernels on unpacking.
And what about bugreport #197460, is the 3528068 big vmlinux still too
big for our usage, or is it ok and the bugreport can be closed ?
BTW, i don't really have pmac hardware, so i am not all that familiar
with what is needed to boot the pmac kernels.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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