Re: debian-installer kernel policy

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@soziologie.ch> writes:

> Bastian Blank wrote:
> 
>  > Chapter 3. Packages
>  > linux-image-VERSION-udeb
>  >
>  >    This package only include the kernel image themself.
> 
> What about architectures that need different images for booting
> different subarchs like powerpc? (See thread "d-i and iBooks" on this
> list)
> 
> Should they provide one udeb for every subarch or all the images in
> one udeb?
> 
> I belive it will not be possible to create bootable floppies for more
> than one of this subarchs normally (floppies are probably too small to
> contain more than one kernel), but it may be possible to create cd's
> booting on different subarchs (I hope this is possible for powerpc!).

Alpha needs different bootloaders and last I looked 2 archs still need
a special kernel.

MfG
        Goswin