Re: debian-installer kernel policy

[Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@soziologie.ch>]

Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Karsten Merker <karsten@excalibur.cologne.de> writes:
>
>
> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 05:06:10PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> >
> > > Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@soziologie.ch> writes:
> >
> > [SNIP]
> >
> > > > What about architectures that need different images for booting
> > > > different subarchs like powerpc? (See thread "d-i and iBooks" on this
> > > > list)
> >
> > [SNIP] 
> >
> > > Alpha needs different bootloaders and last I looked 2 archs still need
> > > a special kernel.
> >
> > Mipsel also needs different kernels for different subarches.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Karsten
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> I think that concludes it.
>
> We need
> kernel-version-subarch and
> modules-version-subarcharch-modules_flavour

Do the subarches of alpha an d mipsel need different modules? AFAIK on 
powerpc only the kernel-image is different because the subarches need 
different kernel-loaders (code to load the kernel into memory and start 
it).
If we only need different kernel images and can use the same modules, I 
would rather conclude that they should stay in the same udeb because the 
kernel-image from this udeb is copied to the boot media anyway. 
Kernel-image udebs are never installed on a system.

gaudenz