Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 14:33, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 02:15:20PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 18:43, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 08:48:28AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Thanks, Sven. I gzipped vmlinus-2.4.22-powerpc-pmac, and it
> > > > is 1675729 in size, thus cannot fit on a 1.44 floppy. Is there
> > >
> > > Yep, i feared thus, i will maybe make a new configuration run, but this
> > > would mean that the modules udeb are not compatible. Maybe removing more
> > > stuff from the kernel and putting it in a initrd as modules would be a
> > > solution, i hear there is lot of place on the debian-installer image,
> > > but this may only be on x86, not sure thus.
> > If in any way possible, it would be better not to have two different
> > kernels for oldworld and newworld. I think someone with some knowledge
> > about what hardware exists for mac hardware should go over all
> > configuration options and tell which parts that are actually compiled
> > into the kernel aren't of any use. (Chris could you do that?)
> > Sven: would it be possible to make a more modularized kernel? AFAIK ide
> > and usb (and scsi?) are not modules. The standard i386 kernel is far
> > more modularized and uses an initrd also for "normal" booting. This
> > could be the way to go.
>
> Well, sure it could be possible, but you have to choose the options,
> i cannot really do it, since i don't have pmac hardware. Keep in mind
> that this is the same kernel which is used for prep/chrp/pegasos/rs6k
> also though.
Oh, then I missunderstood you. I thought that the kernel is built
seperatly for every subarch.
>
> Now, at Oldenburg someone asked me to have firewire builtin, and not as
> modules, so we have to choose which way we want to go.
I would propose to modularize as much as possible. But as I never built
a fully modularized kernel I don't know if there are any drawbacks.
Probably we should discuss this on debian-powerpc.
>
> What are the steps needed to build an initrd from the kernel sources, do
> someone have an idea ? Does kernel-package do it, or do we in some way
> create a tarball with the modules in it, that will be copied over to the
> debian-installer to create the initrd ?
No, we need udebs for every module that has to go into the installer
root.
For arches which need the initrd built into the kernel it works the
other way around. First you build the initrd and the you compile the
kernel with this initrd embedded.
gaudenz
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