Re: testing beyond Intel [PATCH]
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 06:39:20PM +0100, Jeremie Koenig wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:29:59AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 03:01:11PM +0100, Jeremie Koenig wrote:
> > > I've got building oldworld floppies (patch to the build/ directory,
> > > and packages for miBoot and my hacked resource editor), and I'm just
> > > waiting for some miBoot legal stuff to be sorted out (the version I use
> > > doesn't have a license.)
> >
> > Ok, cool. Any news on the legal stuff ?
>
> miBoot's author told me that the version I packaged (the one which has
> no license), was old stuff I shouldn't bother with. However the new
> stuff needs special kernel images and doesn't work for me. I told him
> that and I'm waiting his answer.
Ok. Notice that joeyh did set a beta3 update timeline for thursday
though, so we will probably not make it.
> > Could you maybe make the patches available somewhere, so we can test
> > them ?
>
> Changes to the build/ directory:
> http://sprite.fr.eu.org/d-i-oldworld/build-patch.diff
> http://sprite.fr.eu.org/d-i-oldworld/build-newfiles.tar.gz
>
> miBoot and rsrce package:
> deb-src http://sprite.fr.eu.org/dist/debian
Ok, i will have a look.
> I don't think commiting the patch would break anything, but I hacked the
> top-level Makefile a bit, so please review my changes before doing so.
> Also, all_build won't work anymore for powerpc unless you comment out
> the added MEDIUM_SUPPORTED in config/powerpc.cfg (or something similar.)
Ok, i plan to modify this build system, so i might as well add your
patches in one go. Is that ok ? In a way that doesn't break auto-build
anyway.
> And just to be sure: please don't upload the packages yet, there's some
> crap left and still no license for miBoot.
But using it locally to build the oldworld floppy target would be ok.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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