Bug#385175: debian-installer: [powerpc] let's move powerpc d-i into the initramfs era ...
tags 385175 pending
thanks
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 05:38:09PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> Well, i believe there is no reason for any of the 2.6 arches to still use
> cramfs, not sure though. In any case, powerpc can handle initramfs just fine
> (and indeed, it is used by initramfs-tools for the real ramdisk), and i
> believe ubuntu also produces initramfs for their installer incarnation on
> powerpc.
>
> So, the attached patch uses an initramfs for all powerpc subarches. Tested on
> IBM pSeries p505.
Good point; I'd entirely forgotten that we were still using cramfs.
Applied, thanks.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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