Bug#256073: kernel-image-2.6.7-powerpc: kernel is too big to fit on a miboot floppy)

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:39:54PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> reassign 256073 kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.8
> thanks
> 
> Hi,

Yeah, i forgot to add control@bugs.debian.org in the CC (or better yet, in Bcc).

> Sven Luther writes:
> 
> > Jens, can you let this open
> 
> Sure.  I thought this had been fixed for good.

I had hopes, bug saddly, ...

> > until we found out why miboot doesn't like objcopy -O binary, not
> > using the miboot.image target ?
> 
> So this is really a mkvmlinuz bug?  And, since mkvmlinuz copies the
> output from the kernel Makefiles line by line, it also affects
> upstream?

I would say a miboot bug, but since this is not yet in debian, and needs OS 9
and some older codewarrior version, we need first to investigate what is going
on before we find a longterm solution. I now have a 8200/120 oldworld, so this
will help, and will be getting markos's umax box too. I am still missing a adb
keyboard though, as well as a adb->vga connector, but markos should bring such
a one to oldenbourg in 14 days.

Friendly,

Sven Luther