Re: [...] smaller powerpc kernels or oldworld/miboot flavour.
Hi,
Christoph Hellwig writes:
> Fine with me. I'll also commit the modular swim3 and anslcd patches
> ASAP which should probably go into -4.
-4 is already in unstable, with the G4 errata fix.
> > Anyway, i believe that it is needed to take action now, and build
> > a new powerpc-oldworld-pmac config which is especially suited to
> > building miboot floppies for the oldworld pmac debian-installer,
> > for those who don't have mac os 9 anymore and still want to
> > install debian on their pmac hardware.
There is a 2.4 based miBoot installer, so no need to rush anything.
> Do we have a number on how many people actually did that with woody?
No, but we have a number on how many people tested the above-mentioned
2.4 based miBoot installer: Zero.
> How much smaller do you need the kernel image for that to work?
In 2.6.7-4, we're at:
$ gzip --best < vmlinux-2.6.7-powerpc | wc -c
1581123
Regards, Jens.
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