Re: O2 kernel package?

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Guido Guenther wrote:
> Biggest showstopper is to get the installer initrd embedded into the
> kernel image. One solution would be to adapt tip22. If you do so you can
> then (cross-)build a kernel-package using make-kpkg using s.th. like:
> make-kpkg --version=1 --append-to-version=-ip32 --subarch=mips64 \
> 	--arch=mips kernel_image
> which you can then tell the installer to pickup at installer build time.
> This is probably the cleanest solution but requires some hacking on
> tip22. 

initrd and isofs for arcboot would be valuable, too.

> I think the decstations use the other way around embedding the initrd
> into the kernel during kernel build time, which should be simpler to get
> started.

This has changed the last days, delo has now t-rex to create tftp
images in a way similiar to tip22, and initrd support for delo to
boot a minimal system from local media.


Thiemo