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Re: linux-2.6.21 images for m68k



On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:09:55PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 02:36:50PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:53:34PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I finally managed to build 2.6.21 for m68k, images are available for testing
> > > from here:
> > > 
> > > http://people.debian.org/~cts/linux-m68k/
> > 
> > The mac version installs vmlinux, while expecting vmlinuz. I worked
> > around it with a symlink. Hopefully I can try booting it tonight.
> 
> Oh, that is one of the undocumented changes where I took a guess for what to
> do with m68k. But the kernel is uncompressed I think? Do we want compressed
> or uncompressed vmlinux files for m68k? Amiboot has problems with large
> compressed kernels, didn't we hear about similar problems for atari and/or
> mac recently?

I don't recall having any problems with compressed kernels on mac.

> I think I could change that to use vmlinuz or vmlinux.gz easily, but I am
> not sure how to change the postinst scripts to look for a different name.

Right, the script was looking for the compressed image.

> Thanks for finding this, unfortunately this is too late for 2.6.21-1.

Such is life. ;)

Thanks,

Stephen

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Stephen R. Marenka     If life's not fun, you're not doing it right!
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