Re: multi-arch support for d-i (Re: Work needing projects web page)

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

* Matt Zimmerman 

| On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 12:16:44AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| 
| > That leaves a whopping eight arches which nobody has taken care of yet.
| > (BenC has said he'll do the SPARC, that leaves seven arches: mips, mipsel,
| > hppa, arm, s390, m68k, ia64.)  This leaves out Debian/*BSD and the Hurd,
| > if they are to release with Sarge.
| > 
| > It's not rocket science to figure out that we might need an installer for
| > the missing arches and getting in touch with me if you want to help out.
| 
| I would like to point out that s390 is one of the few arches where there is
| an emulator (Hercules) capable of running Linux and doing real work,
| including installer development.  It can emulate DASD storage, tape and card
| readers, and can be installed using boot-floppies just fine.  I have been
| providing woody DASD images for use with Hercules for some time now
| (http://people.debian.org/~mdz/hercules/).

Hardware is not the big issue here -- I have access to hppa, mips,
mipsel, alpha, i386, m68k, ppc at least.. can probably get arm as
well.  However, that does not mean I'll be anywhere close to being
able to get installations working well in a short time; we need
somebody who is familiar with the arches, and those people aren't too
easy to come by.  So, if you know s390, please help out since that
means I (or somebody else) will have to spend less time figuring out
how s390 works, and more time fixing other issues.

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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