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Re: debian-installer, s390



[Bastian Blank]
> hi folks
> 
> i just begin to port debian-installer to s390 and find some problems:

Cool. :-)

> build/pkg-list/net/common defines some packages, which aren't really
> applicable with the s390 kernel like
> nic-modules-${kernel:Version}-${kernel:Flavour}-udeb (their are only
> 4 network modules available)

Why is this a problem.  Why not make one such package to reduce the
difference between s390 and the other platforms.

> als it includes ethdetect which seems to use pci which isn't
> available

I believe the correct aproach is to add support for whatever s390 is
using instead of pci, to ethdetect.  I guess that involves fixing
discover first.  What kind of bus is s390 using?



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