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Re: powerpc kernel-image udebs



Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@soziologie.ch> wrote:
>
> Currently both the udeb and the normal non-smp kernel-image share the
> same kernel-config. I think we have to change that, because the
> installer kernel needs to be as small as possible and requires some
> special options like devfs-automounting on boot.

No you don't, devfs-automounting can be easily achieved with a boot parameter
or a script on the initrd.  It is not enabled on i386 anyway.

> package on powerpc. But on i386 there is a special
> kernel-image-2.4.20-1-i386-udeb source package for the udebs. Probably

All that does is repack the contents of the normal kernel-image-2.4.20-1-386
package.
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