Re: powerpc kernel-image udebs
On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 12:26:51AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> hi
>
> I'm currently trying to help porting the new debian-installer to
> powerpc. In this process I am looking at the installer kernel-image,
> which comes from kernel-image-2.4.20-powerpc-udeb, which is built from
> kernel-patch-2.4.20-powerpc.
> 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.
> I'm writing to you to ask you how to best organize these packages. For
> now normal kernel-images and udeb kernel-images share the same source
> package on powerpc. But on i386 there is a special
> kernel-image-2.4.20-1-i386-udeb source package for the udebs. Probably
> it would be easier to maintain two source packages. But it's up to you,
> to decide this.I'm willing to submit patches to you for either solution.
They should stay in the same package, since we have to have a package
for the patch anyway, I think.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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