Re: d-i and iBooks
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 08:06:56PM +0200, Thorsten Sauter wrote:
> * Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> [2003-08-01 08:40]:
> | Ok, and you are using the generated udeb, right ? The udeb which right
> | now seems to contain only the vmlinux used for new pmacs and yaboot,
> | but not either the vmlinux.coff used on oldworld pmacs nor the vmlinuz
> | used on chrp, or whatever they use for other powerpc subarches.
>
> yes, thats correct. It only contains one vmlinux image. The image is now
> working on my ibook. But I'm not sure, if it will also work on other
> subarchs (prep, chrp, ...)
It will most probably not, as chrp at least need images in another
format than vmlinux.
> | What would be the correct way of handling this ? Use a udeb with all the
> | sort of kernels in it, a udeb per kernel type or maybe a kind of generic
> | udeb, which contains the kernel in a generic form, and the necessary
> | logic to generate either of the kernels on unpacking.
>
> I guess thats the best solution to put all needed images in one udeb.
> The makefile can copy all images into different directories on the
> cdrom-image.
Ok, i will see if i can do that, altough the real problem is to build
more than just the vmlinux and vmlinux.coff images. I guess we could get
the images directly out of the arch/ppc/boot/images :
$ ls -l
total 12032
-r--r--r-- 1 luther luther 286 2003-06-15 17:04 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 luther luther 1375478 2003-07-31 12:14 miboot.image
-rwxr-xr-x 1 luther luther 2016602 2003-07-31 12:14 vmlinux.coff
-rwxr-xr-x 1 luther luther 2085882 2003-07-31 12:14 vmlinux.elf-pmac
-rwxr-xr-x 1 luther luther 1375236 2003-07-31 12:14 vmlinux.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 luther luther 2085746 2003-07-31 12:14 zImage.chrp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 luther luther 2085746 2003-07-31 12:14 zImage.chrp-rs6k
lrwxrwxrwx 1 luther luther 12 2003-07-31 12:14 zImage.pmac -> vmlinux.coff
-rwxr-xr-x 1 luther luther 1430252 2003-07-31 12:14 zImage.prep
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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