Re: d-i - subarchitecture stuff

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:02:47AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 06:42:28PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:21:56PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > Ok, let's do it that way then. 
> > > 
> > > Bastian, how will you handle that ? Will libdi be able to understand
> > > that powerpc_powermac is both of powerpc_powermac_oldworld and
> > > powerpc_powermac_newworld, or something similar ? 
> > 
> > that it much more difficult then just make a string compare over the
> > complete string.
> > also this will make it impossible to specify powerpc_chrp without moving
> > in powerpc_chrp_rs6k.
> 
> So, if we go for the shorted case, i would choose :
> 
> oldpmac, newpmac, prep, chrp, pegasos, chrp-rs6k (or rs6k ?) and apus.

or pmac, oldpmac, prep, chrp, pegasos, rs6k and apus for that matter.

I have asked a rs6k owner to send us his /proc/cpuinfo file.

Friendly,

Sven Luther