Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 09:11:25AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> "Chris Tillman" <toff1@cox.net> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:14:29PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > Mmm, could you look at the /boot/config-2.4.22-powerpc file, and try to
> > > adapt it, and build a kernel which does work for you ? Even if this
> > > means adding some stuff, we have to isolate where the problem is.
> > >
> > > I will upload 2.4.22-2 as is though, as it will need to pass the NEW
> > > queue anyway, and we can fix the powerpc-small config in a future -3
> > > release.
> >
> > Aha! I got a working kernel. I guess I know more than I think I do :)
> >
> > Here is the diff for the config, from your -small config. I really
> > don't know which of these were essential, I ended up with only 59k
> > free space on the floppy. But I guess that's enough.
> >
> > Also, whoever can work on it to make it part of the d-i build: I put
> > the script to generate the floppy miBoot image (stolen from
> > boot-floppies), and the necessary pieces, plus the resulting floppy
> > image, at
> >
> > http://members.cox.net/toff1/miBoot.tgz
>
> Bookmarked. Todo list reads m68k, alpha, powerpc miboot.
powerpc builtin initrd kernels too, but i should have a go for that.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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