Re: review of mrvn build tree, part 1
Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 06:28:51AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > > > network/linux-<flavour> (amiga, atari, ...)
> > > > network/initrd-<flavour>.gz
> > > > hd-media/linux-<flavour>
> > > > hd-media/initrd-<flavout>.gz
>
> > > For hd-media, the bootfloppy currently looks for a file named initrd.gz
> > > on the disk, so it would be useful if it had that name. Of course I
> > > could hardcode the flavor in, or look for initrd*. It's not clear to me
> > > what the flavour would be for i386.
>
> > Its more a <model> than <flavour>. They are incompatible in the way
> > that they contain specific support and modules for that arch.
>
> > A Atari or Mac kernel might not even get its first boot message out
> > before some Amiga hardware does something unexpected and stops the
> > kernel.
>
> > network/amiga/linux network/amiga/initrd.gz
>
> > That better?
>
> > i386 wouldn't need it but powerpc and alpha need it too.
>
> Why does alpha need this? Everything I've seen indicates that in 2.4,
> all alpha subarchs can be supported by a single kernel.
Iirc jensen is the only arch left which needs its own kernel.
Apart from that each arch needs its own milo if milo is used on that
arch.
MfG
Goswin
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