Bug#221534: debian-installer: FTBFS mips (in a good way)

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Karsten Merker <karsten@excalibur.cologne.de> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:27:55PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > Karsten Merker <karsten@excalibur.cologne.de> writes:
> 
> > > No, up to now at least mipsel cannot be autobuilt, there is still manual
> > > work required, so I have not yet used dpkg-buildpackage.
> > 
> > Only have mips, whats the problem on mipsel?
> 
> Lack of time and therefore code and problems with the kernel. 2.4.22 has a
> runtime problem on mipsel which is currently being investigated and the
> 2.4.19 packages require an update because they currently fail to build from
> source to due toolchain changes in current unstable.

Does 2.4.19 work with linux-kernel-di? You don't need to rebuild the
image to make the modern *modules-di.udeb. Once a set of kernel-image
and moudles udebs is there the build can be tried and fixed while
someone else tries to make a bootloader.

> As we have no bootloader capable of pre-loading the ramdisk, the ramdisk
> must be compiled in statically, which is currently done manually and with
> patched sources.

Same problem as on powerpc.

Having no hardware myself I can hardly help there. The delay by me
patching and someone else testing (probably allways a days roundtrip
because we each sleep when the other is awake) is just to much.

MfG
        Goswin