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

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

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:03:45PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:26:15PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:49:37PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:27:55PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > > > Karsten Merker <karsten@excalibur.cologne.de> writes:
> [snip] 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > How do you solve this ? I have myself, when creating the kernel package,
> > extracted all the part of the kernel build tree needed to embed the
> > initrd in the kernel and put it in a separate
> > (kernel-build-<kver>-<flavour>) package.
> > 
> > Would this work for you also, or would it be problematic ?
> 
> That might be an option, although I would like to avoid handling it
> that way. Thiemo has started writing a tool capable of adding a
> ramdisk to a "normal" kernel image. It does not yet fully work, but
> it looks quite good already and I hope that we will have it fully
> working within the next weeks.

There is already a tool doing that for sparc (piggyback it is called i
think), and i was thinking about doing such a tool for powerpc too, but
i was afraid i would have to redo all the same thing as is in the kernel
already, thus duplicating effort. Plus there are various powerpc
variants, and i am not (yet) fully familiar with all this stuff, and can
only really test on one subarch.

Friendly,

Sven Luther