Bug#221534: debian-installer: FTBFS mips (in a good way)
Sven Luther wrote:
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> > > 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 ?
The mipsel kernel is converted from ELF to ECOFF, so it's a bit more
complicated there.
> > 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.
It should work in its last incarnation, together with Guido's patch
for the tip22 boot memory/boot parameters (Still untested).
> 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.
I preferred more flexible disk/tftp ELF bootloaders over an in-kernel
solution. For mipsel, we can avoid the whole ECOFF related problems
this way.
Thiemo
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