Re: linux-kernel-di and powerpc-small

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

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 12:13:30PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 06:58:49PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > at all to do with the architecture we're on, and everything to do with
> > > the flavor of kernel that was booted -- which is exposed through uname,
> > > which is already handled through kernel-installer.
> 
> > And that it can easily be used by kernel-installer to choose the right
> > kind of flavor for your subarch/whatever. In this case, subarch could be
> > the processor kind used.
> 
> > archdetect does some parsing of /proc/cpuinfo, and thus would be the
> > right place to do some processing of the /proc/cpuinfo or even uname
> > output, and then use the result easily afterward, either because it
> > would be filled in in some place in the debconf database, or because you
> > use it directly.
> 
> > And since you were speakind of parsing the output of uname, it is only
> > natural that you would look at archdetect which is the right tool for
> > doing this. But then, if you like repeating unecessary work, you are
> > welcome.
> 
> I'm not repeating unnecessary work: kernel-installer already has a
> general interface for handling uname.  Are you planning to move all of
> this into archdetect?

Well, why not ? It is already done that way on powerpc, and this means
that you can reuse this component elsewhere. Naturally this might not be
the right solution for this, but you should at least consider it, don't
you think ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther