On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:00:10AM +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > Il mer, 2004-04-21 alle 23:08, Per Olofsson ha scritto: > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 22:34 +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > > > I just found that initrd exists also for powerpc, but I think that no > > > debian package provides and initrd kernel for powerpc. > > I think the kernel packages provide the initrd as well. That's what > > they do on i386, at least. > This is different for powerpc. Maybe Sven Luther should change the > kernel he upload? > ~$ cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac.list > /. > /boot > /boot/config-2.4.25-powerpc > /boot/vmlinux-2.4.25-powerpc > /boot/vmlinux.coff-2.4.25-powerpc > /boot/patches-2.4.25-powerpc > /boot/System.map-2.4.25-powerpc > /usr > /usr/share > /usr/share/doc > /usr/share/doc/kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac > /usr/share/doc/kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac/Changes.gz > /usr/share/doc/kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac/copyright > /usr/share/doc/kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac/changelog.gz > /usr/share/doc/kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac/QuikDefault.gz > /usr/share/doc/kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac/Buildinfo > /usr/share/doc/kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac/debian.README.gz > /usr/share/doc/kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac/conf.vars.gz > /usr/share/doc/kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac/buildinfo.gz > /usr/share/doc/kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac/README.Debian.1st.gz > /usr/share/doc/kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac/changelog.Debian.gz > ~$ Er, kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac depends on kernel-modules-2.4.25-powerpc, which contains all of these modules; and the initrd is not included in the kernel package in any case -- it's built at package install time. It would be inordinately silly to go to all the trouble of shipping a kernel that's built for initrd support, and then only ship a static initrd with fixed contents! -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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