Bug#254073: tc1 fail on hppa

[Kyle McMartin <kyle@debian.org>]

On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 01:25:01PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> base-installer has no intelligence about hppa, and it should. How would
> one go about detecting whether the 32-bit or the 64-bit kernel is
> appropriate? Is it OK to install SMP kernels regardless, or do we need
> to detect UP vs. SMP too?
> 
Hmm. It's a problem because the firmware of some machines will only
boot 64-bit kernels, some will only boot 32-bit, and some will boot
either.

The best thing to do, would be to always install 32bit by default. As
when a person tries to boot on a machine that only has 64-bit firmware,
they will have to manually edit the PALO commandline to use vmlinux64, which
will result in them having a parisc64 uname -m entry. So I'd think 
install based on the uname -m entry would work.

There's no problem, afaik, booting SMP on UP machines, so that should be
fine.

I was going to take a look at this, but I cannot seem to figure out how
to check out d-i, and the daily svn snapshot is b0rked.

I'm going to copy the parisc-linux list with this, for comments.

Cheers,
-- 
Kyle McMartin