Bug#254073: tc1 fail on hppa
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 12:41:47PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> 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.
OK, that's something we can do. I'm buried in base-installer at the
moment anyway, so I'll have a go at this.
> There's no problem, afaik, booting SMP on UP machines, so that should be
> fine.
Good. That matches some other architectures.
> I'm going to copy the parisc-linux list with this, for comments.
Note that I don't read this list, so please be sure to copy
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Thanks,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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