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Re: creating kernel udebs from kernel-source



On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:36:30AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:21:33AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > other way. This still doesn't mean that it is d-i task to workaround this
> > > kind of problems introducing extra sets of udebs
> 
> > Well, how do you install on that box then, provided we can't fix the above
> > bug, if it is a bug ? 
> 
> > Me thinking that maybe we should use -smp variants for the power3 and power4
> > d-i kernels.
> 
> Why not (post-sarge)?  The ia64 d-i kernels are already based on an smp
> flavor.

Well, given the limited amount of testing we got on power3, i think it would
be safe to do this pre-sarge, since a majority of installs i had direct access
to worked with the -smp kernel and not with the -up one (but then it was 1 of
1, i think, and current d-i doesn'y work anyway on leighbb's power3 machine).

post-sarge, we will drop 32bit power3 and power4/g5 kernels anyway in favor of
64bit iseries-legacy, generic and generic-power4 kernels anyway.

I tried to by myself a power3 chrp box, but at >750 Euro, it was well over my
budget for this kind of things.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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