Status of debian-installer for the native ppc64 port
Hello,
a while ago I filed a few patches to the BTS to make d-i work on the
native 64-bit ppc64 port (http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org).
Frans Pop kindly asked me to collect all the necessary ppc64/d-i
related changes and to present a summary to make a decision about
ppc64 integration easier.
Generally, the ppc64 port does not need any intrusive changes to d-i.
Basically the necessary patches do something like 's/powerpc/powerpc ppc64'
in debian/control together with the addition of the architecture
specific configuration files at the appropriate places.
Some of the ppc64 patches have already been applied to individual d-i
udeb packages.
The following changes are still necessary to make d-i work on ppc64:
debian-installer: - 's/powerpc/powerpc ppc64/' in debian/control
- add ppc64 files in build/config and build/pkg-lists
base-installer : - add a 'kernel/ppc64.sh' script
clock-setup : - 's/powerpc/powerpc ppc64/' in debian/control
gtk+2.0-directfb: - 's/powerpc/powerpc ppc64/' in debian/control
kbd-chooser : - 's/powerpc/powerpc ppc64/' in debian/control
- add ppc64 specific CFLAGS and KEYBOARDS in Makefile
linux-kernel-di-: - add modules/ppc64 dir (copy of modules/powerpc-powerpc64)
powerpc-2.6 : - add a ppc64 linux-image line to kernel-versions
- add 'linux-image-... [ppc64]' to the Build-Depends
mkvmlinuz : - 's/powerpc/powerpc ppc64/' in debian/control
partman-base : - add a ppc64 specific alternative to definitions.sh
partman-newworld: - 's/powerpc/powerpc ppc64/' in debian/control
rootskel : - make a lib64 -> lib symlink on ppc64 (same as on amd64)
I hope that these changes are acceptable for the d-i team
and that these changes will eventually be applied to the
d-i sources.
Regards
Andreas Jochens
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