Re: Debian on SGI Altix IA-64

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

Christian Perrier wrote:
> > If anybody is interested, you can find the CD and a text describing what
> > we did to make it work at:
> > 
> > http://rad.bioinfo.ulaval.ca/hardware/altixia64/
> 
> 
> I tried to read the document quickly, but it's not really easy to dig
> out which changes would be needed.
> 
> It seems that you added some modules. Are these modules
> DFSG-compliant?
> 
> If they aren't, I'm afraid that it will be hard to have them on the
> official Debian CD.
> 
> If they are.....I'm afraid it is very late now to add them to the
> Debian stock kernel.

At least the IOC4 is already a module of the Debian ia64 kernels.
I figure it isn't known to kernel-wedge as a valid boot device, so
it's absent in d-i.


Thiemo