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Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed



On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 20:22 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de> wrote:
> > All that contained in attached patch for review.
> 
> I forgot to mention the arch specific variables in
> build/arch-options/ppc64el.
> There are currently set:
> 
> 
> 	# Options below are assembled into one variable 'condition'
> 	# in the build scripts
> 	fdisk="mac-fdisk.txt;cfdisk.txt"
> 	network="supports-tftp;supports-bootp;supports-nfsroot"
> 	boot="supports-floppy-boot;bootable-disk"
> 	frontend="newt;gtk"
> 	other="supports-wireless;supports-pcmcia;supports-serial-console"
> 	smp="supports-smp-sometimes"
> 	goodies="supports-lang-chooser"
> 	status="not-checked"
> 
> 
> Probably some of them are not up-to-date:
> supports-floppy-boot - I think that arch has no floppy support
> supports-wireless - is there wireless hardware available?

Current hardware is mostly datacentre type stuff where wireless
networking is not likely to be used.

In any case, none of the PowerPC architectures seem to have useful
wireless drivers in the installer (only PCMCIA wireless drivers, for
some reason).

> supports-smp-sometimes - that generation of cpu will most likely
>                          fully support smp, right?
[...]

Yes.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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