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

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Hello,

Mmm, the following looks like a useless addition:

Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 17:13:06 +0200, a écrit :
> Index: en/boot-installer/powerpc.xml
> ===================================================================
> --- en/boot-installer/powerpc.xml	(Revision 69729)
> +++ en/boot-installer/powerpc.xml	(Arbeitskopie)
> @@ -283,3 +283,41 @@
>  
>  </para>
>    </sect2>
> +
> +  <sect2 arch="ppc64el"> <title>Booting a ppc64el machine</title>
> +<para>
> +
> +How to boot a ppc64el machine:
> +
> +</para>
> +
> +  <sect3> <title>Petitboot</title>
> +<para>
> +
> +Petitboot is a platform independent bootloader based on the Linux kexec.
> +Petitboot supports loading kernel, initrd and device tree files from 
> +any Linux mountable filesystem, plus can load files from the network 
> +using the FTP, SFTP, TFTP, NFS, HTTP and HTTPS protocols. Petitboot can
> +boot any operating system that includes kexec boot support.
> +
> +</para><para>
> +
> +Petitboot looks for bootloader configuration files on mountable devices
> +in the system, and can also be configured to use boot information from a
> +DHCP server.
> +
> +</para>
> +  </sect3>
> +
> +<!-- comment this out for now, since there is no content
> +  <sect3> <title>Boot parameters</title>
> +<para>
> +        Boot parameters for ppc64el
> +
> +FIXME: add some useful content here
> +
> +</para>
> +  </sect3>
> +-->
> +
> +  </sect2>

Since petitboot runs inside a running linux kernel, that only shifts the
problem of booting that linux kernel :)

Samuel