Bug#855134: installation-guide: mips related cleanups and updates
Hi,
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> There seems to have been some confusion about whether this table lists
> kernel or installer flavours. As this is the installation manual, I
> think it makes sense to document the latter.
>
> Not only is there no 5kc-malta installer flavour for mips or mipsel,
Ok, deleted in my workingcopy.
> there is also no armmp-lpae flavour of the installer for armel. Please
> delete that as well.
Hmm, the table has armmp-lpae only for armhf, not for armel. Do you want me
to remove that one for armhf?
>
> Also, the versatile flavour for armel was dropped after we accidentally
> broke the kernel configuration and yet received no bug reports about
> it. Please delete that as well.
Ok, deleted.
> Finally, two of the architectures are missing documentation of their
> installer flavours:
>
> - For i386 there are default and xen installer flavours. The xen
That would mean, we have to add 2 "flavor" entries for i386?
How would we name them? Some proposal below in the table ...
The "default" entries are not optimal ...
> installer flavour is needed for Xen PV domains only.
> - For powerpc there are powerpc and powerpc64 installer flavours.
> I believe powerpc64 is needed on all systems with 64-bit
> OpenFirmware.
That means the same? Add to flavors for ppc64el? How to name them?
I am confused here, powerpc is no release arch anymore, right?
Proposal table:
┌────────────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────────────────────┬──────────┐
│ Architecture │ Debian │ Subarchitecture │ Flavor │
│ │ Designation │ │ │
├────────────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│ │ │default │default │
│Intel x86-based │i386 ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│ │ │Xen PV domains │xen │
├────────────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│AMD64 & Intel 64 │amd64 │ │ │
├────────────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│ARM │armel │Marvell Kirkwood and Orion │marvell │
├────────────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│ │ │multiplatform │armmp │
│ARM with hardware │armhf ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│FPU │ │multiplatform for LPAE-capable│armmp-lpae│
│ │ │systems │ │
├────────────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│64bit ARM │arm64 │ │ │
├────────────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│32bit MIPS │ │MIPS Malta │4kc-malta │
│(big-endian) │mips ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│ │ │Cavium Octeon │octeon │
├────────────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│ │ │MIPS Malta │5kc-malta │
│64bit MIPS │ ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│(little-endian) │mips64el │Cavium Octeon │octeon │
│ │ ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│ │ │Loongson 3 │loongson-3│
├────────────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│ │ │MIPS Malta │4kc-malta │
│32bit MIPS │ ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│(little-endian) │mipsel │Cavium Octeon │octeon │
│ │ ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│ │ │Loongson 3 │loongson-3│
├────────────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│ │ │IBM POWER8 or newer machines │powerpc64 │
│Power Systems │ppc64el ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│ │ │Powerpc ??? │powerpc │
├────────────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│64bit IBM S/390 │s390x │IPL from VM-reader and DASD │generic │
└────────────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────┘
Thanks
Holger
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