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Bug#855134: installation-guide: mips related cleanups and updates



Hi,

Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 2017-02-19 at 20:03 +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2017-02-19 at 12:41 +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > > > Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> [...]
> > > > > 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?
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > No, I don't mean ppc64el.  I looked at the published version of the
> > > installation manual so I didn't see you already removed powerpc a few
> > > hours earlier.
> > 
> > So we only need the ppc64el flavor for powerpc, right?
> [...]
> 
> We only need one flavour for _ppc64el_, yes.

I have committed the changings, so that we have now:

┌───────────────────────┬────────────────┬─────────────────────────┬──────────┐
│     Architecture      │     Debian     │     Subarchitecture     │  Flavor  │
│                       │  Designation   │                         │          │
├───────────────────────┼────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│                       │                │default x86 machines     │default   │
│Intel x86-based        │i386            ├─────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│                       │                │Xen PV domains only      │xen       │
├───────────────────────┼────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│AMD64 & Intel 64       │amd64           │                         │          │
├───────────────────────┼────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│ARM                    │armel           │Marvell Kirkwood and     │marvell   │
│                       │                │Orion                    │          │
├───────────────────────┼────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│ARM with hardware FPU  │armhf           │multiplatform            │armmp     │
├───────────────────────┼────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│64bit ARM              │arm64           │                         │          │
├───────────────────────┼────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│                       │                │MIPS Malta               │4kc-malta │
│32bit MIPS (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│
├───────────────────────┼────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│Power Systems          │ppc64el         │IBM POWER8 or newer      │          │
│                       │                │machines                 │          │
├───────────────────────┼────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│64bit IBM S/390        │s390x           │IPL from VM-reader and   │generic   │
│                       │                │DASD                     │          │
└───────────────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────────────────┴──────────┘


Holger


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