On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 15:19 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 10:29 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 01:29 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > udpkg and the various package retrievers in d-i don't support > > > multi- > > > arch. Until they do there's probably little point in adding that > > > information to udebs. > > > > It's also not terribly clear what the utility of a multiarchified > > installer initramfs would actually be. > > In any case where the installed system will have a 32-bit primary > architecture and 64-bit kernel, either the installer should be multi- > arch or it will need to support cross-install. Actually that wouldn't be needed in every case, but imagine we wanted to support installation of arm64ilp32 on A64-only hardware... Ben. > So far we've bodged this by building duplicate 64-bit kernel packages > labelled with the 32-bit architecture. > > Ben. > -- Ben Hutchings Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer.
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