On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 15:33 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > 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. > > > > So far we've bodged this by building duplicate 64-bit kernel packages > > labelled with the 32-bit architecture. > > By "kernel packages" do you mean the `foo.udeb` which knows how to > select a kernel (I've forgotten the real name) rather than the full > `linux-image-*.deb`? I mean both udebs (kernel-image-*.udeb and *-modules-*.udeb) and the full linux-image-*.deb. We've done that for at least hppa, mips, mipsel, powerpc, and sparc. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer.
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