Re: Summary of the Debian CD BoF at DC15
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 01:52:20PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Misc questions and discussion
> =============================
>
> Q. Multi-architecture CDs - possible?
>
> A. Yes, but it depends massively on the architectures involved. We
> already do multi-arch amd64/i386 CDs/DVDs, and we used to have
> others: amd64/i386/powerpc, alpha/hppa/ia64 (the HP
> special!). There's scope to make more like this, so long as the
> architectures don't clash in terms of how their boot support is
> configured. Sector 0 is special on lots of different architectures,
> and some of them clash in terms of what they want in various
> locations in this boot sector.
How about amd64/kfreebsd-amd64 and i386/kfreebsd-i386 images?
(Yes, I know that kFreeBSD isn't officially supported right now;
presumably they will be again at some point in the future)
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