Re: kernel depends?
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 07:33:31PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * David Starner
>
> | On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 06:56:50PM +0100, Jan Martin Mathiassen wrote:
> | > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 09:23:29AM +0100, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
> | > > bin86 is used only in x86 plataform, or not?
> | > > It cant depends on kernel-source that is multi plataform.
> | >
> | > yes, that's true.
> | >
> | > the potential solution here are:
> | >
> | > 1) kernel-source-x.x.x-i386/alpha/whatever (bloaty)
> | > 2) make apt-get/dpkg support multiple platform .debs. this might be somewhat
> | > tricky to implement, but it'd be the ideal solution. then again, there are
> | > really only a few packages that *need* this, so it may not be strictly
> | > necessary.
> |
> | Or
> | 3) add an empty bin86 to every architecture.
> | 4) make binutils provide bin86 on non-i386 architectures
>
> How about having a virtual package "kernel-assembler" (since I assume
> that ppc, sparc etc needs an assembler as well), and make that package
> provided by bin86 and whatever the equivalient package is for other
> archs?
As far as I know, other architectures work fine with the assembler in binutils
(gas). bin86 is needed for assembling "real mode" x86 code. Less broken
architectures do not have this legacy requirement.
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- mdz
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