Re: Planned packages for sarge
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> wrote:
> The more hairy part would be to start porting to other arches.
> The worst code in boot-floppies is probably the one for
> creating the bootable image on each architecture
> (hello kernel.sh?), and d-i probably can't stay immune
> from that :P
As self-appointed "visionary of booting methods of debian-installer",
I'd like to explain my take on that. b-f code (and I had to read it,
so I know what I'm talking about) is a horrible mess of ifdefs. My design
decision when porting that code to d-i was to get rid of the ifdefs, and
just write a module for each platform. The ifdefs are so different that
it doesn't really cause code duplication, and gives us the winnage that
if there is a bug on a certain platform *we can easily read that code
path* and try to figure out what went wrong. Hence, d-i will hopefully
not recreate the mess that b-f had to go through.
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> regards,
> junichi
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