On Sun, 2014-05-25 at 18:52 -0300, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote: [...] > >> +## > >> +## file: drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/Kconfig > >> +## > >> +#. qemu-kvm with kernel only (no initrd). > >> +CONFIG_IBMVETH=y > > > > qemu supports initrd. > > Oh, sure. I was too lazy to write a better comment, but the reason > here is that specified in the patch header: just a convenience not > to generate an initrd when we don't have a system yet (say, > debootstrap --second-stage), and then booting it without using an > initrd. > > That means, not to have to extract the deb package, and picking the > ibmvscsi, ibmveth, blk_dev_sd, ext4_fs modules, plus shell, mount, > insmod, other binaries; then creating the init script). > > Really, just a convenience. We can ship/tell people how to create > a simple initrd for debootstrapping from other architectures. > The thing with ppc64el is that it's usually not available for most > people to start on, so that debootstrap --second-stage (for running > in qemu-kvm, at least) is quite a common scenario nowadays. [...] Can you not run the second stage using qemu-ppc64le-static (or whatever it's called)? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings.
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