Re: Recent ITPs...
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 11:45:25AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 06:34:16PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > The resulting images, if the default configuration is used, contain a
> > > very complete live rescue filesystem as well as enough to use
> > > cdebootstrap to install the base system of all three current i386 trees
> > > and amd64 sid.
> >
> > Sounds very nice, i wonder if a powerpc version of this would be easily
> > possible, mmm, ...
>
> Yes, though it would have to be a separate ISO image. amd64 gets by
> because a 64-bit amd64 kernel can still use a 32-bit userland.
Naturally, Also powerpc binaries are a bit bigger than x86 ones.
> Actually, I'm working on the code now to make it more portable to other
> archs. All that it really needs is a module mechanism for bootloaders
> and a few updates to the config file format (to permit certain packages
> to be installed only for certain archs).
Do you have a (arch i suppose) repository of it available somewhere,
where i could look at it and help out ?
> I'll probably be doing Alpha next, and possibly PowerPC after that.
> That will exhaust the archs I have access to :-)
I would be glad to help with the powerpc part.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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