On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 02:58:34PM +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > it looks like the kernel is broken, make-kpkg uses the zImage target > > intentionally, this way you also get a .coff format image which are [i > > believe] useful on some machines. you always get a uncompressed > > kernel no matter what target which make-kpkg packs in addition to the > > .coff. > > But the debian/rules file created by make-kpkg is supposed to take a > look at the sub architecture and use that as the target. So, because I'm > building on a Power Mac, it shouldn't build the .coff file, which is of > no use in this case. can't coff format kernels be booted from OF on an Oldworld mac? > True. But make-kpkg should not try to build a .coff on the Pmac subarch. depends, i think coff images are supposed to be directly bootable by at least Oldworld OF. if that is shown to be impossible and never be possible then i would agree. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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