On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:55:40PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > BOOTX_TEXT is a misnomor though, it really doesn't have much to do > > with BootX at all. its also not required for either BootX or > > non-BootX booting. > > > Why do we need BOOTX_TEXT in the debian kernel? Is the installer using the > debugger? Are these early messages also reported do klogd? If so, I can only > see six lines that show up before I get a display on my mac. System.map ... > symbols ... device tree ... How does this really help? i don't think debian kernels need BOOTX_TEXT. Dan would you consider disabling this for potato r3's kernels? > Does the maintainer use xmon to test anything before it is released? If so, I > could understand him wanting to use the exact kernel he had his debugger on... not that i know of, ask Dan. > This is obviously creating problems. What's the big reason to have this > enabled? > > Mike > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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