Re: 2.2 powerpc kernels in unstable ???
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:15:28PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:49:01AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:05:21AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> > > On Aug 25 2003, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > Sarge will ship with debian-installer, which i doubt will fit on a
> > > > floppy disk on powerpc. Not sure though.
> > >
> > > Hummm, that's not good news. At least for me (I haven't been able to
> > > keep up the messages). And the 2.2 kernels don't enable my oldworld to
> > > see the second PCI bus, which is quite a limitation compared to the 2.4
> > > kernels.
> >
> > After discussion with ben, it seems that it may be possible to bring the
> > 2.4 kernel down to floppy size. I don't have pmac hardware, and even
> > less oldworld hardware, so i am maybe not the right person for it, but
> > could you maybe try to build a .config that is acceptable, and which
> > brings the kernel down to floppy size again ? I can then try to generate
> > a new kernel-image for it. I will be splitting more kernel-image
> > packages nextly anyway (for chrp, prep and pmac, i don't know if there
> > are SMP chrp and preps though).
>
> Why? One of the best things about 2.4 was that we didn't need separate
> kernel-image packages for prep chrp and pmac; everything necessary was
> OK as a module.
The only problem is that the actual kernel images where for pmac only. I
for example cannot boot the resulting files, and need the zImage.chrp.
I may miss something though.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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