El sáb, 04-10-2003 a las 17:08, Sven Luther escribió: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:42:52PM +0200, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: > > El sáb, 04-10-2003 a las 16:13, Sven Luther escribió: > > [...] > > > > > > > > > > I have a question about those kernels. Are they something like x86 ones > > > > where you have all possible drivers as modules (ide, for example) and > > > > then an initrd image so you will have a really small kernel with lots of > > > > modules? > > > > > > Nope, they are a small kernel and modules which goes installed > > > in their right place, like the output of the make-kpkg kernel-images > > > mostly. I don't think what you like is possible, since there is a limit > > > on the size of the initrd for powerpc (3.3M or something such i think), > > > and anyway, i don't see much what you gain by it. > > > > The x86 initrd is less than 3.5Mb and it's compiled that way. > > But powerpc executables are bigger, and i have around 8Mo of modules > built. :-? I didn't know that ppc executables are so bigger... > > > I'm talking about a more modularized .config file so you can use > > make-kpkg as always. > > > > With that setup you have a kernel that will only load what you need and > > will let you boot from USB, FireWire, IDE or SCSI just like MacOSX > > without add all those buses inside kernel. > > I still don't understand the need for an initrd ? Once the system is > installed, you can just put the modules on the harddisk, and when > installing, it is debian-installer who handle this ... > > Mmm, i think i see, you want the ide/scsi/firewire/usb/whatever stuff > out of the kernel, so you can boot with those, even if they are needed > to mount your system. Ok, this seems like a nice idea, i guess it could > not be the same kernel as the one used for debian-installer though, as > it uses the initrd for the root image. That's it. Hmmm I know that you should not add ALL modules inside initrd for debian-installer, but What happens if you want boot from a firewire cdrom?, or a USB one? I think that you should add to debian-installer modules all boot possibilities so the user will be able always to boot her/his system. > > Anyway, we are too near the srge release for those kind of changes, but > i will look into it when i get the time. I'm not talking about sarge, I'm talking about the future, if it cannot land inside Sarge, just next release will have it :-) > > Friendly, > Cheers. > Sven Luther -- Carlos Perelló Marín Debian GNU/Linux Sid (PowerPC) Linux Registered User #121232 mailto:carlos@pemas.net || mailto:carlos@gnome.org http://carlos.pemas.net Valencia - Spain
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