Re: debian boot CDs & G5

[Jens Schmalzing <j.s@lmu.de>]

Hi,

Colin Watson writes:

> ... or patch the serial console driver in some way that doesn't
> break too badly on either ...

We tried this, but our fixes didn't work.  And there have been
discussions among the kernel hackers recently, with no substantial
outcome.

> 27MB more space on powerpc CD 1,

AFAICS, the SMP kernels run fine on UP machines.  There have been
claims that this comes at a performance hit, if someone convinces me
otherwise, we could drop all UP flavours and rename the SMP flavours,
omitting the -smp in the name.  This would save more than 50MB.

> It's not cheap at all.

As it stands, it's the price to pay for supporting the major flagships
of the PowerPC architecture out of the box.

Regards, Jens.

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