On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 01:25:01PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > base-installer has no intelligence about hppa, and it should. How would > one go about detecting whether the 32-bit or the 64-bit kernel is > appropriate? Is it OK to install SMP kernels regardless, or do we need > to detect UP vs. SMP too? > Hmm. It's a problem because the firmware of some machines will only boot 64-bit kernels, some will only boot 32-bit, and some will boot either.
The best thing to do, would be to always install 32bit by default. As when a person tries to boot on a machine that only has 64-bit firmware, they will have to manually edit the PALO commandline to use vmlinux64, which will result in them having a parisc64 uname -m entry. So I'd think install based on the uname -m entry would work. There's no problem, afaik, booting SMP on UP machines, so that should be fine. I was going to take a look at this, but I cannot seem to figure out how to check out d-i, and the daily svn snapshot is b0rked. I'm going to copy the parisc-linux list with this, for comments. Cheers, -- Kyle McMartin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]