On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:52:58PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:16:52AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Notice that when i asked about this on debian-powerpc, i was told that > > the 2.4 kernel could be made to fit on 1.44 floppy disks. In fact, if i > > look at the kernel-image-2.4.21 packages, i find that : > > > > - /boot/vmlinux.coff-2.4.21-powerpc is of size : 1299802 > > > > - the .coff kernels don't have a udeb at all. > > a .coff kernel won't autoboot, the user would have to manually get > into OpenFirmware and boot it explicity.
Ok, the .coff is for manual installation using the OF. > the current miboot boot floppies require the vmlinux binary, which may > be gzipped. Mmm, i am lost here, i own no powermac hardware of any kind (but would gladly accept donation of such to test the debian powerpc kernels on), and i thought that, until yaboot2 is working, you use yaboot on newworld powermacs, which don't support compressed kernels. I thought oldpmac hardware used quik, but there is also bootx and now miboot. So, when using quick, what is kernel that is needed ? If i look at the kernel's arch/ppc/boot/images, i get : 1602678 miboot.image 2291148 vmlinux.coff 2360440 vmlinux.elf-pmac 1602433 vmlinux.gz 2360304 zImage.chrp 2360304 zImage.chrp-rs6k 12 zImage.pmac -> vmlinux.coff 1655582 zImage.prep (Notice, these are not the kernel image, but my own build tree, so the sizes are bigger). So, i thought we had kernels for chrp, prep and chrp-rs6k, the uncompressed elf-pmac for yaboot, and the .coff image. This leaves the miboot.image and the vmlinux.gz i don't know anything about. > also .coff kernels don't even work until 2.4.23 (maybe). :(( > > This comes together with a general effort i am doing to get all powerpc > > subarches supported by the powerpc kernel, since right now, only newpmac > > is supported in the udeb, and only oldpmac and newpmac are supported in > > the deb. > > > > Notice also that i asked questions about this on the debian-powerpc > > mailing list, and _nobody_ replied, so i guess nobody really cares, and > > thus has the right to make critics here. > > yup, nobody cares about doing installer stuff. i myself have zero > desire to do that again, i fixed woody for you folks, now its somebody > elses turn. No oldpmac user does, that is, we have suppport for newworld, probably both chrp as well as prep, and pegasos. So, most probably d-i for sarge will support those arches or subarches for people who care about it. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
