On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 12:41:47PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: > 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.
OK, that's something we can do. I'm buried in base-installer at the moment anyway, so I'll have a go at this. > There's no problem, afaik, booting SMP on UP machines, so that should be > fine. Good. That matches some other architectures. > I'm going to copy the parisc-linux list with this, for comments. Note that I don't read this list, so please be sure to copy [EMAIL PROTECTED] on replies. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
