On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 01:38:03PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > According to my somewhat limited research, an interface to the SRM would > > > be available if CONFIG_SRM_ENV was set to "y" during kernel build. > > > Unfortunately, this is not the default :-( > > OK, this seems to be fixed now (= boot.img as of Aug 4, 5423316 bytes), > > I can see /proc/srm_environment while the base installation is going on. > There have been no changes recently to the SRM support in the alpha > kernels; I don't know why it failed before for you, but it wasn't due to > missing kernel support.
Oops, so perhaps I only looked at the installed kernel before (which does not have SRM support enabled) ... > There's no modification visible because no modification is being done. > No code has been written to attempt to change the SRM boot variables > from debian-installer; and you shouldn't expect this to be done for > sarge. While having the installer ensure you end up back in Debian > after a reboot sounds like a good idea, the task of mapping Unix devices > to SRM names is really quite difficult, and not something to be > attempted this soon before a release. OK, I accept this. Feel free to lower the priority of this bug report... Cheers, Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
