First thing, I don't want to break m68k building, so any changes might well not make sarge. That said ....
Currently m68k generates 14 initrd's arranged by subarch, except for
cdrom and cdrom22 (see [0]).
I pretty much like the arrangement, everybody shares cdrom images and
you look in your subarch's directory for everything else (and thus
ignore everyone else's junk).
But 14 initrd's take a while to build on m68k hardware and I plan to add
more. It seems that most of the build time comes from building the
trees.
If we instead look at how many separate trees are actually needed, there
would be five. All the 2.2 kernel stuff looks just like 2.4 stuff in the
tree except for /lib/modules (which turns out to be minimal). The
images only differ in actual image generation (same for floppy). I could
now add q40 without building a new initrd, for instance.
cdrom - all subarchs
cdrom22 - all subarchs, 2.2 kernel
hd-media - amiga, atari (not currently built)
hd-media22 - mac
nativehd - amiga, atari
nativehd22 - mac (atari?)
floppy
atari
bvme6000
mvme147
mvme16x
netboot - all vme
The only cost in size is /lib/modules and keymaps. The build system
would also have to change to accommodate building multiple initrds out
of one tree (how to do change the makefile to do that doesn't seem
obvious to me).
So do I go with the an image-based layout? I like the way it looks,
but users will have to be in different directories to download the
pieces. What other problems am I getting into?
cdrom/
bvme6000-boot.img.gz
initrd.gz
initrd22.gz
floppy/
atari-boot.img.gz
atari-root.img.gz
bvme6000-boot.img.gz
bvme6000-root.img.gz
mvm147-boot.img.gz
mvm147-root.img.gz
mvm16x-boot.img.gz
mvm16x-root.img.gz
hd-media/
initrd.gz
initrd22.gz
nativehd/
initrd.gz
initrd22.gz
atari/
bootargs
bootstra.prg
netboot/
initrd.gz
tftplilo.bvme
tftplilo.conf
tftplilo.mvme
tftplilo.txt
kernels/
vmlinuz-2.4.26-amiga
vmlinuz-2.2.25-atari
vmlinuz-2.4.26-atari
vmlinuz-2.2.25-bvme6000
vmlinuz-2.4.26-bvme6000
vmlinuz-2.2.25-mac
vmlinuz-2.2.25-mvme147
vmlinuz-2.4.26-mvme147
vmlinuz-2.2.25-mvme16x
vmlinuz-2.4.26-mvme16x
tools/
rawwrite.ttp
[0] Current m68k d-i directory listing.
cdrom-initrd.gz
cdrom22-initrd.gz
amiga/
nativehd-initrd.gz
vmlinuz-2.4.26-amiga
atari/
bootargs
bootstra.prg
floppy-boot.img.gz
floppy-root.img.gz
nativehd-initrd.gz
rawwrite.ttp
vmlinuz-2.2.25-atari
vmlinuz-2.4.26-atari
bvme6000/
cdrom-boot.img.gz
floppy-boot.img.gz
floppy-root.img.gz
netboot-initrd.gz
tftplilo.bvme
tftplilo.conf
tftplilo.txt
vmlinuz-2.2.25-bvme6000
vmlinuz-2.4.26-bvme6000
mac/
hd-media-initrd.gz
nativehd-initrd.gz
vmlinuz-2.2.25-mac
mvme147/
floppy-boot.img.gz
floppy-root.img.gz
netboot-initrd.gz
tftplilo.conf
tftplilo.mvme
tftplilo.txt
vmlinuz-2.2.25-mvme147
vmlinuz-2.4.26-mvme147
mvme16x/
floppy-boot.img.gz
floppy-root.img.gz
netboot-initrd.gz
tftplilo.conf
tftplilo.mvme
tftplilo.txt
vmlinuz-2.2.25-mvme16x
vmlinuz-2.4.26-mvme16x
Thanks,
Stephen
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