On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:05:12PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > Yeah, removed cpufreq and powerbook support for now. > > > > BTW, you don't recommend it, but would it still be ok for using > > debian-installer ? > > > > The idea is to do the initial installation with 2.4, as there is not yet > > framework for 2.6 kernels, and then, in stage 2 of the installation, > > install a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel, user choice. > > I never had any problem installing with a 2.6 kernel ;) > > (Using old installer, installing woody minimal first, then upgrading > to sid)
Ah, but the problem is that the modules are on the initrd, and thus you need to use a initrd tailored to your kernel, or all hell will break lose in the installation. Furthermore, d-i is currently not yet 2.6 friendly, so 2.4.25 will have to do for now for the install. > > Anyway, now that i have the 2.4.25 package out, i will be doing a 2.6.3 > > kernel. > > > > BTW, i only built a SMP version of the -power4 kernel. Do you think this > > is ok, as i believe most power4 boxes are/will be SMP ones. How big is > > the performance hit on single processor using the SMP kernel ? > > I haven't measured, it's probably significant though. There are some > UP G5s, I don't know how many of those though. Ok, i can always build a UP config then, but if i also do the same for power3 (you told me that it would maybe not run at all, right), this would mean 7 configs building in total, and for 1 hour per config build ... > > /me wonders if i could get a fast G5 box sponsored, since it took me > > two damn days to get these kernels built on my 1GHz G4 :). > > Dunno :) :)) Friendly, Sven Luther
