Re: Yet another [cross] installer

2010-03-02 Thread Will Murnane
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:48, JLB wrote: > Namely, if there was ALWAYS a way (which could not be turned off) to extract > a kernel's configuration (in a format which could be plunked into > /usr/src/linux and used to build new modules) from the running kernel, > things would be much simpler. > > W

Re: Yet another [cross] installer

2010-03-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:48:55AM -0500, JLB wrote: > I have a suggestion. The best solution to the 'devices shipped with > hard/impossible-to-change binary kernels' problem, as far as I can tell, > would have to come not from the Debian team, but from the upstream kernel > team. > > Namely,

Re: Yet another [cross] installer

2010-03-02 Thread JLB
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Hector Oron wrote: Hello, Nowadays, the number of devices (non x86) is growing and growing. Lots of these devices have not upstream linux kernel support, which makes it a bit harder to maintain in the context of debian-installer. Also, afaict, debian-installer team does not

CT-PC89E ARM netbook (was: Yet another [cross] installer)

2010-03-02 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Benjamin Henrion wrote: > Do you know where I can buy such device? cc'd to adam gill, he's the person with direct contact with the factory. [ the rest of this message is informational, for your benefit, ben, and also for anyone else who'd like one, too, so you k

Re: Yet another [cross] installer

2010-03-02 Thread Benjamin Henrion
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Hector Oron wrote: >> Hello, > >  hi hector, this is a timely message / issue to raise: it's very > relevant for the (newly discovered) CT-PC89E arm netbook which a > friend of mine found. > >>  

Re: Yet another [cross] installer

2010-03-02 Thread Frans Pop
(Dropped private CCs) On Monday 01 March 2010, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > * the binary-only kernel we're working with, they haven't even > bothered to put in ext2,3 or 4 ext4 is enabled. From dmesg: EXT4-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended EXT4 FS on mmcblk0p3

Re: Yet another [cross] installer

2010-03-01 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Hector Oron wrote: > Hello, hi hector, this is a timely message / issue to raise: it's very relevant for the (newly discovered) CT-PC89E arm netbook which a friend of mine found. > Nowadays, the number of devices (non x86) is growing and growing. > Lots of these

Yet another [cross] installer

2010-03-01 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, Nowadays, the number of devices (non x86) is growing and growing. Lots of these devices have not upstream linux kernel support, which makes it a bit harder to maintain in the context of debian-installer. Also, afaict, debian-installer team does not like to add complexity to d-i, which I u