Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-16 Thread Randolph Chung
libdetect. Someone KILL libdetect. It has fledgling PPC support, but it's (A) hacked together awfully (B) a little lacking in correctness (C) nowhere near compiling. I got it to build once, with two hours work, but not function. hmm.. drow, I'd like to talk to you about this more... am

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-16 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:56:24AM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote: libdetect. Someone KILL libdetect. It has fledgling PPC support, but it's (A) hacked together awfully (B) a little lacking in correctness (C) nowhere near compiling. I got it to build once, with two hours work, but not

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 05:07:28PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: I just tried compiling stuff by hand for hurd-i386, the following components form cvs compile fine anna cdebconf choose-mirror main-menu udpkg wget Can you compile and upload the packages? There is currently no functional

what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Ben Collins
I'm sitting here looking at an obvious build failure for kernel-image-di on the sparc buildd, and I'm wondering what the heck this package is for anyway. I mean, is this thing supposed to be portable? If it is, it sucks at doing so, and if it's not, then is it the intention that non-i386 is left

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Glenn McGrath
Ben Collins wrote: I'm sitting here looking at an obvious build failure for kernel-image-di on the sparc buildd, and I'm wondering what the heck this package is for anyway. I mean, is this thing supposed to be portable? If it is, it sucks at doing so, and if it's not, then is it the

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 02:12:43PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: Ben Collins wrote: I'm sitting here looking at an obvious build failure for kernel-image-di on the sparc buildd, and I'm wondering what the heck this package is for anyway. I mean, is this thing supposed to be portable? If

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Eray Ozkural (exa)
Ben Collins wrote: For sparc, there has to be atleast two different boot kernels. One for sun4cdm (32bit CPU), and one for sun4u (64bit CPU). SPARC also supports native netbooting (via RARP/TFTP). My main concern is whether or not it ^ One of the things we

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 06:34:59AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: Ben Collins wrote: For sparc, there has to be atleast two different boot kernels. One for sun4cdm (32bit CPU), and one for sun4u (64bit CPU). SPARC also supports native netbooting (via RARP/TFTP). My main concern is

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Collins wrote: I can understand it being the first milestone, but it seems to be the only focus, and nothing is being considered as to how it affects other ports. That's not entirely true; I know of a group (who I cannot name or go into any detail on since they told me about this

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:09:28PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: b. Send me an appropriate kernel config and related information, and build kernel-image-di once I integrate it. Well sparc needs three kernels. sun4cdm, sun4dm-pci and sun4u. I can get you configs, but the problem being that I have

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:09:28PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Ben Collins wrote: I can understand it being the first milestone, but it seems to be the only focus, and nothing is being considered as to how it affects other ports. That's not entirely true; I know of a group (who I cannot

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Glenn McGrath
Joey Hess wrote: Ben Collins wrote: I can understand it being the first milestone, but it seems to be the only focus, and nothing is being considered as to how it affects other ports. A glance at the debian archive shows that this many udebs have been ported:

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Glenn McGrath
Glenn McGrath wrote: I tried dpkg-buildpackage on a couple of these they fail because they need debhelper which i couldnt install because it depends on dpkg which conflicts with dpkg-hurd, no doubt this is why autobuilders would fail. I havent look any deeper yet. i should have said

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Collins wrote: Well sparc needs three kernels. sun4cdm, sun4dm-pci and sun4u. I can get you configs, but the problem being that I have no idea what kernel source you are building. I would hope that you plan to integrate to 2.4.x sooner or later, but how will you notify ports of this new

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: 2.4.1 kernel.org does not build on PPC. Sigh. 2.4.0 is ok, right? I guess I'll hold off of 2.4.1 for now.. Other architectures will want a radically simplified detection scheme. PPC (mostly) has no legacy ISA or such; everything should show up in the kernel's PCI

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:34:52PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: 2.4.1 kernel.org does not build on PPC. Sigh. 2.4.0 is ok, right? I guess I'll hold off of 2.4.1 for now.. 2.4.0 is even worse (read useless) on powerpc. (linus merged some 2.4 powerpc code in 2.4.1 but