Bug#589579: debian-installer: i386 kernel flavour selection is poor

2010-09-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
Please apply this patch. I've just raised the severity to 'important'; I think problem 1 is serious enough to justify that. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#589579: debian-installer: i386 kernel flavour selection is poor

2010-09-03 Thread Christian PERRIER
reassign 589579 base-installer tags 589579 pending thanks Quoting Ben Hutchings (b...@decadent.org.uk): Please apply this patch. I've just raised the severity to 'important'; I think problem 1 is serious enough to justify that. Ben. Applied signature.asc Description: Digital

Bug#589579: debian-installer: i386 kernel flavour selection is poor

2010-07-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: debian-installer Tags: squeeze patch There are several problems with the current selection: 1. 686-bigmem is not preferred when there is RAM above 4GB 2. 686-bigmem is not always offered where it is usable, and amd64 is never offered 3. The 686 flavour is considered unsuitable for some

Bug#589579: debian-installer: i386 kernel flavour selection is poor

2010-07-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 18 July 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: 3. The 686 flavour is considered unsuitable for some AMD K7 processors Problem 3 appears to be due to a workaround for an incorrect kernel configuration.  The comment on this exclusion is 'May not have SSE support', but this has never been a

Bug#589579: debian-installer: i386 kernel flavour selection is poor

2010-07-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 18 July 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: +   if grep -q '^flags.*\blm\b' $CPUINFO; then Has this been tested with busybox shell? Does busybox' grep understand '\b'? I don't recall us using it anywhere else in D-I. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#589579: debian-installer: i386 kernel flavour selection is poor

2010-07-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 23:08 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 18 July 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: 3. The 686 flavour is considered unsuitable for some AMD K7 processors Problem 3 appears to be due to a workaround for an incorrect kernel configuration. The comment on this exclusion is 'May

Bug#589579: debian-installer: i386 kernel flavour selection is poor

2010-07-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 23:11 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 18 July 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: + if grep -q '^flags.*\blm\b' $CPUINFO; then Has this been tested with busybox shell? Does busybox' grep understand '\b'? I don't recall us using it anywhere else in D-I. This works

Bug#589579: debian-installer: i386 kernel flavour selection is poor

2010-07-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 18 July 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 23:11 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 18 July 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: + if grep -q '^flags.*\blm\b' $CPUINFO; then Has this been tested with busybox shell? Does busybox' grep understand '\b'? I don't recall