Bug#385175: debian-installer: [powerpc] let's move powerpc d-i into the initramfs era ...
Sven Luther
Severity: normal
Tags: patch d-i
Well, i believe there is no reason for any of the 2.6 arches to still use
cramfs, not sure though. In any case, powerpc can handle initramfs just fine
(and indeed, it is used by initramfs-tools for the real ramdisk), and i
believe ubuntu also produces initramfs for their installer incarnation on
powerpc.
So, the attached patch uses an initramfs for all powerpc subarches. Tested on
IBM pSeries p505.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Colin Watson
thanks
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 05:38:09PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> Well, i believe there is no reason for any of the 2.6 arches to still use
> cramfs, not sure though. In any case, powerpc can handle initramfs just fine
> (and indeed, it is used by initramfs-tools for the real ramdisk), and i
> believe ubuntu also produces initramfs for their installer incarnation on
> powerpc.
>
> So, the attached patch uses an initramfs for all powerpc subarches. Tested on
> IBM pSeries p505.
Good point; I'd entirely forgotten that we were still using cramfs.
Applied, thanks.
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Colin Watson [cjwa...@debian.org]
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