Hello Frans, thank you for your reply to my call for help! I know that you have a lot of serious work to do for the release architectures. So thanks again for taking the time to look at the comparatively unimportant ppc64 case.
On 06-May-01 03:52, Frans Pop wrote: > How many other patches will be needed to get the level of ppc64 support > you are aiming for? > If the current set is all, I'm willing to go for it. If we're going to get > a lot more patches, I really doubt it's worth it. An additional patch to the 'debian-installer' package will be necessary. That patch does 's/powerpc/powerpc ppc64/' in the Build-Depends and adds the appropriate ppc64 specific files to the build/config and build/pkg-lists directories. The 'debian-installer' patch which I am currently using to build and test d-i on ppc64 is 96 lines long. It basically reuses the config files from the existing powerpc/powerpc64 case by directly including them. My intention was to send this patch as a wishlist request to the BTS but I will wait for a 'green light' from you before I send another ppc64 related patch to a d-i package. > Also, have all preconditions already been met (like ppc64 support in > debootstrap, bootloaders, initrd generators and other packages used by > d-i). Debootstrap, bootloaders and initrd generatures are already working on ppc64. The ppc64 architecture generally uses the same things as the existing powerpc/powerpc64 case. The only difference is that the user space is 64-bit instead of 32-bit. So the necessary infrastructure was already there. Basically only a few instances of 'ppc64' had to be inserted at the appropriate places to make things work for ppc64. For most packages in the archive this has already been done sucessfully in the current 'unstable' and 'testing' versions. > Please provide the full picture. We may re-evaluate after that. I have built a version of d-i for ppc64 which includes a mini.iso. That mini.iso boots fine on my ppc64 machine and the installation process starts and works up to a point. I had to set up the network manually to get around a problem with the automatic DHCP setup and there is also a problem with the partition detection. At least the partition detection problem will probably lead to another ppc64 related patch. Consequently, I can not promise that there will be no more patches necessary to make d-i work on ppc64. I fully understand if you decide that it takes too much time away from more important tasks to bother with ppc64 and I can live with a situation where I have to keep a set of separate d-i patches for the ppc64 archive. But it would of course be easier to eventually get things integrated into the official d-i sources. I still hope that this will be possible at some point. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
