From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew•cmu.edu>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Incoming to helium.harhan.org:/home/linuxppc/linuxppc_2_4_alt
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 16:15:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020409161537.A11697@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0204092005.AA24074@ivan.Harhan.ORG>
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 01:05:42PM -0700, Michael Sokolov wrote:
>
> Tom Rini <trini@kernel•crashing.org> wrote:
>
> > Taking debian as an example here. You certainly wouldn't stick a zImage
> > for every board into 1 package.
>
> Exactly, which is why I never liked that idea.
>
> > So you only 'win' if you have a common, _bootable_ image on all of these
> > boards.
>
> Yes.
>
> > And while it is possible that there could be a common
> > firmware, I'm not holding my breath. :)
>
> When I go to Debian with this, I'll be asking for a ppcstar subarch to join to
> the ranks of apus, chrp, powermac, and prep. All HEC PPC boards will be
> PPCStar-compliant. If another manufacturer wants Debian support, they'll have
> to address Debian themselves and decide for themselves if they want to
> standardize their boot mechanism to make their request more acceptable.
Debian only supplies CONFIG_ALL_PPC images right now. The
CHRP/pmac/PREP breakdown was only for 2.2.
If GENERIC_PPC32 is adequate, I'll do that instead - when it's ready.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200204060739.g367duV18841@helium.Harhan.ORG>
2002-04-08 15:20 ` Incoming to helium.harhan.org:/home/linuxppc/linuxppc_2_4_alt Tom Rini
2002-04-08 17:58 ` benh
2002-04-08 18:57 ` Tom Rini
2002-04-08 18:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-04-09 8:14 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-04-09 10:08 ` benh
[not found] ` <0204081705.AA21087@ivan.Harhan.ORG>
2002-04-08 18:02 ` benh
2002-04-09 14:52 ` Tom Rini
2002-04-09 19:23 ` Michael Sokolov
2002-04-09 19:47 ` Tom Rini
2002-04-09 20:05 ` Michael Sokolov
2002-04-09 20:15 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2002-04-10 15:09 ` Tom Rini
2002-04-11 3:11 ` Michael Sokolov
2002-04-11 15:29 ` Tom Rini
2002-04-15 16:54 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2002-04-15 18:11 Michael Sokolov
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