[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Anyway, in the course of messing about with this, I thought I'd > take a look at the milo source. However, debian does not appear to > provide the source code! This is very bizarre considering that
I wondered when someone was going to notice that. The problem is, to build the 2.0.35 MILO (which we use, because it actually works), you have to build a 2.0.35 kernel for every single subarchitecture then relink MILO with it. So it's a rather involved process. The 2.2 MILO is easier to build since it uses a generic kernel. However all of the binaries I have tried have simply not worked on Miata (probably because of the IDE code in the kernel, but I'm not sure) and there have been problems with other models too I think. There are some other problems with MILO. In particular, the only VGA console code that seems to work is based on a non-free 8086 emulator from DEC. So you see why Compaq is rather eager to deprecate MILO. > to get the source code for any package, examine it and change it and > then rebuild the package. It would be great if this was the case for > milo as well. It's certainly not impossible to make a source package for MILO. It should be possible to have one that works similarly to the kernel-image-foo-alpha source package. Quite simply, nobody has gotten around to doing it. I am basically providing MILO in the boot-floppies as a courtesy to people who have existing MILO-based installations. I do not use MILO and don't have the time to invest in fixing either the no-source-package problem or the bugs in its filesystem code that cause problems for the installation process. Other people are certainly welcome to contribute, though, and you have the source: ftp://genie.ucd.ie/pub/alpha/milo/milo-2.0.35-c7b.tar.gz Cheers -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com/ Linuxcare. Support for the revolution.
