Hi, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > There seems to have been some confusion about whether this table lists > kernel or installer flavours. As this is the installation manual, I > think it makes sense to document the latter. > > Not only is there no 5kc-malta installer flavour for mips or mipsel,
Ok, deleted in my workingcopy. > there is also no armmp-lpae flavour of the installer for armel. Please > delete that as well. Hmm, the table has armmp-lpae only for armhf, not for armel. Do you want me to remove that one for armhf? > > Also, the versatile flavour for armel was dropped after we accidentally > broke the kernel configuration and yet received no bug reports about > it. Please delete that as well. Ok, deleted. > Finally, two of the architectures are missing documentation of their > installer flavours: > > - For i386 there are default and xen installer flavours. The xen That would mean, we have to add 2 "flavor" entries for i386? How would we name them? Some proposal below in the table ... The "default" entries are not optimal ... > installer flavour is needed for Xen PV domains only. > - For powerpc there are powerpc and powerpc64 installer flavours. > I believe powerpc64 is needed on all systems with 64-bit > OpenFirmware. That means the same? Add to flavors for ppc64el? How to name them? I am confused here, powerpc is no release arch anymore, right? Proposal table: ┌────────────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────────────────────┬──────────┐ │ Architecture │ Debian │ Subarchitecture │ Flavor │ │ │ Designation │ │ │ ├────────────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤ │ │ │default │default │ │Intel x86-based │i386 ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤ │ │ │Xen PV domains │xen │ ├────────────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤ │AMD64 & Intel 64 │amd64 │ │ │ ├────────────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤ │ARM │armel │Marvell Kirkwood and Orion │marvell │ ├────────────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤ │ │ │multiplatform │armmp │ │ARM with hardware │armhf ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤ │FPU │ │multiplatform for LPAE-capable│armmp-lpae│ │ │ │systems │ │ ├────────────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤ │64bit ARM │arm64 │ │ │ ├────────────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤ │32bit MIPS │ │MIPS Malta │4kc-malta │ │(big-endian) │mips ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤ │ │ │Cavium Octeon │octeon │ ├────────────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤ │ │ │MIPS Malta │5kc-malta │ │64bit MIPS │ ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤ │(little-endian) │mips64el │Cavium Octeon │octeon │ │ │ ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤ │ │ │Loongson 3 │loongson-3│ ├────────────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤ │ │ │MIPS Malta │4kc-malta │ │32bit MIPS │ ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤ │(little-endian) │mipsel │Cavium Octeon │octeon │ │ │ ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤ │ │ │Loongson 3 │loongson-3│ ├────────────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤ │ │ │IBM POWER8 or newer machines │powerpc64 │ │Power Systems │ppc64el ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤ │ │ │Powerpc ??? │powerpc │ ├────────────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────┤ │64bit IBM S/390 │s390x │IPL from VM-reader and DASD │generic │ └────────────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────┘ Thanks Holger -- ============================================================ Created with Sylpheed 3.5.0 under D E B I A N L I N U X 8 . 0 " J E S S I E " . Registered Linux User #311290 - https://linuxcounter.net/ ============================================================