Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-16 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:56:24AM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote: > > libdetect. Someone KILL libdetect. > > > > It has fledgling PPC support, but it's (A) hacked together awfully (B) > > a little lacking in correctness (C) nowhere near compiling. I got it > > to build once, with two hours work,

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-16 Thread Randolph Chung
> libdetect. Someone KILL libdetect. > > It has fledgling PPC support, but it's (A) hacked together awfully (B) > a little lacking in correctness (C) nowhere near compiling. I got it > to build once, with two hours work, but not function. hmm.. drow, I'd like to talk to you about this more...

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-11 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:34:52PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > 2.4.1 kernel.org does not build on PPC. Sigh. > > 2.4.0 is ok, right? I guess I'll hold off of 2.4.1 for now.. Not sure. > > Other architectures will want a radically simplified detection scheme. > > PPC

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 05:07:28PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: > I just tried compiling stuff by hand for hurd-i386, the following > components form cvs compile fine > > anna > cdebconf > choose-mirror > main-menu > udpkg > wget Can you compile and upload the packages? There is currently no func

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:34:52PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > 2.4.1 kernel.org does not build on PPC. Sigh. > > 2.4.0 is ok, right? I guess I'll hold off of 2.4.1 for now.. 2.4.0 is even worse (read useless) on powerpc. (linus merged some 2.4 powerpc code in 2.4.1 b

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > 2.4.1 kernel.org does not build on PPC. Sigh. 2.4.0 is ok, right? I guess I'll hold off of 2.4.1 for now.. > Other architectures will want a radically simplified detection scheme. > PPC (mostly) has no legacy ISA or such; everything should show up in > the kernel's P

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Collins wrote: > Well sparc needs three kernels. sun4cdm, sun4dm-pci and sun4u. I can get > you configs, but the problem being that I have no idea what kernel > source you are building. I would hope that you plan to integrate to > 2.4.x sooner or later, but how will you notify ports of this ne

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Glenn McGrath
Glenn McGrath wrote: > I tried dpkg-buildpackage on a couple of these they fail because they > need debhelper which i couldnt install because it depends on dpkg which > conflicts with dpkg-hurd, no doubt this is why autobuilders would fail. > I havent look any deeper yet. > i should have said d

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Glenn McGrath
Joey Hess wrote: > > Ben Collins wrote: > > I can understand it being the first milestone, but it seems to be the > > only focus, and nothing is being considered as to how it affects other > > ports. > > A glance at the debian archive shows that this many udebs have been ported: > > joeyh@auric

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:09:28PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > > I can understand it being the first milestone, but it seems to be the > > only focus, and nothing is being considered as to how it affects other > > ports. > > That's not entirely true; I know of a group (who I ca

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:09:28PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > b. Send me an appropriate kernel config and related information, and build >kernel-image-di once I integrate it. Well sparc needs three kernels. sun4cdm, sun4dm-pci and sun4u. I can get you configs, but the problem being that I have

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Collins wrote: > I can understand it being the first milestone, but it seems to be the > only focus, and nothing is being considered as to how it affects other > ports. That's not entirely true; I know of a group (who I cannot name or go into any detail on since they told me about this privat

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 06:34:59AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > > > > For sparc, there has to be atleast two different boot kernels. One for > > sun4cdm (32bit CPU), and one for sun4u (64bit CPU). SPARC also supports > > native netbooting (via RARP/TFTP). My main concer

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Eray Ozkural (exa)
Ben Collins wrote: > > For sparc, there has to be atleast two different boot kernels. One for > sun4cdm (32bit CPU), and one for sun4u (64bit CPU). SPARC also supports > native netbooting (via RARP/TFTP). My main concern is whether or not it ^ One of the things

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 02:12:43PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > > > > I'm sitting here looking at an obvious build failure for > > kernel-image-di on the sparc buildd, and I'm wondering what the heck > > this package is for anyway. I mean, is this thing supposed to be > > po

Re: what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Glenn McGrath
Ben Collins wrote: > > I'm sitting here looking at an obvious build failure for > kernel-image-di on the sparc buildd, and I'm wondering what the heck > this package is for anyway. I mean, is this thing supposed to be > portable? If it is, it sucks at doing so, and if it's not, then is it > the i

what is the whole purpose of kernel-image-di?

2001-02-06 Thread Ben Collins
I'm sitting here looking at an obvious build failure for kernel-image-di on the sparc buildd, and I'm wondering what the heck this package is for anyway. I mean, is this thing supposed to be portable? If it is, it sucks at doing so, and if it's not, then is it the intention that non-i386 is left o