[Debian-ppc64-devel] powerpc d-i daily builds reactivated, use 2.6.12 kernels, including 64bit kernels, miboot floppies dropped for now.

[Frank van Berkel]

Hi,

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:30:50 +0200, Sven Luther wrote

> Since the 2.6.12 powerpc kernel in the archive now support 64bit 
> kernels, thanks to the work of the toolchain guys with regard to 
> biarch on ppc, i have uploaded kernel .udebs and triggered new 
> reorganised daily builds of the sid debian-installer images.
> 
> I was forced to disable the floppy builds for now, since they failed 
> to build, and the 2.6.12 kernels are 200K too big anyway for miboot 
> floppies, we need to find out how to make them smaller, and solve 
> the non-freeness of miboot for the etch release.
> 
> Also, as said, the power3 and power4 flavours have gone, replaced 
> with a single powerpc64 one.
> 
> Now, the 2.6.12 kernels are not yet in testing, so these images 
> cannot be used to install etch, only sid, which may be broken for 
> other reasons, and base-installer has been changed to know about the 
> new kernels, so neither etch is installable for now, nor is sarge.
>
> Anyway, please all enjoy, test and provide feedback for these new images.

Will that d-i also work on an iSeries Linux LPAR Machine?

     *-cpu
          product: RS64-IV (sstar)
          physical id: 1
          bus info: cpu at 0
          version: 0.0

I have a installer from Karl Kappel but I'm wondering if I could use the new 
installers?


Regards,

Frank