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

[Sven Luther]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:10:06PM +0200, Frank van Berkel wrote:
> 
> Hi Sven,
> 
> On Thursday 18 August 2005 18:59, you wrote:
> 
> > Mmm, no idea, when you compile your own kernel, do you use MULTIPLATEFOR:,
> > or ISERIES ? The latest is for pre-Power5 iSeries, so it sounds like this
> > would apply to yours, right ?
> >
> > I have not yet built iseries flavoured kernels, but i only need to create
> > an initrd to make this happen, and then yes, it should work for you.
> >
> > Would you test it for me if this was the case ?
> 
> Here's a little sample from my .config:
> 
> # Platform support
> #
> CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES=y
> # CONFIG_PPC_MULTIPLATFORM is not set
> CONFIG_PPC=y
> CONFIG_PPC64=y
> CONFIG_IBMVIO=y
> # CONFIG_POWER4_ONLY is not set
> # CONFIG_IOMMU_VMERGE is not set
> CONFIG_SMP=y
> CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32
> # CONFIG_SCHED_SMT is not set
> # CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set
> CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS=y
> CONFIG_MSCHUNKS=y
> CONFIG_LPARCFG=y

Oh, joy, we have a Iseries tester now, i will build you an iSeries config this
WE, and enable them for the next upload after that :)

> As you can see I use ISERIES, thanks to your biarch gcc I could compile a 
> newer kernel.

Thank gotom, doko and jbailey for the biarch stuff, not me.

> I would gladly test for you if you want. In a couple of weeks we also get a 
> newer iSeries and also there I am going to setup some linux partitions.

The newer iseries should work fine with the powerpc64 flavour.

Friendly,

Sven Luther