[Cbe-oss-dev] Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

[Wartan Hachaturow]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Wouter Verhelst <w at uter.be> wrote:
>> (as Debian does not have kboot, and I presume hardly ever will).
>
> Why not? Non-free? Not distributable?

Because ftp-masters wouldn't allow it :)

It is basically a small OpenWRT-based system, and its building process
includes bootstrapping a toolchain and building included/downloaded
busybox/kernel/etc. -- which makes it a nightmare for QA. Of course,
it should be possible to patch the build system to use system
toolchain, Debian's kernel sources (I'm not sure kexec is tested by
our kernel-team) and Debian's busybox, but this seems to be lots of
work, with the resulting patchset needed to be maintained separately.
Ubuntu chose to ignore these problems and package kboot as is. But
that's Ubuntu, they probably do not care :))

>
>> I'll continue working on this stuff, this was just a test image to make sure
>> kernel modules were loaded fine.
> If you have patches, I can help you get them into d-i proper.

Well, I've got commit rights in d-i's svn ;)

-- 
Regards, Wartan.