Subject: Re: Status of boot-floppies on Alpha?
From: Marcel Harkema (marcel@qahwah.cistron.nl )
Date: Wed Oct 13 1999 - 13:03:26 PDT
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 11:23:05AM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> marcel@debian.org (Marcel Harkema) writes:
>
> > On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 04:25:24PM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> > Are you a debian developer? Then you can commit changes yourself.
> > If not I'll be happy to apply them for you.
>
> Well, I am a Debian developer, but I'm behind a firewall and can't use
> CVS, so it would be nice if you could commit those patches. Shouldn't
> break anyhing I'm pretty sure. While at it, could you please also add
> ash to the dependencies? scripts/rootdisk/mklibs.sh uses it.
The ash dependency is in CVS since yesterday.
> > > I'm not sure lowmemrd is really needed for Alpha anyway... Were there
> > > alphas at any time with < 16 MB RAM? The lowest I've ever heard was
> > > 32.
> >
> > Nod. You can drop lowmem support.
>
> I'll make a patch that skips it and post it here (=debian-boot).
Great!
> > You can turn off library reduction for now (afaik i386 is the only
> > arch on which library reduction works currently?). See rootdisk.sh,
> > and look for 'reduction'.
>
> Ok, I'll do that.
I already disabled it for alpha, it's in CVS.
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