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Porting debian-installer to 2.6 for your architecture
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This is a fairly haphazard collection of notes on what you need to do to
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port d-i to 2.6 for your architecture.
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Kernels and build system
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* Make sure your kernels have devfs built-in. d-i doesn't do udev yet.
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* Create packages/kernel/linux-kernel-di-<architecture>-2.6/ with
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appropriate sets of module udebs. There are plenty of examples to borrow
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from here.
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* Create 2.6.cfg files in installer/build/config/ for each target you want
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to ship with 2.6. You'll need to set at least KERNELVERSION,
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KERNELMAJOR, and EXTRANAME. i386 has good examples here. Use
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FLAVOUR_SUPPORTED in the parent config file to get 2.6.cfg to be
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included in the build system.
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* If your kernels don't have ext2 built-in (some 2.6 ones don't), set
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INITRD_FS = cramfs.
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* Add your architecture to the module-init-tools build-dependency list in
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installer/debian/control.
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* If you need different packages in your initrd on 2.6 versus 2.4 which
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aren't already handled by the build system, look in
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installer/build/pkg-lists/kernel_specific/.
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Other packages
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* Make any necessary changes to packages/rootskel/debian/templates-arch.
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* Make packages/base-installer/debian/postinst install an appropriate 2.6
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kernel when d-i is running with 2.6 itself.
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* You may need to make some changes to hardware detection in
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packages/ddetect/.
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* You may need to tweak packages/usb-discover/usb-discover, particularly
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if you're using a different kernel version from other architectures.
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