[oe] [Angstrom-devel] [RFC] Get rid of adhoc machine-specific messing with kernel packages

[Koen Kooi]

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Paul Sokolovsky schreef:
> Hello angstrom-distro-devel,
> 
>   Thanks for providing pre-holiday 20061219 snapshots for testing.
> They don't provide separate zImages, but well, that's ok - they are in
> the images, after all.
> 
>   Well, not for hx4700, for example. Because:
> 
> ======== linux-handhelds-2.6.inc =====
> FILES_kernel-image_hx4700 = ""
> ALLOW_EMPTY_hx4700 = "1"
> FILES_kernel-image_htcuniversal = ""
> ALLOW_EMPTY_htcuniversal = "1"
> ======================================
> 
>   Oops. Sources of such a special treatment of hx4700 and htcuniversal
> would be unclear to outsider, but people who deal with (mis)features
> of "ipaqs" know, that hx4700 has one (sic!, even if the most popular)
> bootloader which doesn't use zImage in the image, but instead requires
> adhoc means to install kernel, ditto for Universal, though bootloader
> is another.
> 
>   So, what is tried here is to "save space". But there're few issues:

Those lines should go, but not before we have a way to exclude 'kernel-image' from the
rootfs *and* kernel-module-foo doesn't depend kernel-image anymore.

regards,

Koen

> 1. See concern in the beginning of the message.
> 2. It's pretty weird to do such hack on a package level. Kernel
> package supposed to contain kernel, period. If there's some pressure
> to not have kernel in image, that's from where it should be removed.
> 3. Keywords in the description why this being done above are "a
> bootloader" and "currently". Sooner or later all this adhockery will
> be gone, and existing generic, machine-independent solutions, like
> LAB, will be adopted, which boot from the filesystem, and thus adhere
> to idea of complete system maintenance via packaged install
> (including, for kernel). For the multimachine distribution like
> Angstrom, supporting hacks like above is already pain in the neck, as
> the case above shows.
> 
> 
>   So, my proposal is to remove the lines quoted above. People who
> under pressure to have an extra MB and don't shudder to steal it from
> the kernel, can do that manually ;-).
> 
> 

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