[Bug 276609] New: kiwi not supported on PowerPC
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=276609 Summary: kiwi not supported on PowerPC Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Alpha 4 Platform: PowerPC OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: pczanik@genesi-usa.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Kiwi is currently supported only on x86 systems. As it's becoming the heart of thin client technologies at SuSE (SLES thin client, and openSUSE LTSP integration), the lack of kiwi would make these unavailable on the PowerPC platform. Please add PPC support to kiwi! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=276609 chrubis@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team- |ms@novell.com |screening@forge.provo.novell| |.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=276609 ms@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|kiwi not supported on |kiwi: not supported on PowerPC |PowerPC | ------- Comment #1 from ms@novell.com 2007-05-23 11:11 MST ------- you are right, unfortunately the resources to get that done are limited will check that -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=276609 ------- Comment #2 from pczanik@genesi-usa.com 2007-05-30 06:20 MST ------- Thanks, that would be nice, as LTSP porting to openSUSE makes nice progress, but I can't test it without kiwi... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=276609 ------- Comment #3 from ms@novell.com 2007-06-04 01:01 MST ------- List comment from Peter: just for interest:
BTW: porting to PPC would be easy now: there is no Xen yet (it's still in development), current kernel does not work in qemu, there is no vmWare, so basically netbooting, liveDVD and USB remains. None of these need syslinux, just the creating of a bootable kernel image...
Sounds good so far, Is there anything kiwi must do differently ? Something we had to change in the code ?
I think, first I need to find an x86 machine, so I can see what it does exactly. But basically everything is the same except for booting. Instead of syslinux loading vmlinuz & initrd, use 'mkzimage' from the PPC version of the 'lilo' package to create a combined boot kernel image and use that. It does not really need any installation, just copy the resulting file on the CD or the TFTP server and it's ready for use. If you look at an ftp installation source (or a PPC CD), there is a suseboot directory. 'inst32' is this type of file. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=276609 ms@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|Normal |Enhancement -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
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