Re: Dropping CDs entirely?! (was: Stretch Alpha 3 images)

Cyril Brulebois <[email protected]> Fri, 11 Sep 2015 03:44:16 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.ports.mips,gmane.linux.debian.devel.cd,gmane.linux.debian.devel.boot
Organization	Debian
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi,

And thanks for the feedback.

Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]> (2015-09-06):
> On 2015-09-03 23:03, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 05:21:17PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > >Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> (2015-09-03):
> > >> All looked OK, *except* mips failures:
> > >> 
> > >> install: cannot stat '/org/cdbuilder.debian.org/src/ftp/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-mips/current/images/r4k-ip22/cdrom-boot.img': No such file or directory
> > >> 
> > >> Looks like we need some fixes there...
> > >
> > >I suppose mipsel also fails?
> > >  http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/debian-installer.git/diff/?id=1b92647295e
> > 33ff66a46a5665e7f293d04fd2e19
> > 
> > You might think so, but no - the builds all worked for mipsel.
> > 
> > >Changelog says:
> > >| [ Aurelien Jarno ]
> > >| * Drop r4k-ip22, r5k-ip32 and sb1-bcm91250a images on mips.
> > >| * Drop sb1-bcm91250a images on mipsel.
> > >
> > >But the diff has an extra miniiso removal:
> > > - The following subarchs got removed on mips:
> > >     r4k-ip22 r5k-ip32 sb1-bcm91250a miniiso
> 
> The miniiso was only containing boot support for r4k-ip22 which has been
> dropped.
> 
> > Right. That means that we'll end up with no bootable options on mips
> > images. CCing debian-mips for guidance there.
> > 
> 
> Most of the flavours requires to pass the d-i kernel/initrd to uboot or
> similar bootloader to run d-i. The flavours we dropped were the only one
> with CD-ROM support.
> 
> I guess however it still makes sense to continue producing the CD-ROM
> images, but without making them bootable.

Steve, any chance we could do that soonish? Since linux's ABI bump
migrated to testing I chose to reupload d-i with that change, and
reinstate block-udeb * until the release. I've just asked ftpmasters
to dak copy-installer 20150911, which is what we should be using for
d-i Stretch Alpha 3.

> In the long term, we might want to add bootable support for the
> remaining flavours, but I have no idea if they support booting over
> a CD-ROM or USB image. Does someone known if we can do so on a
> Loongson 3 or Octeon machine?

(Leaving that part to mips porters.)

Mraw,
KiBi.

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