On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:48:29 -0500 (EST)
"Brad House" <brad_mssw@g.o> wrote:

> no, no livecd support yet in catalyst.  We just had a fairly
> major meeting last night on livecd/catalyst support, and work
> has just began on that portion of catalyst.  If you want to be
> a really big help, you can test out the new rewrite of genkernel.

Ok I'll try when I'll have some time.

> It's not yet 100% complete, but definately usable.  Also, if you
> could submit your arch-specific configs to the tree that would
> be great, as of right now, it only has x86 and x86_64 configs.

I guess you speak about kernel configs here. I never used genkernel but if
it use the livecd config for generating ppl's kernel, ppl will really have
ugly kernels :)

> There's a brief README which should tell you how to do it.
> GenKernel will be used internally in catalyst in order to build
> the kernel and initrd image(s).

I didn't read the readme yet but please if you create a livecd script, split
it in many function/subfunction which we could reimplement somewhere in a arch
specific file. And keep the opportunity to have simple loop or cloop file for
livecd. hppa 64bit kernel can't use gcloop yet due to compiler problems.

Ah yes, I just commited hppa specific files/changes to catalyst for stage
building. I copied hppa.py from ia64.py but it seems that ia64.py is b0rked
at line 18 : class arch_ia64(build.generic):
should be builder.generic I think.


> The location of the new genkernel is in CVS:
> gentoo/src/genkernel_bradmssw
> 
> And it will become genkernel-3.0 when it is complete.
> 
> -Brad
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