svn commit: r264935 - head/release/amd64

[Glen Barber]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 02:58:34PM -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> 
> On 04/25/14 14:52, Glen Barber wrote:
> >On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 02:46:46PM -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> >>I appreciate the caution. Thanks for the clarification! I'm planning to get
> >>EFI support into the installer this weekend.
> >Speaking of the installer...
> >
> >How difficult would it be to be able to select a kernel for installation
> >if more than one kernel.${foo}.txz is provided on the install medium?
> >
> >The use case I have in mind is where kernel.VT.txz is extracted to
> >/boot/kernel.VT (which I believe the loader menu already supports
> >multi-kernel), an alternate kernel can be chosen for booting and then
> >can subsequently be chosen as the installed kernel during the extract
> >phase.
> >
> >This would actually cut down quite a bit on snapshot build times, since
> >right now I have to do a separate build for each kernel.
> >
> >Thoughts?
> >
> >Glen
> >
> 
> Not that hard. If you want to just add extra optional kernels, the installer
> doesn't even need any patches -- you just have to add it to the make release
> logic (and MANIFEST) as an extra tarball. Installing it to /boot/kernel
> would require removing the logic in bsdinstall/scripts/auto that removes
> "kernel" from the menu as a nonoptional package.

Hmm, if I remember correctly, last time I booted an installer with
multiple kernels, there were no options for the kernel in the
distribution menu.  Or do you mean that if it were marked as optional,
they would appear?

Anyway, the release logic already supports 'KERNCONF="GENERIC VT"'
listing of multiple kernels, so that is not an issue.

Thanks!

Glen

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