svn commit: r221497 - head/release/ia64

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On May 6, 2011, at 6:50 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:

> On 05/06/11 00:21, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>> On May 5, 2011, at 8:29 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>> 
>>> On 05/05/11 16:18, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>>>> On May 5, 2011, at 7:16 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> @@ -84,15 +63,13 @@ if [ $bootable = yes ]; then
>>>>>     mv $MNT/boot/loader.efi $MNT/efi/boot/bootia64.efi
>>>>>     umount $MNT
>>>>>     mdconfig -d -u $md
>>>>> -    BOOTOPTS="-b $EFIPART -no-emul-boot"
>>>>> +    BOOTOPTS="-b bootimage=i386;$EFIPART -o no-emul-boot"
>>>>> else
>>>>>     BOOTOPTS=""
>>>>> fi
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> Can you explain what this particular change does or why it's done?
>>>> 
>>> I'm cleaning up the release-building code, and am switching them from mkisofs to makefs, which provides the same functionality. This started with some irritation with the cdrtools port and a bug in the HFS hybrid generation that was breaking PPC release CD generation. Switching these to depend on makefs in general speeds the release-building process and removes the number of dependencies involved, since makefs is built as part of base.
>> Actually, I was just interested in the 'bootimage=i386' part
>> of your change. I totally get why you're doing it :-)
> 
> Ah, OK :)
> 
> That just sets the El Torito system type to 0 (x86), which is what IA64 uses, as far as I can tell, and doesn't turn on any special magic like is done for the mac. I suppose while we're monkeying about with makefs, we could add an 'ia64' alias.

Nah, don't worry about it...

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Marcel Moolenaar
marcel at xcllnt.net