[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#483399: initscript: Support Cell processor spufs

[Arthur Loiret]

Hi,

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 06:52:23PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi Petter,
> 
> Petter Reinholdtsen [2008-05-29 18:04 +0200]:
> > Thank you for the patch.  Why should this be done in the initscripts
> > package, and not in some cell specific package?  I would otherwise
> > believe it would fit better elsewhere, in a package only installed on
> > this hardware.
> 
> Right. However, last time I looked at it, an init script to mount /spu
> would be the only thing in such a hypothetical spu-support package. It
> could be built by the libspe2 source package [1], which would be
> indeed a bit more elegant, but quite expensive for a mere mount. A
> competely separate init script doesn't come for free in terms of boot
> speed, disk usage, etc.
> 
> I CC'ed Arthur, the maintainer of libspe2 in Debian, who should have a
> better idea of how all this fits together. Arthur, any thoughts on
> this?

I think the groupadd and mkdir things should rather be in libspe2's postinst
than in an initscript at all, but it sounds better to keep the mount commands
with appropriated tests in initscripts package. This would indeed avoid having
to create a new cell-specific initscript.

Petter, are you ok with this?


Thank,

Arthur.

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