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

[Martin Pitt]

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?

Thank you!

Martin

[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/libs/libspe2.html

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