Re: [PATCH anaconda/master] Add support to determine the ARM processor variety and select the correct kernel to install.

["David A. Marlin" <dmarlin redhat com>]

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> In the common case we're going to be running Anaconda under a Fedora 
> kernel, so we should already have the kernel packaging name in the uname 
> output from EXTRAVERSION - presumably we can just parse that out and use 
> it to detemrine the package name? You'd want a way to manually override 
> that for bootstrapping, but that might well be a desirable feature 
> anyway.
>   
Yes, we can parse the platform from a Fedora kernel, but I was concerned 
about the possible situation where we were not running a Fedora kernel.  
A command line option to override the platform sounds like a good option 
there, and it would also permit us to build images for a target other 
than the build host.

I would appreciate suggestions on how to implement the command line 
option.  I think this would most likely be needed when running 
livemedia-creator to create disk images.  Currently I create the images 
using:

 livemedia-creator \
     --make-disk --no-virt --image-only --keep-image \
     --ks=/root/f17-TS-hfp.ks

Should we add a command line option, like "--platform=...", to 
livemedia-creator?  Would we also need a command line option for 
anaconda itself?


Thank you,

d.marlin