Each architecture must define the following functions in kernel/$ARCH.sh: arch_get_kernel_flavour () Prints a string describing the flavour of kernel to install. This can be in whatever scheme you like; it just has to be in sync with the other architecture-specific functions, where it's used. May expect $ARCH and $SUBARCH to be set to the architecture and subarchitecture (if applicable) respectively. This function should describe the kernel flavour in sufficiently general terms as to be able to test the usability of kernels of any major version. As such, it is not a good idea to make this function conditional on $KERNEL_MAJOR. If you need radically different kernel names depending on the kernel major version, you should handle that in the other architecture-specific functions. Returns zero if successful, or non-zero otherwise. If non-zero, it should print some kind of warning to syslog explaining why. arch_check_usable_kernel (kernel, flavour) Test whether a kernel is usable at all. For the purposes of this test, we assume that SMP is usable on UP and vice versa (is this safe?). Some architectures just have a hierarchy of optimized kernels, whereas some have subarchitectures that are incompatible at the kernel level. This function should cope with both cases. Note that by default any postfix (starting with a hyphen) is allowed after the flavor. This allows for custom kernels and also, for example, for kernel meta packages for stable kernel updates that have a postfix to distinguish them from the regular kernel meta packages. This means that if a specific postfix (such as -smp, or -bigmem) is not allowed, this should be tested explicitly. The same goes for prefixes: any prefix before the flavor is allowed by default. Returns zero if the kernel is usable on this flavour, or non-zero otherwise. arch_get_kernel (flavour) Print the preferred kernels for this flavour, one per line, in order of preference. No return value; must not fail. (If there's a problem, one of the two functions above should already have failed.) Shell variables all functions may expect: ARCH The architecture (as returned by udpkg --print-architecture). SUBARCH The subarchitecture (as returned by archdetect). CPUINFO The location of /proc/cpuinfo, parameterised for the benefit of the test suite. OFCPUS Open Firmware /cpus directory. Useful on OF platforms when CPUINFO grepping won't work. KERNEL_MAJOR The major version of the running kernel, e.g. 2.6. KERNEL_VERSION The full version of the running kernel, e.g. 2.6.8. KERNEL_FLAVOUR The flavour of the running kernel, e.g. 486, 686-bigmem or ixp4xx. MACHINE The machine hardware name (as returned by uname -m). NUMCPUS The number of CPUs in the machine. Will only be set if /var/numcpus exists, and may not be very accurate (ie, 2 for any SMP machine). Only of use when grepping CPUINFO won't work. Please update the regression tests in the tests/ directory when making changes here. In particular, calls to inspect the kernel version or files in /proc need support in the test suite so that the full test suite can be run for all architectures on any architecture.