Management of the lpia configuration

[Michael Casadevall]

I've been doing some work with persia to fix debian-installer on lpia. 
Although most the issues with d-i on lpia have been resolved, one major 
involving the kernel configuration remains; specifically the ATA drivers (and 
to a lesser extent, the USB and SCSI ones) are built as modules vs. compiled 
into the kernel as on i386. The upshot of this is that the kernel can 
successfully start d-i, but can't find either the CD-ROM or the hard drive 
since it doesn't have the necessary modules.

This leads to the question that now the lpia kernel is a part of the normal 
linux package and not its own linux-lpia kernel. My first thought is to simply 
replace the lpia configuration with the i386 generic config, which is a 
low-maintenance solution to managing the configuration (and resolving the d-i 
module issue). If this isn't acceptable, then I can work out, and provide the 
specific config changes necessary to fix the installer, but I would think from 
a maintenance point of view its easier to just have one kernel configuration 
for i386-generic and lpia.
Michael