Is there any timeframe on when Yaboot 1.3.11 will be incorporated into the daily snapshot of the installer? According to Ethan Benson's announcement (see below) on [EMAIL PROTECTED], it's supposed to address issues specific to the PowerMac G5 and the aluminum PowerBook G4 series.
Thanks, -- Barry C. Hawkins All Things Computed site: www.allthingscomputed.com weblog: www.yepthatsme.com
<excerpt from debian-powerpc posting > Yaboot 1.3.11 is now available.
This release adds support for the new PowerMac G5 machines, and the aluminum PowerBooks. Support in ofpath has been added for the SATA controller found in the G5, also add-on IDE controllers should now be properly supported.
There are no other changes in this release.
** IMPORTANT NOTE to GNU/Linux distributors:
If you wish for your distribution to be install-able on new PowerMac G5
and Aluminum PowerBook models you MUST upgrade your yaboot packages in
your currently shipping stable distro to 1.3.11, older versions of yaboot
will result in an UN-bootable system!
Yaboot 1.x is in strict maintenance mode, only egregious bug-fixes and very minor changes to support new hardware will be made. All development efforts are being directed at completing prom-libc (http://penguinppc.org/projects/prom-libc/) which will be required by the 100% rewrite of yaboot to become version 2.0. Development help is needed and welcome, if you want to help contact me in private mail.
Yaboot 1.3.11 is as always available from: http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/ and http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/yaboot/
Official version of the yaboot-howto and other yaboot related documentation: http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/doc/ and http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/yaboot/doc/
As always yaboot releases are signed with GnuPG, it is highly recommended you verify this signature (detached ascii .sig file) (this message is also signed with the same key (keyid 0x2C447AFC)).
-- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ </excerpt from debian-powerpc posting>
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