On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 07:25:39PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > > Hi Joey, > > * Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-09 22:53]: > | If you're involved in a d-i port, please write back and tell me what the > | current status is (boots to main menu, some successful installs, > | whatever), and what you expect the status to be in approximatly 2 weeks. > > > I guess we have the following PowerPC status (please correct me, if this > is wrong at any point): > > - NewWorld PowerPC's are well supported (Apple) > - OldWorld PowerPC's are _not_ supported (because we need a floppy boot > method here)
There is already a oldworld kernel in the NEW queue. It is called powerpc-small, and should fit with miboot on a floppy. > - Pegasos is supported, if the new kernels escape from NEW (Sven?) Yep, altough i will have to redo a build because of some RTC stuff i have doubts about. > - IBM RS/6000 machines (Chrep): should be supported, I'm working on a > special kernel build here at the moment. (direkt cdrom is maybe also > possible) Huh ? The normal kernel build should work, you just need the powerpc-chrp-rs6k flavor of the kernel. There is also a non-rs6k chrp flavor (used by the Pegasos, but also other chrps out there, i think). > - PReP machines are completly unsupported There is the powerpc-prep kernel, which should work. For chrp, chrp-rs6k and prep, i don't really know what support is needed apart from the kernel. The kernel with the same powerpc config should work, but you need to adjust the boot-loader wrapper. Ah, i forgot, you need to embedd the initrd for some of those, but i have code and a package (also sitting in the NEW queue) for taking an initrd and embedding it in the kernel. I am not sure of the interest of embeded initrds for pmac, but they can be used on prep, chrp and chrp-rs6k, when not doing netboots (which can load the initrd from the net, if i am not wrong). > (unsupported means here, you can simply download one of the d-i images > and install a system) Nope, this does not work, you need the kernel sitting in the NEW queue since over a month for that to happen. (Sorry, for ranting, but i have discovered that nothing but repeated ranting helps in this kind of case, and sorry, but letting one of your fellow developer in the dark so long, without even a feedback of any kind, is extremely rude, especially for things as important as this. And then, it will be expected of me that i rush this support at the last minutes, days before the 28/12. Something is very rotten in the way debian works here.). Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
