Hello, Now that sarge is released, and we are concentrating on the upcoming etch release, as shown with the new c++ toolchain announcement from doko, i plan to retire the 32bit kernels for power3 and power4, and to pass as soon as possible to 64bit kernels for those arches.
I have already built a -pseries version, which altough not power4 optimized, will run on everything but legacy iseries (those predating the power5 ones), which was successfully tested on both pmacs G5 (a dying race now it seems though), and IBM power5 boxes (altough the ones with logical partitions still seem to be somewhat buggy). And plan to do a -legacy-iseries build as well as a power4 optimized version in the near future. These kernels where built in a sarge chroot using the ubuntu biarch ppc64 toolchain, and i am already building .udebs for those kernels, as well as daily d-i images, and have an unofficial .udeb archive which will provide those .udebs. I lacked time to patch base-installer and net-fetcher or whatever it is called to get the .udebs from there though, and would like these packages to get integrated in sid and then etch as fast as possible, to make testing of this stuff easier. So, i would like to ask the debian toolchain maintainers what is the expected timeframe to get a ppc64 biarch toolchain in sid or even experimental ? Or should i rely on the ubuntu toolchain, and use that to upload kernels to sid in the near future ? Together with a statically built procps naturally ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
