On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:43:46AM +0000, William R Sowerbutts wrote: > Hi Sven, > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:18:08PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > 1) debian-installer provided libparted based partman partitioner should be > > able to resize HFS and HFS+ partititons, i have not personally played much > > with it, but it should work. Feedback is welcome. > > That's clever. I'll have to give it a go one day. Does it support journalled > HFS+? The Mac Mini ships with a single journalled HFS+ partition spanning the > entire disk. I'm not sure how journalling was implemented in HFS+, presumably > it's backwards-compatible?
Not sure, please give it a try, and submit a bug report if it fails, and we will see if K.G. will be able to fix it, he is the author of the libparted HFS-resize patch. > > 2) you say "Build an optimized kernel". I strongly object to this > > recomendation, and ask you to remove it from your howto. The existing > > debian > > kernel should be enough for everyone, and i don't believe that you can > > further optimize it. > > Is there no performance difference resulting from removing the PPC 601 sync > workarounds, which are built into the Debian kernel but not necessary on the > G4? The kernel documentation for "CONFIG_PPC601_SYNC_FIX" says "These extra > instructions reduce performance slightly". Mmm, maybe, but probably nothing quantifiable. Benh, or someone knowledgeable, can you maybe comment on this ? > You are quite right, though, the kernel shipped by Debian does work very well > on the mini, and there is no pressing reason to replace it. I've changed the > phrasing to make it sound less like a recommendation. It now reads: "If you > wish to build your own kernel, here is my kernel .config for 2.6.9, which you > may find useful. Building a new kernel is very quick and simple with the > Debian tools, just install "kernel-package" and follow the documentation." Please add something to the effect that it is not really recomended nor supported by the debian/powerpc kernel maintainers too. Also, there is some hope on the airport extreme, altough a remote one, i am considering a little hardware project on this one. The main question is if this card is indeed the exact same airport extreme card as used in i|powerbooks ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
