On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 10:08:08AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Oct 08 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > > Yep. That said, once it is in non-free, it will migrate to testing > > quickly enough. > > Ok. What exactly needs to be done, i.e., which code needs to be removed?
The boot sector is divided in two parts, the first half is a structur ewith data fields, and the second half is code. There is documentation about it on the apple site, with a link on this list a year or so ago. The second half needs to go. Just dd'ing zero's to it should be enough i think. > > but nobody actually tested removing it, so we go about and wonder > > about asking apple to free it, > > I think that getting Apple to free it would be quite a task. Indeed. > > or reimplement it or something, maybe we can only get ride of it and > > upload miboot to contrib ? > > If it works without the proprietary code, why wouldn't it be possible to > have it in main? It needs code-warrior 4 for mac-os-classic to compile :) > > I took the debian 2.6.12 -powerpc flavour and removed stuff until it > > fit on a mibopot floppy. I disabled some modular stuff whih i maybe > > didn't need to. > > Ok, no problems with that. > > > I think you should look at the .config, see what is missing for you, > > and then check if we can remove other stuff and add those that are > > missing for you. Mostly the nfsroot stuff, and maybe have ext2 > > builtin, not sure if we can squeeze the scsi driver in also. > > Where are the sources that you have been playing with? apt-get source linux-2.6 in either sid or etch :) > > ext2/ext3 have never been compiled in for debian 2.6 kernels, so ... > > I said that I had ext2/ext3 compiled in my kernels and I would think > that they would account for more space than the OW fbdevs. Possibly. > > One possibility in the 2.6.13/2.6.14 timeframe is the ability to > > remove the non-apple chrp and prep code. Also, i am not sure if the > > pmac-ide driver works on those machines, or if they use scsi only, in > > this case we can try removing it also. > > The box that I have here only has SCSI controllers, but I think that we > could do what Free Software is best at: leave things that we don't think > are necessary. If anybody is affected or cares to ask for support, then > it probably isn't worth the effort of having it. Well, fine but for the size constraint :) > So, are you packaging 2.6.13 or still going with 2.6.12? In any case > where can I find your latest efforts? 2.6.13 is in experimental, but as it drops devfs, and thus breaks initrd-tools, it needs some work yet, 2.6.12 is the best bet. All of this can be found in the debian-kernel svn repo (follow link from svn.debian.org), and the debian-kernel mailing list. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
