Hi Joseph, thanks for answering ! Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 à 14:18 -0400, Joseph Jezak a écrit : > What devices don't work with the new ofpath?
To be honest, I don't know. And it will be very hard for anyone to make a list of such devices. > What benefit is there to keeping the old one around? Well, as always, backward compatibility. I'm sure there's a lot of people around that are very happy with yaboot currently, and the problems with more recent PPC should not impair them. I know a lot of people despise ofpath in its current state, but nobody that I know of has the knowledge, the ressources, and the time to correctly check if a brand knew ofpath would work on everything the old one has worked on. The closest attempt would be ofpathname, which I think is close to your ofpath technically, and we may try to switch to it (well, it would rather be an upstream decision: I saw some people discuss about it on the yaboot devs ML). But all of these things are a big of a change and I don't think it's the right time to do that, i.e. we'll never integrate such a change in squeeze. After squeeze, well, yes, we should try. Or even think about switching to GRUB 2. > I've tested mine with a Powerbook G4 (old MacIO driver and the new PATA > MacIO driver) and a Quad G5 with various kernels between 2.6.32 and > 2.6.36. More testing would certainly be appreciated! Definitly. I'll try on mine too. Regards, benjamin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1287064003.3143.102.ca...@nsk
