can you tell me how to unsubscribe from this list... On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:13 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Frederic! > > > virtio modules are more and more used in VMs and it would be nice to > have those > > into the netboot and cdrom installers for powerpc on which there are not > at the > > moment. I'm currently in need of these for ppc64 testing. > > That's a very reasonable request and I am pretty sure there is no problem > merging > your patch into the debian-installer repository. One of our sparc64 users > requested > the same change for that architecture as well. > > > Once again, I hit this. On a ppc64 vm, as it's not an official arch, > there no iso > > available and for installing I use netboot, but without virtio support I > don't > > have the network device recognized and I can't netboot. > > There will most likely images available in the near future. Debian > Developer James > Clarke has improved support in debian-installer for Ports architectures > and the > next upload should actually build fine on most of these architectures, > including > ppc64. > > I suggest sending your patch to the debian-boot mailing list. From my > experience, > trivial patches like this one usually get merged quickly. I assume it was > just > overlooked. > > Thanks, > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 > > -- jogideas.com
