On 11/24/19 4:06 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello!
On Nov 24, 2019, at 4:20 PM, roberto.guardato <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi Adrian,
i've tested the image for ppc64 on powermac G5, it has the same problem
installing the bootloader.
Yes, as I have communicated here already I have not worked on this issue yet
due to lack of time.
But so far people keep insisting using Yaboot which is unmaintained and buggy
instead of willing to work on ofpathname. So the ofpathname issue won’t be
worked on until I have time for it.
I don’t mean to be snarky, I’m just explaining the current situation and why
the issue isn’t yet fixed.
Yaboot isn’t an option. It’s no longer maintained, has build dependencies on
libraries no longer maintained either and removed from Debian and also doesn’t
support modern ext4 filesystem features.
So, unless Yaboot gets a new upstream maintainer to fix all these issues, it’s
not an option.
Also, for anyone with a Mac, I have left the Yaboot images in the “10.0” folder.
Adrian
I appreciate the work that you do and wonder if I can help a bit here.
The issue seems to be that the open firmware data is being
misrepresented or misunderstood to the grub boot loader or is there
a nice bug report somewhere I can look at ?
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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
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