Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-09-25 Thread Christoph Biedl 
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote...

> On 09/20/2016 11:16 PM, Niels Thykier wrote:
> >- powerpc: No porter (RM blocker)
> 
> I'd be happy to pick up powerpc to keep it for Stretch. I'm already
> maintaining powerpcspe which is very similar to powerpc.

For somewhat personal reasons I'm interested in keeping powerpc in
stretch as well. I certainly cannot take the entire role as a porter,
especially since I don't know what amount of work this implies. But I
am willing to help.

There are two powerpc boxes in my collection, used regulary. One runs
on stable, the other on testing. I haven't done d-i tests but
certainly could do.

Christoph



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Re: Updated installer images

2017-09-10 Thread Christoph Biedl 
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote...

> Please test and report back on the individual architecture
> mailing lists

So far, the ride for ppc64 has been *extremely* painful. This is not
necessarly due to your efforts, but it feels a lot like nobody ever has
tried to set up Debian on a G5 using netboot.

So far (might be incomplete, and I'm both tired and fairly upset):

* Any reasonable documentation on this anywhere? No about how to set up
  DHCP/TFTP server, I've done this many time. But what about which files
  are needed, and how to provide a netboot-adjusted yaboot.conf, and
  mostly: How to make yaboot make using it?

* The OF bootloader needs two rounds to load yaboot.

* yaboot should either get a decent on-line help or see bitrot.

* yaboot's "conf /path/to/config" command, when initially using netboot,
  happiliy ignores the file name but retrieves 01-xx-yy-xx-yy-xx-yy
  using TFTP instead.

* After a lot of trickery, the installer's vmlinux now gets loaded. At a
  whopping 6 kbyte/sec (yes: six kilobytes). Just to remind you, kernel
  and initrd take some 35 megabytes, and the G5 has already turned to
  airplane mode. My neighbors will love me.

This isn't getting anywhere useful soon.

Christoph


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