Am Die, den 23.12.2003 schrieb Sven Luther um 11:30: > Hello, > > Finally, the new powerpc kernel packages have been accepted and will > probably enter the archive this evening. This means that as of tomorrow, > the powerpc build will be broken, and i will try to fix what needs > fixing in debian-installer today or tomorrow. very good news! > > Saddly, it is as i have feared, that the package will be accpepted on > the eve of me going out for christmas and being offline until monday the > 29. But well, this is the disorganized way debian works, and we have to > make do. > > So, i will try to fix this evening and tomorrow morning, but i would > appreciate if other persons interested in the debian port would also > look at it after that, in particular to make sure that i didn't break > stuff on non chrp hardware. I can take a look at it probably on the 26th. >
> 2) Well, on chrp (and probably pmac, but there we don't care) there is > a size limit to the initrd we can use (1.4Mo (boot-floppies) works, > 2.2Mo (debian-installer cd target) don't). We can use the 1.1Mo net > target initrd though, or copy the initrd to a partition and boot from > there. I need to fix this, but it is not an easy thing. For loading initrds with yaboot this limit does not exist AFAIK. > > 3) Someone need to work on the miboot floppy target, using the > powerpc-small kernel that will be available, for support on old world > pmacs. This has to be done by someone owning oldworld hardware... > > Also, i have a problem concerning the devfs stuff. There is a (generic) > bug in the kernel, which makes the /proc/partitions show the devfs path > even if devfs is not mounted. This is problematic, since altough the > tools will be able to handle that, it will really be confusing for the > users. As we have discussed before I don't think this is a big problem because i386 is in the same situation for a long time now and it did not cause any problems. > > Now, would it make sense to postpone the beta2 to a more reasonable > date (january 11 for example), or do we drop powerpc support for the > beta2 and release a beta3 shortly thereafter ? A December 31 beta2 > release date would be ok also, since i will be again here the 29 and 30, > and be able to fix stuff if needed. I would also like to release the beta2 around jan 11. If it's going to be released earlier I will not have the time to help out much on powerpc. Gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
