On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:16:46AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 09:34:50AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > As you might know, experimental grub2 support has been added to d-i > > > when using the expert mode, but it is only yet available on > > > i386/amd64. > > > > I think powerpc support might be a bit premature. The powerpc code > > upstream is a bit lagging compared with i386/amd64, and depends on > > tools not in Debian. For example, changed to the i386 shell scripts > > have not been made to the corresponding powerpc scripts; this really > > needs to be made into common code, to avoid this needless effort. The > > same also applies to some of the C source. It's not a great deal of > > work to fix these issues, but I am currently lacking sufficient time > > to do it myself. > > > > This may be outdated though--I haven't checked out grub2 for a couple > > of months, so it may have already been rectified. > > This is strange. I know one of the core grub2 maintainers is using powerpc > regularly (with code from CVS). > > As for tools not in Debian, you mean ofpathname? Is the grub2 debian package > usable at all without ofpathname? (I understand that at least grub-install > won't work, making d-i support impossible).
ofpathname is part of the ibm-powerpc-utils package (not the same as the package currently in debian), and Aurelien Gerome is packaging it, since yaboot also needs it over the kind-of-broken ofpath found in the yaboot code, so this should be less an issue than you think. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
