On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:58:48AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > cc:s added to gain more attention, reply-to: set. > > On Friday 26 November 2004 10:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i'm the current maintainer of quik, the oldworld PPC bootloader. i'm > > currently sponsored by Jakko Niemi. there have been many code changes > > made to it, including fixing bug #259359. for instance, initrd support, > > using chosen/bootargs in OF, and a couple of other things. > > i would like to point out that the default kernel for powerpc is 2.6 and that > the debian kernel packages for 2.6 need initrd support - so this is needed to > be able to use the default debian kernels on oldworld (with a free > bootloader). > > so this quik is desirable for d-i, too. > > > since it's in Section: base, and Priority: important, and there are many > > positive changes to it, i thought it should go into > > sarge-proposed-updates. is there any objection to this? > > no, but as far as i know the initrd code has "only" been tested on three > machines: ANS, pmac 4400 and pmac 7200. If you got access to another oldworld > machine please test and report it.
Mmm, i could test it on the umax apus 2000 and on the pmac 8200/120 i have here, need to test that this weekend. quik didn't work yet on the umax, and i have never really used it, so some kind of help would be welcome in order to set it up. Mmm, wondering if there are some kind of ps2 or usb -> adb adapters, so i could try using the KVM switch for the apple boxes too. > > BTW, many thanks to go Peter 'p2' De Schrijver for his tremendous help in > > making it even possible to close that bug, as it was a pretty hefty bug. > > yup! :-) > > and, better not to forget, the new quik.deb is available at > http://www.ulyssis.org/~p2/debjes/ Thanks, Friendly, Sven Luther
