On Die, 2010-07-13 at 21:54 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > On 06/28/2010 02:42 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: > > We could, perhaps, offer two boot loaders for NewWorld ppc machines in > > Debian > > and phase out yaboot once we know that GRUB2 works fine. (That still leaves > > those users of miboot and quik without good alternatives). > > My primary powerpc machine (an iBook G3) is halting in some ways that I have > not > yet figured out, which I suppose are related to heat. > > That being said, I would like to go on and take some care of powerpc (as I > have > some embedded machines that use it). In particular, I would like to upload a > new > version of yaboot, to be a little more in sync with upstream. > > Two questions, therefore: > > 1 - is there any problem with that? > 2 - would there be anybody to sponsor a possible upload to unstable?
I guess I could do that, if nobody more active than me volunteers. > Also, it would be very nice if we had reports from people that tried to use > GRUB2 on powerpc. There should be several reports of mine in the debian-powerpc list archives. In summary, it's been working on my PowerBook for at least a year or so, but I'm not sure it's ready in general as a replacement for yaboot yet. But at least offering it as an alternative for advanced users might be good anyway. P.S. AFAICT the current yaboot maintainer is 'Debootloaders Yaboot Maintainers Team <debootloaders-yab...@lists.alioth.debian.org>', which I can't seem to find in the list of recipients. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1279104844.515.43.ca...@thor.local
