Hello, I'm also interested in a well-maintained PPC port because I have some Power machines (IBM, Bull) and I dont want to waste them. My dream is to have an official installer with grub2, I very miss its features at install-time. First of all, Im thinking about how to find a place for discussion.
With regards, Zsombor 2010/9/16 Benjamin Cama <ben...@free.fr>: > Hi, > > I am trying to exactly understand the bugs that currently affect the > Debian PPC port and particularly yaboot. There are many bugs around it, > but even before trying to fix them, we should check if it's even > possible to get them applied ! And as we saw (a lot due to Rick Thomas > work) yaboot is currently unmaintained and as been so for a very long > time (see http://packages.qa.debian.org/y/yaboot.html ). I am Cc'ing > Aurélien Gérôme just in case, but without much hope, and Sven Luther has > left for a long time. > > The problem is : who could take yaboot over ? There are no DD that I > know of in the debian-ppc community and yaboot is quite arch-specific. > Furthermore, I am not very familiar with how such a take-over could take > place : I've had a look at > http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa > and I am planning to write to m...@qa.debian.org, but help on gathering > information is welcome. I am also wondering if a NMU could be possible. > > Then, updating yaboot to the latest known active development branch > (http://yaboot.ozlabs.org/ ) would help a lot our port to stay alive, as > many have noted that Debian on PPC looks a bit dead from "outside". > > Another problem is that a lot of information is lost because this > mailing-list is one of the "last" place to get information about Linux > on PPC for desktop users but digging in the archives is no always easy. > I think we should try to gather information on the wiki : > http://wiki.debian.org/PowerPC > > If anyone want to help have a correct PPC port for Squeeze, please > join ! > > Regards, > benjamin > > > -- > 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/1284638512.3106.27.ca...@nsk > > -- 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/aanlktimn7d+exx6bwzlhtsupsu2yz2bm6a7wgfoez...@mail.gmail.com
