Mathieu Malaterre wrote... > Since there has been some fuss about powerpc recently, let's see if I > can get some help on issue(s) I'd like to fix for Stretch.
Let's see what I can do (and I'm subscribed to debian-powerpc now, so no need for Cc: in the future :) > 1. Secret GRUB option in d-i. > > This is no suprise that we have a situation with yaboot in powerpc (in > particular partman-ext3 #825110). So I would like to finish the > initial work to have GRUB be an alternative on PowerMac (famous secret > option in d-i). > > Who can help me finish: > - https://bugs.debian.org/610206 (I sent a patch but would appreciate > feedback) ? > - https://bugs.debian.org/691207 ? > - https://bugs.debian.org/691209 ? I'll give it a try. > 2. offb/ATY,RockHopper: inverts red and blue in bterm > > I have not been able to make progress on > https://bugs.debian.org/825840. So if anyone is familar with > ioctl/FBIOPUTCMAP, I'd appreciate a little help here. I can confirm it's still there. Saw it when testing d-i for my recent report and was a bit confused. But isn't this rather some nice-to-have? > 3. radeonfb should be able to kick out offb > > In case (2) above cannot be solved in time. We can also fix the color > inversion another way. Technically some PowerMac uses a radeon based > graphic card, so we could fix the radeonfb module issue so that it is > properly loaded during d-i. > > So who can help me with: > > https://bugs.debian.org/826629 ? Sorry, both my boxes are nvidia. Which causes a lot of trouble, too. Christoph
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