On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Christoph Biedl <debian.a...@manchmal.in-ulm.de> wrote: > 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?
True. But keep in mind that this will be the very first screen users will see. >> 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
