On 2/17/19 9:11 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 2/17/19 2:46 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: >> Does that mean that yaboot will not be available as a bootloader in >> some future powerpc Debian? And not being maintained anymore from then >> on? > > Yaboot is already unmaintained, the upstream git repository hasn't seen > a commit since 2011. There are multiple issue with Yaboot including the > fact that it needs an ancient version of e2fslibs to build which is no > longer in Debian. Yaboot also doesn't cope with modern ext4 features. > > Thus we're working on switching over to GRUB. I'm continuing this work > after I have moved apartments. > > GRUB already works when you install Debian's powerpc or ppc64 port on > IBM POWER hardware based on the CHRP platform. > > Thanks, > Adrian >
However having said that I have had great results from installing Debian testing/buster into a PowerMac G5 with no major issues. Sure the boot loader is a tad crusty but the machine works well enough. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional
