On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 3:29 AM Dennis Clarke <dcla...@blastwave.org> wrote: > > On 11/24/19 4:06 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hello! > > > >> On Nov 24, 2019, at 4:20 PM, roberto.guardato <roberto.guard...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >> Hi Adrian, > >> i've tested the image for ppc64 on powermac G5, it has the same problem > >> installing the bootloader. > > > > Yes, as I have communicated here already I have not worked on this issue > > yet due to lack of time. > > > > But so far people keep insisting using Yaboot which is unmaintained and > > buggy instead of willing to work on ofpathname. So the ofpathname issue > > won’t be worked on until I have time for it. > > > > I don’t mean to be snarky, I’m just explaining the current situation and > > why the issue isn’t yet fixed. > > > > Yaboot isn’t an option. It’s no longer maintained, has build dependencies > > on libraries no longer maintained either and removed from Debian and also > > doesn’t support modern ext4 filesystem features. > > > > So, unless Yaboot gets a new upstream maintainer to fix all these issues, > > it’s not an option. > > > > Also, for anyone with a Mac, I have left the Yaboot images in the “10.0” > > folder. > > > > Adrian > > > > I appreciate the work that you do and wonder if I can help a bit here. > > The issue seems to be that the open firmware data is being > misrepresented or misunderstood to the grub boot loader or is there > a nice bug report somewhere I can look at ? >
You should find a portion of the history at: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=882076 Maybe Adrian has a different link, since he is in favor of patching the tool from the powerpc-ibm-utils package (my understanding is that the issue should be fixed in grub-ieee1275). > -- > Dennis Clarke > RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC > UNIX and Linux spoken > GreyBeard and suspenders optional >
