Re: yaboot with updated e2fsprogs

2020-09-12 Thread Richard Allen
> And there is also this patch, needed for many G4 iBooks: Thanks John, I'm unsure how to reproduce the issue Tony Breeds was worried about as kernel sizes have roughly doubled in the past three years. It is merged and tested against my dual-G5. If this causes an issue for anyone else we can look

Re: yaboot with updated e2fsprogs

2020-09-12 Thread Richard Allen
Hi Adrian, > I just remembered that the Yaboot package in Debian actually contains a couple > of patches which should be upstreamed. I have merged the Debian patches except for branding. Currently, I'm building e2fsprogs from source as a submodule since I needed to disable some features to get i

Re: yaboot with updated e2fsprogs

2020-09-10 Thread Richard Allen
John, Adrian, I have compiled your patches into a pair of branches, and will look at merging them soon. -Richard -Richard

Re: yaboot with updated e2fsprogs

2020-09-09 Thread John Ogness
On 2020-09-09, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I just remembered that the Yaboot package in Debian actually contains > a couple of patches which should be upstreamed. And there is also this patch, needed for many G4 iBooks: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2017/10/msg00118.html John O

Re: yaboot with updated e2fsprogs

2020-09-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Richard! On 9/9/20 5:38 AM, Richard Allen wrote: > I'm unsure if this is helpful for anyone, but I started hacking > on yaboot a few days ago for GCC10 and better ext4 support. > This boots my PowerMacG5, but I have yet to try booting a > 64-bit ext4 /boot partition - the updated e2fsprogs shou

Re: yaboot with updated e2fsprogs

2020-09-09 Thread Ed Robbins
Awesome! Notably grub can't yet boot OS X on PPC AFAIK. On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 at 09:01, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hi Richard! > > On 9/9/20 5:38 AM, Richard Allen wrote: > > I'm unsure if this is helpful for anyone, but I started hacking > > on yaboot a few days ago for GCC10 and better e

Re: yaboot with updated e2fsprogs

2020-09-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Richard! On 9/9/20 5:38 AM, Richard Allen wrote: > I'm unsure if this is helpful for anyone, but I started hacking > on yaboot a few days ago for GCC10 and better ext4 support. > This boots my PowerMacG5, but I have yet to try booting a > 64-bit ext4 /boot partition - the updated e2fsprogs shou

yaboot with updated e2fsprogs

2020-09-08 Thread Richard Allen
I'm unsure if this is helpful for anyone, but I started hacking on yaboot a few days ago for GCC10 and better ext4 support. This boots my PowerMacG5, but I have yet to try booting a 64-bit ext4 /boot partition - the updated e2fsprogs should support it though. It's still a little kludgy, but it's he