Le Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 01:44:15 +0200, Sven Luther a �it: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 09:02:23PM +0000, simon@nuit.ca wrote: > > > > hi, > > > > have mac driver partitions on my drives, i *don't* need them). > > </rant> > > Agreed, still some find this more acceptable to doing a small exception > for bootloaders though. > > > 4) um, since when is quik bootable from cd? AFAIK, this isn't doable. if > > you have info on how to do this, sven, please tell us. > > Benh mentioned it to me, since he is the miboot upstream author, and the > main powermac linux kernel maintainer, i have tendency to approve him. i guess you mean you take him as a reliable source or something like that ;). ah ok. must be one of the changes he made to quik (that, and supporting kernels large than 4 MB). > > 5) yaboot2 is coming along, but too slowly to make it into sarge/stable. > > Huh, i heard about yaboot2 since over 6 month now, it was not usable > back then, and i didn't really see lots of contributors on the yaboot > mailing lists since then. well, one person who hangs out on #debianppc (arcady) has been making some progress on the fs code; he's been in school, so busy, but he's almost done that for the summer, so he'll be getting onto that - that was the main hold up really, the fs code stuff. there's prom-libc, but that's been coming along too. dunno where it's at exactly right now, you'll have to ask ethan benson. > > AFAIK this would put oldworld (at least some less borked OF/hardware > > combos, like the later pmacs (7300-9600) on more or less the same > > footing as newworld. but that's dreaming (dreaming on getting it to > > released sarge, not into the non-vapourware status). > > Yeah. which would this a moot point, but alas.. > Friendly, > > Sven Luther -- @@-----------------------------------------------------------------@@ | ,''`. http://www.debian.org/ | http://www.nuit.ca/ | | : :' : Debian GNU/Linux | http://simonraven.nuit.ca/ | | `. `' | PGP key fingerprint (new one): | | `- | 7C49 FD9C 1054 7300 3B7B | | | 8BF4 6A88 7AE2 711D F097 | @@-----------------------------------------------------------------@@
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