Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

[Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>]

Scripsit Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>

> I thin you don't understand which kind of reverse engineering I'm
> talking about. I'm afraid I am not able to be any clearer without
> repeating myself.

Um, sorry for temporarily misplacing my temper here. I see now that I
have indeed expressed myself ambguously. I originally wrote something
like

     Before we begin a clean-room reimplementation, we should ask
     Apple for permission to do foo.

Most readers have understood that to mean "we cannot do a clean-room
reimplementation without permission to do foo", and tried to tell me
that this is wrong, which indeed it is.

What I really meant was

     Doing foo is easier and safer than a clean-room reimplementation,
     but would need permission from Apple. We should not begin
     spending effort on a clean-room reimplementation until we have
     reason to believe that Apple won't let us do foo instead.

Does that make my subsequent comments clearer?

-- 
Henning Makholm                           "og de står om nissen Teddy Ring."