Re: testing beyond Intel [PATCH]
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 09:39:58PM +0100, Miroslav Kure wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:31:42PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Yeah, but not really uptodate with the current debian-installer or sarge
> > stuff. I guess nobody touched that ppc docs since the woody release.
>
> Nobody believed me when I told this months ago :-(
Yeah, well i believe everybody is working on getting d-i to work first,
and worries about the doc later on.
> Chris Tillman did some updates on powerpc, but I think those were
> still related to woody.
Ok. Anyway, things did change a lot on ppc since then, and even for
woody, some subarches were outdated.
> > Yeah, but i wanted to know if there was already someone powerpc
> > knowledgeable in that team or not. I am particularly interested in the
>
> Well, it seems currently I am the (unvoluntory) team, recently joined
> by Steinar H. Gunderson.
This is for generic d-i docs, not anything ppc specific, right ?
> 1. I'm not very good in English language (doing just small updates)
> 2. I haven't seen anything but i386 (updating only i386 parts)
Ok.
> 3. I'm not a DD (being afraid of making changes)
Not a problem, really.
> Given this, we need more manpower (ideally native speakers).
Yeah, and manpower which would not be missed by the code d-i work.
> > powerpc related details, like booting, supported arch, name of the
> > kernels, etc. I am not a particularly good english doc writer, and am
> > currently busy with the powerpc d-i support, so if i need to write doc,
> > it will come later.
>
> Generic chapters of the manual are up-to-date, but anything
> arch-specific really comes from woody times.
> I've updated some i386 bits & links, but don't count on that.
Ok.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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