On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:33:34PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > [snip] > > > -grub2: !hppa !ia64 m68k # bootloader > > > +grub2: !hppa !ia64 !m68k !alpha !mips !mipsel !s390 !sparc # bootloader for i386/powerpc [?] > Is a P-a-s entry some sort of a final verdict? No, but it's a fairly long-term one; when people are concerned about response time of the folks managing P-a-s, increasing churn certainly isn't advisable, and having a package in P-a-s that shouldn't be has much more of an impact than not having one listed that should be. :) > I don't think it makes sense to attempt builds of a package for some years > when it is known to fail. (Years might not be true for grub2, an example > which comes to mind is gwydion-dylan.) Agreed. I think grub2 is a bit different, because upstream is (AIUI) explicitly working on porting it to other architectures, so it bears checking with the porters first. > [snip] > > > +ree: i386 amd64 ia64 kfreebsd-i386 hurd-i386 # reads ROM from /dev/mem, i386/amd64/ia64-specific > > The description says this package "can also extract font data from video > > card ROMs." Are we certain this is specific to i386/amd64/ia64? > At least for mips/mipsel reading /dev/mem with a PC-like hardcoded > offset won't yield anything useful. Sure; but the root of this thread is a post talking about arm boards with VGA BIOS emulation, so... :) Again, worth checking with porters on. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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