Re: [ANNOUNCE] Yaboot 1.3.11 released

[Barry C.Hawkins <barry@yepthatsme.com>]

On Nov 21, 2003, at 4:03 AM, Ethan Benson wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 12:40:24PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:24:46AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > > Yaboot 1.3.11 is now available.
> > >
> > > This release adds support for the new PowerMac G5 machines, and the
> > > aluminum PowerBooks.  Support in ofpath has been added for the SATA
> > > controller found in the G5, also add-on IDE controllers should now be
> > > properly supported.
> >
> > You don't look at the bogus /proc/scsi stuff for that, do you?
>
> in current ofpath yes, changing this requires significant rework which
> is not going to happen in the 1.x version of yaboot/ofpath.
>
> yaboot 2.0 will have a completly rewritten ofpath utility.  feel free
> to help with the yaboot 2.0 and prom-libc projects.
>
> --
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
Is there any word on when yaboot 1.3.11 will be incorporated into the 
installer?  I will run an installation on my 17" PowerBook and file an 
install report to test out the new PowerBook support.

Regards,
--
Barry C. Hawkins
All Things Computed
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