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[powerpc] simplifying and updating http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status



Hi,

http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status is IMHO a bit 
confusing and missing some infos:

- for oldworld cd- and net-booting a note should be added: "needs booting from 
OpenFirmware" (this is currently not described in the manual - if it's added 
(it's on my list for today to properly document it, so it can be added), IMHO 
a link to the relevant section in the manual should be added as well, or not)

- apple g5 is available now (in sarge or sid) ?! afaik it takes the power4 
kernel and the powerpc userland ?!

- notes should be added to power3 rs6k and power4 rs6k: 32bit mode only.
- "power3 IBM rs6k" and "power4 IBM rs6k" use the same images, merge them into 
one subarch column

- d-i for IBM pseries is available and uses the same Images as power4 -> merge 
them into one subarch column

- "powerpc ibm rs6k" uses the same images as "chrp" -> merge them into one 
subarch column

- power3 IBM RS6000 netboot rc3-link is broken: typo: "netboo" :)

- mention the unsupported rs6k models as notes.


Please correct my assumption or confirm them! 

I'll will provide a proper patch (to the wml-source) for another round of 
reviews when these questions are clear...


regards,
	Holger

<p2-mate> afaik the following rs6ks exist :
<p2-mate> power 1 - MCA 
<p2-mate> power 2 - MCA
<p2-mate> ppc32 - MCA
<p2-mate> ppc32 - prep
<p2-mate> ppc32 - chrp
<p2-mate> power3 - chrp ?
<p2-mate> power4 - ?
<p2-mate> power5 - ?
<p2-mate> anything - MCA is not supported 
<p2-mate> as in no kernel :)
<h01ger> afaik d-i doesnt support mca, not really sure about ppc32-prep
<p2-mate> linux kernel doesn't support mca either so :)

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