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Re: Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?


On Sep 19, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Benjamin Cama wrote:


Hi,

First, let me say that I'm glad to ear from you ! I think that other
will agree too.


Let me add my thanks and "welcome back" as well!
Le vendredi 17 septembre 2010 à 22:05 +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME a écrit : 
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 02:01:52PM +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote:

Then, updating yaboot to the latest known active development branch
(http://yaboot.ozlabs.org/ ) would help a lot our port to stay alive, as 
many have noted that Debian on PPC looks a bit dead from "outside".


Indeed, I have been planning to do that for a very long time, but
interrupting any Debian activity did not help in the matter.



Hopefully, now I can manage some Debian time,



so I will update,
say this week, the package and any bits of d-i necessary for it
to work.


Very nice. Do you need help on that ?


I'm willing to help in any way I can.  In particular, testing.




Here, I am mainly thinking about RAID, LVM, and crypto
installations in yaboot-installer, as upstream did some changes in
yaboot about them.


Doesn't it seem a bit too much to do for now ? I think that what
everybody wants for now is /just/ a working yaboot.


RAID, LVM and crypto support are important.  I think we all agree.
But for the short-term, we need to get Joseph's ofpath rewrite and my ybin patches into a bootable installer "iso" so that they can be tested by a wider community. I say this because they will be critical to having a working Debian Squeeze installer for PowerPC. 

Thanks!

Rick
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