Re: PowerPC roadmap for Stretch
On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 02:16:56PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Since there has been some fuss about powerpc recently, let's see if I
> can get some help on issue(s) I'd like to fix for Stretch.
>
> If anyone is able to provide help with any of the following, please do
> contact me !
>
> 1. Secret GRUB option in d-i.
>
> This is no suprise that we have a situation with yaboot in powerpc (in
> particular partman-ext3 #825110). So I would like to finish the
> initial work to have GRUB be an alternative on PowerMac (famous secret
> option in d-i).
>
> Who can help me finish:
> - https://bugs.debian.org/610206 (I sent a patch but would appreciate
> feedback) ?
> - https://bugs.debian.org/691207 ?
> - https://bugs.debian.org/691209 ?
>
> 2. offb/ATY,RockHopper: inverts red and blue in bterm
>
> I have not been able to make progress on
> https://bugs.debian.org/825840. So if anyone is familar with
> ioctl/FBIOPUTCMAP, I'd appreciate a little help here.
Potential patch sent to that bug.
> 3. radeonfb should be able to kick out offb
>
> In case (2) above cannot be solved in time. We can also fix the color
> inversion another way. Technically some PowerMac uses a radeon based
> graphic card, so we could fix the radeonfb module issue so that it is
> properly loaded during d-i.
>
> So who can help me with:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/826629 ?
I sent something that might help fix that to the bug too.
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Len Sorensen
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