Re: PowerPC roadmap for Stretch

[Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>]

Ben,

On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 9:16 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On 10/03/2016 09:14 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>> You need to consider that d-i only ships radeonfb (there is another
>> bug report from milan@d.o requesting it) about that. So the question
>> is really during d-i should we leave it as-is with a very low level
>> offb, or try to tidy up radeonfb (radeon.ko will never be part of d-i,
>> there is also a long thread about this).
>
> Can you point me to the discussion regarding radeon in d-i? I would be
> curios to know what the problem is.

>From the top of my head I remember a mail (from you) where you gave
some details as to why radeon.ko is not present in during d-i (only
radeonfb.ko is). However today I can only find:

https://bugs.debian.org/782058#51

I thought you mentioned some kind of regression, hence the reason to
not ship radeon.ko during debian installation.

Do you remember saying that, or am I dreaming ?

Thanks much !