On 12/10/2010 06:21 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:42:49PM +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: >> Well, Gaudenz and Milan worked on fixing the reported RC bugs against >> yaboot. And, I'd rather thank them for that. sid's version doesn't look >> like fixing the critical problems experienced by our users. Besides, I >> don't see any bugreport of yours explaining your issue. > > Having found the bug reported upstream, fixed in 1.3.14 years ago, and > seeing how many people had made attemps at getting 1.3.14 into Debian, > there seemed to be no point filling another bug report. So I didn't > bother. I usually file bug reports, but yaboot seemed obviously futile. > I am rather surprised to see there now is a new version in unstable. > A few months too late to really help anyone wanting to run Squeeze though, > but at least in a couple of years there will be a Debian version that > might be useful for those machines. Well, the whole situation you are describing actually motivated me to do something about it. And I did what was possible to do in short period of time. > >> Any bugreport I could read? > > Well given I don't even know if an IBM p520 power6+ machine is expected to > work with Debian, I haven't filled one. I pointed out a few drivers and > other issues I hit, although they seemed to get no interest from anyone. > There is a bug report in grub2 (upstream) about the issues left to solve > for the IBM pseries servers. You have hands on that machine, I do not. Fix the issue, produce patch, we are eager to see the solution. Also take a look at this thread, we discuss about IBM p520 power6+ machine: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2010/12/msg00032.html > > grub2 does work once you manually generate the image and install it on a > boot partition, and it supports software raid (something yaboot didn't, > although it appears the 1.3.16 version now in unstable might), so it > worked out OK for me. Please provide fully working and tested yaboot 1.3.16 Debian package and propose its upload, I'm sure it will override this one. Or even better, provide fully functional grub2 package for power platform. I'm sure it will get approved quickly. > The grub developers helped fix some endianess > bugs in the md raid 1.x format handling (as well as in mdadm, which has > been fixed upstream now). To make life easier, grub needs working > handling of devices without aliases (which IBM machines don't create, > unlike apple and sun and most other openfirmware machines). I don't know > if that has been completed yet, although some work was being done on it. > I have created aliases myself for now which made grub happy. > > The bug report in grub is: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30576 > If we do not get yaboot 1.3.13a-1squeeze1 and fixed yaboot-installer bug #605932 into squeeze, it will be uninstallable, without manual tweaking, on all machines with SATA, SAS, and SCSI controllers (this includes all Mac G5 machines). All Mac G5 machines also need fixed initramfs-tools bug #603981. > I sent a question about the missing network driver and console entries in > securetty to debian-boot and heard nothing: > http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-boot@lists.debian.org/msg118643.html > FYI: a bug report #605774 regarding ehea network driver was submitted on December 03, 2010 by Xavier Grave and was fixed in SVN promptly. It will get to squeeze install CD soon. And finally we should get back to the subject of this message. Do you advocate for or against getting yaboot/1.3.13a-1squeeze1 into squeeze? Why, or why not? Milan
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