On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 06:24:45PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Hello Peter, > On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 01:58:27AM +0200, Peter De Schrijver wrote: > > I'm willing to help you out on this. I have 6 alpha machines (4 of which > > are debian supported now, the other 2 are turbo channel machines for > > which I did some work to get the linux kernel to work, but they aren't > > ready yet). I also maintain the quik package (oldworld powermac > > bootloader) and comaintain sibyl (Broadcom swarm bootloader). I'm > > familiar with alpha, mips, powerpc and arm architectures. I hope I can > > help you here. > Great. Since I am not a DD, I will inform Steve Langasek, who did the > uploads and helped me a great deal with all the packaging details. > The first thing you can do is to check out our CVS from alioth > (pkg-aboot). I'll ask Steve to add you to the group and get a little > aqauinted with the source layout. Please ask if something is unclear, > ... I cannot tell you the nitty gritty source details, but the overall > layout and the purpose of the various tools/directories etc. I know. Yep, Peter is added to the alioth group (though of course, he didn't need that in order to become acquainted with the source layout :). > Out of the bugs, I'd consider #270801 the most anyoing. Unfortunately, > netabootwrap is not in the upstream source, hence we are "on our own". That one's going to become more annoying with time, since initramfs generates consistently *smaller* images in 2.6 than initrd does... > If you know how to add other FS, then #153666 might be fun for you. > Upstream is a little reluctant, though, to add more and more file > systems. Since a patch is available, the next thing would be to test, > if possible, and add it in the next upload which could deal with the > new policy version as well (haven't looked yet, what this would > require). At the very least, it would be nice to have reliable ext3 support so that we aren't obliged to use a separate boot partition from d-i. I'm not as concerned about XFS support as I used to be, since ext3 in 2.6 has all the features I wanted previously. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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