Hello All, On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Frans Pop <elen...@planet.nl> wrote: > On Tuesday 21 April 2009, Frans Pop wrote: >> On Tuesday 21 April 2009, Wartan Hachaturow wrote: >> > While digging through d-i, I've noticed some signs of ppc64 port >> > (which was, as far as I remember, a heroic attempt to make a 64-bit >> > userland Debian port). >> > Do we actually need it and is anybody going to support/maintain it? >> >> It's been added in D-I on request of the ppc64 porters, but we have not >> heard anything from them for the last 2-3 years. I've looked at the >> ppc64 mailing list some time last year and to me it looked like the >> initiative was completely dead. >> >> We've always made it clear that ppc64 would have to be maintained by >> the porters. This has not been done. I currently see no keep ppc64 > reasons to --^ >> support in D-I.
I fully agree that being a dead effort it should be droped from d-i and code cleaned up. >From what I see, Wartan has a nice global view of the requirements and in case he can provide the required libraries in 64bit versions I also see no reason to continue the development of it. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org