On (26/11/04 18:04), Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:58:48AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi, > > > > cc:s added to gain more attention, reply-to: set. > > > > On Friday 26 November 2004 10:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > i'm the current maintainer of quik, the oldworld PPC bootloader. i'm > > > currently sponsored by Jakko Niemi. there have been many code changes > > > made to it, including fixing bug #259359. for instance, initrd support, > > > using chosen/bootargs in OF, and a couple of other things. > > > > i would like to point out that the default kernel for powerpc is 2.6 and > > that > > the debian kernel packages for 2.6 need initrd support - so this is needed > > to > > be able to use the default debian kernels on oldworld (with a free > > bootloader). > > > > so this quik is desirable for d-i, too. > > > > > since it's in Section: base, and Priority: important, and there are many > > > positive changes to it, i thought it should go into > > > sarge-proposed-updates. is there any objection to this? > > > > no, but as far as i know the initrd code has "only" been tested on three > > machines: ANS, pmac 4400 and pmac 7200. If you got access to another > > oldworld > > machine please test and report it. > > Mmm, i could test it on the umax apus 2000 and on the pmac 8200/120 i have > here, need to test that this weekend. quik didn't work yet on the umax, and i > have never really used it, so some kind of help would be welcome in order to > set it up. > > Mmm, wondering if there are some kind of ps2 or usb -> adb adapters, so i > could try using the KVM switch for the apple boxes too. Hi Sven
This might help: http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?F1DS104T Regards Clive > > > > BTW, many thanks to go Peter 'p2' De Schrijver for his tremendous help in > > > making it even possible to close that bug, as it was a pretty hefty bug. > > > > yup! :-) > > > > and, better not to forget, the new quik.deb is available at > > http://www.ulyssis.org/~p2/debjes/ > > Thanks, > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]