> On Jul 28, 2018, at 8:45 PM, Holger Wansing <li...@wansing-online.de> wrote:
>
>
> Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org>:
>> the following memory requirements for powerpc should be documented in the
>> manual, because booting with too little memory results in strange effects /
>> error messages, which especially people new to powerpc will not understand,
>> and therefor think the installer is broken for there machine.
>>
>> d-i: recommended is 48mb, might work with less, but on newworld it sureley
>> doesnt boot with 32mb. (tested with daily cd from 2006-12-04). 64mb is still
>> low-mem.
>>
>> d-i: recommended is 128mb. works with 96mb, but partioning is buggy then.
>> (it
>> crashes and comes back, so it's usable, but really not recommended. With
>> 96mb
>> the main partition would "reliably" have no mount point set, with 160 mb
>> this
>> is no problem.)
>
> Since powerpc is no longer a release-arch, and the things are most likely to
> behave different with ppc64el, I would close this bug.
It’s not a release arch, but still maintained in Debian Ports.
Adrian
