Hello Tobias Heider, While I'm as entusiastic as anyone else here, I have to ask a few questions that might be a bit skeptical below...
On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 10:00:35PM +0200, Tobias Heider wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Tobias Heider <m...@tobhe.de> > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org > > * Package name : u-boot-asahi > Version : 2023.04-2 > Upstream Authors: Mark Kettenis <kette...@openbsd.org> > URL : https://github.com/AsahiLinux/u-boot This is a development repository and things are sent upstream to u-boot (mainline). The upstreaming effort is driven by the person you listed as author (while actual authors is usually someone else AFAIK). Is there any other u-boot development forks being packaged in Debian and how viable do you think this is? Is the plan to eventually provide a migration to u-boot-asahi binary package provided by src:u-boot or how do you see the future path of this? Is this targeting Trixie or Experimental? Is there any particular reason you're targeting u-boot? Are you planning on working on any installer? Also planning on packaging linux-asahi development repo? Do you have contact with upstream about this? They have been very vocal about distros shipping things that causes additional problems for (users and then in turn for) the Asahi project in the past. (Also atleast some Asahi team members are already not publishing their development git branches because of fear of people dumping them into distros.) How does this effort compare against Thomas Glanzmann effort[1]? Do you plan to provide a migration path (and why would users migrate over to debian-bananas effort instead of Glansmanns effort)? (IMHO while Glanzmanns effort is not my preferable packaging style, it provides a very good stop gap solution until everything has been mainlined into u-boot, linux, mesa which in turn then and only then makes it ready for proper Debian packaging. Apart from mainlining work which hopefully will happen without any assintance from Debian, the biggest challange is probably to provide a sane installer solution acceptable for Debian. Is this a task the bananas team intends to take on?) Something that I think is missing in Glanzmanns effort is providing https://github.com/AsahiLinux/alsa-ucm-conf-asahi which is needed for audio out on the mic/headphone jack. Would be great if these files found a home in some existing (or possibly new) package in Debian if you're looking for somewhere to invest your time. (The alsa-ucm-conf package currently provides all files currently offered by Debian.) > * License : GPL-2 > Description : A u-boot bootloader for Apple silicon systems > [... snip generic u-boot description ...] > > u-boot is used as a second stage bootloader for Linux on M1/M2 Apple macs. AFAIK and FWIW u-boot is in this case used to provide an EFI(-like) environment (to be able to use generic distro bootloaders as the next step in the boot chain). > This will be maintained by the Debian Bananas team. I'm not familiar with this team, is there anywhere to read up on its purpose and background or maybe you can give an introduction to this team? I found https://salsa.debian.org/bananas-team which links to the InstallingDebianOn/Apple/M1 wiki page which has no information as far as I can see about the Bananas team. Regards, Andreas Henriksson [1]: https://git.zerfleddert.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/m1-debian
