I heard recently that Hatta Shuzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on this framebuffer support in boot-floppies . He is one of long-waiting applicant for Debian member, but his carrer in developing package at Debian JP is much longer than me, and he is one of members who worked on boot-floppies-ja (customized boot-floppies for japanese) and bootable CD-ROM for (at least) hamm-jp and slink-jp. So I think he can do something for Debian's boot-floppies.
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, at Date: 16 Dec 1999 03:16:22 -0500, on Subject: [Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Re: framebuffer, Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: adam> Anyone likely to rise to this challenge? It's gotta be done now or it adam> probably won't make it into the freeze. In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, at Date: 16 Dec 1999 02:24:05 -0500, on Subject: Re: framebuffer, Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: adam> It's all well and good to support the fbdev and all that. However, adam> unless there is a Debian-JP person actively hacking on boot-floppies adam> to get the fb / bogl stuff up-to-date and working with Michael S. and adam> getting this all working, it simply isn't going to happen. Now he seems to get success to make root disk which has fb support using jfbterm + jiskan16.pcf.gz. Maybe soon he will get success to read Japanese messages using his floppies. He wrote that he has concerned very much if the official kernel with vga16fb-support are provided, on [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. I hope that he can work with official boot-flopies team in debian-boot list, in order to enable the support of fbdev. Thanks. -- Taketoshi Sano: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
