Bug#592034: O: mol
Hi! * Jörg Sommer [2010-08-08 15:47:18 CEST]: > Gaudenz Steinlin hat am Fri 06. Aug, 22:01 (-0400) geschrieben: > > Formally mol is team maintained by the MOL Packaging Team, but beside > > very few one time contributions no one other than me ever did any > > packaging work since the team was created. > > > > If noone steps up to take over the maintenance of MOL in the next week, > > I will send removal requests to ftpmaster for mol and the related > > driver packages. > > A big problem is that MOL does require a patched kernel, i.e. the module > can't be built without patching the kernel itself. Are you sure about that? I was able to build mol with module-assistent back in the days, has that seriously changed? > There was some work upstream to get MOL into the mainline kernel, but > it seems to have died. Maybe Greg Kroah-Hartman would help, but I > think the interest in MOL is near zero. I guess part of the missing interest in MOL is the lack of support for OSX 10.5 - it only supports it up to 10.4. I only found out about this after I did finish the upgrade process about two years ago, and since didn't notice any progress on these grounds. Sorry to see it go nevertheless. Was fun. Rhonda -- "Lediglich 11 Prozent der Arbeitgeber sind der Meinung, dass jeder Mensch auch ein Privatleben haben sollte." -- http://www.karriere.at/artikel/884/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100813060851.ga21...@anguilla.debian.or.at
Bug#592034: O: mol
Hi! * Gerhard Pircher [2010-08-13 08:30:23 CEST]: > Hello, > > > Are you sure about that? I was able to build mol with module-assistent > > back in the days, has that seriously changed? > > AFAIK it's a small patch to export handle_mm_fault() to modules. Here's > the corresponding Debian bug report: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=460667 Ah, right - that part. Was involved back then in the discussions to get it applied - so this isn't an issue for within Debian. If we get mol removed we might though want to tell the kernel team that they can feel free to remove that patch again if they feel like it. So long, Rhonda -- "Lediglich 11 Prozent der Arbeitgeber sind der Meinung, dass jeder Mensch auch ein Privatleben haben sollte." -- http://www.karriere.at/artikel/884/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100813063556.ga8...@anguilla.debian.or.at
Bug#592034: O: mol
Hello, Original-Nachricht > Datum: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:08:51 +0200 > Von: Gerfried Fuchs > An: "Jörg Sommer" > CC: Gaudenz Steinlin , > pkg-mol-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org, debian-powe...@lists.debian.org, > 592...@bugs.debian.org, mac-on-linux-de...@lists.sourceforge.net > Betreff: Re: O: mol > Hi! > > * Jörg Sommer [2010-08-08 15:47:18 CEST]: > > Gaudenz Steinlin hat am Fri 06. Aug, 22:01 (-0400) geschrieben: > > > Formally mol is team maintained by the MOL Packaging Team, but beside > > > very few one time contributions no one other than me ever did any > > > packaging work since the team was created. > > > > > > If noone steps up to take over the maintenance of MOL in the next > > > week, I will send removal requests to ftpmaster for mol and the > > > related driver packages. > > > > A big problem is that MOL does require a patched kernel, i.e. the > > module can't be built without patching the kernel itself. > > Are you sure about that? I was able to build mol with module-assistent > back in the days, has that seriously changed? AFAIK it's a small patch to export handle_mm_fault() to modules. Here's the corresponding Debian bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=460667 Gerhard -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100813063023.82...@gmx.net
Bug#592034: O: mol
Hello, Original-Nachricht > Datum: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 15:47:18 +0200 > Von: "Jörg Sommer" > An: Gaudenz Steinlin > CC: pkg-mol-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org, debian-powe...@lists.debian.org, > 592...@bugs.debian.org, mac-on-linux-de...@lists.sourceforge.net > Betreff: Re: O: mol > A big problem is that MOL does require a patched kernel, i.e. the module > can't be built without patching the kernel itself. There was some work > upstream to get MOL into the mainline kernel, but it seems to have died. > Maybe Greg Kroah-Hartman would help, but I think the interest in MOL is > near zero. Alexander Graf posted some patches in March that let MOL run on top of the KVM (see here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=1267872281-25512-1-git-send-email-agraf%40suse.de ) At least that makes it possible to use MOL on PPC64 machines. Also Alexander Graf was added to the list of project developers a week ago. On the other side I still use a self-compiled MOL version on my AmigaOne PPC machines (self-compiled because the AmigaOne needs a special MOL version, selected by a compile option - however I guess that could be made run-time selectable). So I would really like to see further support for MOL in Debian, but I'm afraid I lack the knowledge (in software packaging) and time to do this. Well, I hope MOL will return to Debian as soon as it fully supports KVM on PPC64 and PPC32 machines. best regards, Gerhard -- GMX DSL SOMMER-SPECIAL: Surf & Phone Flat 16.000 für nur 19,99 ¿/mtl.!* http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100812204907.107...@gmx.net
Bug#592034: O: mol
Hello Gaudenz, Gaudenz Steinlin hat am Fri 06. Aug, 22:01 (-0400) geschrieben: > As I no longer use Mac-on-Linux for myself and I no longer regularly use > my powerpc machine I'm orphaning mol. Me too. > Formally mol is team maintained by the MOL Packaging Team, but beside > very few one time contributions no one other than me ever did any > packaging work since the team was created. > > If noone steps up to take over the maintenance of MOL in the next week, > I will send removal requests to ftpmaster for mol and the related > driver packages. A big problem is that MOL does require a patched kernel, i.e. the module can't be built without patching the kernel itself. There was some work upstream to get MOL into the mainline kernel, but it seems to have died. Maybe Greg Kroah-Hartman would help, but I think the interest in MOL is near zero. Hence, I second the request to orphan MOL and remove it from Debian. Bye, Jörg. -- [dpkg] We are the apt. Resistance is futile. You will be packaged. signature.asc Description: Digital signature http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP
Bug#592034: O: mol
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi As I no longer use Mac-on-Linux for myself and I no longer regularly use my powerpc machine I'm orphaning mol. Formally mol is team maintained by the MOL Packaging Team, but beside very few one time contributions no one other than me ever did any packaging work since the team was created. If noone steps up to take over the maintenance of MOL in the next week, I will send removal requests to ftpmaster for mol and the related driver packages. Anyone willing to take over the maintenance of MOL should be willing to take mol and the driver packages. Without these mol is basically useless. The MOL kernel module currently does not build against the current Debian kernel. And MOL does not run the latest versions of Mac OS X. MOL upstream is mostly inactive. Even if I request removal the subversion archive will stay on alioth if someone wants to reupload it later. Gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100807020127.29470.93416.report...@meteor.durcheinandertal.local
