Re: yaboot with updated e2fsprogs

2020-09-09 Thread John Ogness
On 2020-09-09, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I just remembered that the Yaboot package in Debian actually contains > a couple of patches which should be upstreamed. And there is also this patch, needed for many G4 iBooks: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2017/10/msg00118.html John O

Re: yaboot with updated e2fsprogs

2020-09-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Richard! On 9/9/20 5:38 AM, Richard Allen wrote: > I'm unsure if this is helpful for anyone, but I started hacking > on yaboot a few days ago for GCC10 and better ext4 support. > This boots my PowerMacG5, but I have yet to try booting a > 64-bit ext4 /boot partition - the updated e2fsprogs shou

Re: yaboot with updated e2fsprogs

2020-09-09 Thread Ed Robbins
Awesome! Notably grub can't yet boot OS X on PPC AFAIK. On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 at 09:01, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hi Richard! > > On 9/9/20 5:38 AM, Richard Allen wrote: > > I'm unsure if this is helpful for anyone, but I started hacking > > on yaboot a few days ago for GCC10 and better e

Re: yaboot with updated e2fsprogs

2020-09-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Richard! On 9/9/20 5:38 AM, Richard Allen wrote: > I'm unsure if this is helpful for anyone, but I started hacking > on yaboot a few days ago for GCC10 and better ext4 support. > This boots my PowerMacG5, but I have yet to try booting a > 64-bit ext4 /boot partition - the updated e2fsprogs shou