Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-12 Thread Marc McLaughlin (LUSYN)
Hi all, Out of interest, which bootloaders mentioned by Jeremy for LFS 7.0 will work with x86-64? I only managed to get my x86-64 LFS build booting with EXTLINUX. Also, is anyone interested in my build notes? I've noted the changes to the 6.3 build to get a working x86-64 build. Rgds, Marc

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
Marc McLaughlin (LUSYN) wrote these words on 05/12/08 06:39 CST: Out of interest, which bootloaders mentioned by Jeremy for LFS 7.0 will work with x86-64? I only managed to get my x86-64 LFS build booting with EXTLINUX. I really don't have a good answer to your question, as I'm guessing

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-12 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Marc McLaughlin (LUSYN) wrote: Out of interest, which bootloaders mentioned by Jeremy for LFS 7.0 will work with x86-64? I only managed to get my x86-64 LFS build booting with EXTLINUX. LILO, Grub2. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ:

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-12 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:06:59AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: Marc McLaughlin (LUSYN) wrote these words on 05/12/08 06:39 CST: Also, is anyone interested in my build notes? I've noted the changes to the 6.3 build to get a working x86-64 build. I also have the changes required to build

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jeremy Huntwork wrote these words on 05/12/08 09:28 CST: I suppose, at some point, we might want to be able to do multilib. But, at least when I started the branch, it was felt that we'd be better off just approaching a 64-bit only build. Whenever we do feel like adding multilib, build notes

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-12 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:37:24AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: I agree totally that trying to introduce multilib into LFS would be very difficult for us right now. I wasn't trying to say we should. In fact, I probably shouldn't have commented to the thread at all. But I wasn't sure if the OP

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-10 Thread Zachary Kotlarek
On May 9, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote: I haven't piped in on this at all, but I'd just like to say that I really, really want to be pro-grub2. I periodically peruse the grub-devel archives hoping to see that a 2.0 release is imminent. I find it ridiculous that there's no currently

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-09 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that the prevailing attitude here is rather anti GRUB2. Mostly because development on it seems to focus on items perceived as useless and bloat for a boot loader. I haven't piped in on this at all, but I'd just

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that the prevailing attitude here is rather anti GRUB2. Mostly because development on it seems to focus on items perceived as useless

LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bruce Dubbs wrote: In any case, I don't see a reason that there won't be a LFS 6.4 or 7.0 release sometime this summer. At the current rate, if we do LFS 7.0 this summer it would have to be sans package manager. However, x86_64 support (and PowerPC, for that matter) is pretty much ready

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-08 Thread Bryan Kadzban
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Jeremy Huntwork wrote: To be current, I'd also like to see the Udev blocker sorted out before we release 7.0. See: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2057 Since I see a mention of udev: Over the past couple weeks, I've started to

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bryan Kadzban wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Jeremy Huntwork wrote: To be current, I'd also like to see the Udev blocker sorted out before we release 7.0. See: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2057 Since I see a mention of udev: Over the past

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: In any case, I don't see a reason that there won't be a LFS 6.4 or 7.0 release sometime this summer. At the current rate, if we do LFS 7.0 this summer it would have to be sans package

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Dennis Clarke wrote: Sorry to drop in. I just wanted you to know that I was still out here working on this little embedded PPC device and that I was getting to the boot loader issue .. eventually. Don't apologize. :) Dropping in is welcome. Just FYI. Thanks for the reminder, Dennis. I'll

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis Clarke wrote: Sorry to drop in. I just wanted you to know that I was still out here working on this little embedded PPC device and that I was getting to the boot loader issue .. eventually. Don't

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Dennis Clarke wrote: you know .. I really like the atmosphere in the LFS project. Such a nice bunch of people. Oh, we've had our moments. You don't even have to go very far back in the archives to read some. :( But I think, on the whole, we all prefer a nicer, friendlier atmosphere, and we