[Cbe-oss-dev] Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

[Dan Munckton]

Hi

On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 23:46 +0300, Wartan Hachaturow wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Wouter Verhelst <w at uter.be> wrote:
> >> (as Debian does not have kboot, and I presume hardly ever will).
> >
> > Why not? Non-free? Not distributable?
> 
> Because ftp-masters wouldn't allow it :)
> 
> It is basically a small OpenWRT-based system, and its building process
> includes bootstrapping a toolchain and building included/downloaded
> busybox/kernel/etc. -- which makes it a nightmare for QA. Of course,
> it should be possible to patch the build system to use system
> toolchain, Debian's kernel sources (I'm not sure kexec is tested by
> our kernel-team) and Debian's busybox, but this seems to be lots of
> work, with the resulting patchset needed to be maintained separately.
> Ubuntu chose to ignore these problems and package kboot as is. But
> that's Ubuntu, they probably do not care :))

I wasn't the person that originally packaged kboot for Ubuntu, but I was
the person who made a rookie attempt at updating it last. It was on my
todo list to see something happen about getting it packaged in the
"debian" way.

Maybe Debian/Ubuntu can collaborate to get petit-boot sorted so it can
be included in the Debian archives?

Ubuntu's PS3/Cell dev/user list is at

https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-cell

Cheers

Dan