[Cbe-oss-dev] Bug#619236: debian PS3 installation kboot.conf needed

[Antonio Ospite]

Hi Cyril,

On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 22:21:28 +0100
Cyril Brulebois <kibi at debian.org> wrote:

> Adding -powerpc to the loop. Initial bug report:
>   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619236
> 
> Geoff Levand <geoff at infradead.org> (2013-09-04):
> > We still have a need for the kboot-utils package in debian.  Recent
> > daily builds of D-I work fine on PS3, but the installed system still
> > cannot boot due to lack of a kboot.conf file for the PS3's native
> > bootloader (petitboot).
> 
> Is anyone working on getting better PS3 support?

kboot-utils is in Debian[1] already, all that is missing is to find a
way to tell the installer:

	"if this system is a PS3, then install kboot-utils"

Can anyone suggest where this kind of logic can be added in d-i?
I didn't manage to allocate enough time to look deeper into that.

Thanks,
   Antonio

[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/k/kboot-utils.html

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