Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.devel.www,gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc |
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Hi Laura! Can you please mention that both powerpc and ppc64 (and even powerpcspe) are available through Debian Ports? We are maintaining installer images for ports here: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports The same applies to alpha, hppa, m68k, sh4, sparc64 and x32. Note: We don’t have installation images for some of the architectures yet, but that’s being worked on. Thanks, Adrian > On Nov 3, 2017, at 9:16 AM, Laura Arjona Reina <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello > >> El 01/11/17 a las 10:57, Jonathan Dowland escribió: >> I think the powerpc ports page needs some reworking for clarity. It >> currently states >> >> "It first became an official release architecture with Debian >> GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato) and has retained that status ever since." >> >> However the "PowerPC" architecture, which was the one introduced in 2.2, >> was dropped after Jessie, so the last supported version is Debian 8.9. >> >> The page goes on to link to some release notes[1] which reinforce this >> >> "Debian 9 regrettably removes support for the following architecture: >> PowerPC (powerpc)" >> >> Part of the confusion is the conflation of "powerpc" and "ppc64el", >> which are the relevant architecture code-names. The page does have a >> sub-heading for ppc64el specifically, but the structure implies that the >> first section ("Debian for PowerPC") is relevant to both. >> >> This may seem nit-picky but I was genuinely confused when trying to find >> out what the latest version supported for my 32 bit Power PC. >> >> P.S.: I'd make a suggested fix myself if the web sources were wiki pages >> or in git instead of CVS, but I don't have the time to deal with CVS >> right now, sorry. >> >> >> [1] >> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#idm45867730651312 >> >> > > I'm attaching a diff to the /ports/powerpc/index.wml page that hopefully > helps to clarify. CC'ing the debian-powerpc mailing list for the case > they have comments, or they prefer to do themselves a complete rewrite > of the page ;-) > > If there are no objections, I'll commit these changes in a week or so. > > Best regards > -- > Laura Arjona Reina > https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona > <index.wml.diff>