Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

Darren Goossens <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.alpha
Message-ID <CAKPrP8BzxTDTzG=irKGE3YUZeW24JnJ5yQOXXPw+mMLq2HtH0Q@mail.gmail.com> 
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 4:30 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I just uploaded updated installation images 2020-04-19 for the
> following Debian Ports architectures [1]:
>
>  * alpha
>  * hppa
>  * ia64
>  * m68k
>  * powerpc
>  * ppc64
>  * sparc64
>
> These images should finally fix the installation process on Apple
> PowerMacs and PowerBooks compatible with GRUB, so basically every
> Macintosh using the New World ROM [2].
>


That's great! Thanks again for all your troubles. A question: When I
last tried an install on an Alpha, qlogic firmware for the storage was
missing (eg SCSI disks, CD etc). Does the Alpha image have any new
firmware compared to the previous iteration?

Best wishes

Darren
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