If powerpc were actually getting that type of testing, these bugs wouldn't be showing up. There's nothing about being a port that makes it any harder to support. Community members are able to contribute to the toolchain, the kernel, etc., as well as doing the testing.
What we really need on ppc is folks who are brave enough to run the bleeding edge distros from nearly the beginning of the cycle and the willingness to try and fix problems like these. The last set of us doing this have largely switched from x86. 2007/12/20, Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi. > > On 12/20/2007 01:36 PM, Andrew Roazen wrote: > > Seconded. Is this considered unimportant, or is it actually complex? I have > > an > > iMac I'd like to gift with Gutsy on it, but it's a no-go until it actually > > boots. > > I'm on the same boat: I have an iBook G3 that is a fine computer and is > running > proprietary software right now, but I would love to have the flexibility of > using Free Software, as an enthusiast. > > I think that, in this case, using Debian proper would be a good compromise. I > would miss the Ubuntu-ness and all the convenience of an end-user > distribution, > but if Ubuntu doesn't work, what can exactly I do? > > Changing the initrd so that it can boot on all those machines that were > "orphaned" by Apple in their latest Operating System is a priority that I > thought that would be taken into consideration for the Gutsy release (here, > the > installed distribution didn't work since Feisty). > > Anyway, if there are proposals from the Ubuntu developers to have powerpc > become > a non-port again, I think that many people would contribute with the core team > to have one very good distribution working with machines that were ignored > otherwise. > > Regards, > > -- > Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 > http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito > Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org > > -- > IDE drivers not loaded at boot with powerpc > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/126337 > You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu > PowerPC Architecture Team, which is a bug assignee. > -- Jeff Bailey - http://www.raspberryginger.com/jbailey/ -- IDE drivers not loaded at boot with powerpc https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/126337 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
