source: introduction/ppc/changelog.xml @ b021597

Last change on this file since b021597 was b021597, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

r3924@server (orig r1765): ken | 2006-06-13 13:52:38 -0700
ppc needs an ARCH=powerpc kernel (when cross-compiling), and building from an old ppc config needs some manual attention after oldconfig.

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5  %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-intro-changelog-ppc">
9  <?dbhtml filename="changelog-ppc.html"?>
10
11  <title>Changelog for PowerPC</title>
12
13  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
14  href="../x86/changelog.xml"
15  xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/para[1])"/>
16
17  <itemizedlist>
18    <title>Changelog Entries:</title>
19
20<!-- Changelog template
21
22    <listitem>
23      <para>Date</para>
24      <itemizedlist>
25        <listitem>
26          <para>[name] - Changelog entry.</para>
27        </listitem>
28        <listitem>
29          <para>[name] - Another changelog entry.</para>
30        </listitem>
31      </itemizedlist>
32    </listitem>
33
34-->
35
36    <listitem>
37      <para>June 13, 2006</para>
38      <itemizedlist>
39        <listitem>
40          <para>[ken] - Added a warning to make sure all the necessary mac drivers
41          have been selected if using an old ppc config, and corrected the boot
42          chapter to ARCH=powerpc.</para>
43        </listitem>
44      </itemizedlist>
45    </listitem>
46
47    <listitem>
48      <para>June 9, 2006</para>
49      <itemizedlist>
50        <listitem>
51          <para>[ken] - Some tidying of the additions to 'boot', corrections
52          to partitioning, tidying and correcting the final instructions for
53          making it bootable, and add instructions to boot the temporary system,
54          either from OF via OSX, or using a CD to install the bootstrap. The
55          instructions to boot from OF use an idea from Martin Schaffner's
56          lfs-from-osx hint.</para>
57        </listitem>
58      </itemizedlist>
59    </listitem>
60
61    <listitem>
62      <para>June 8, 2006</para>
63      <itemizedlist>
64        <listitem>
65          <para>[ken] - Add an appendix to discuss OF and Mac issues.</para>
66        </listitem>
67        <listitem>
68          <para>[ken] - Add hfsutils, mktemp, powerpc-utils to the 'boot' option,
69          and put in the detail for building yaboot in that chapter.</para>
70        </listitem>
71      </itemizedlist>
72    </listitem>
73
74    <listitem>
75      <para>May 10, 2006</para>
76      <itemizedlist>
77        <listitem>
78          <para>[ken] - Include the SATA patch for yaboot.</para>
79        </listitem>
80        <listitem>
81          <para>[ken] - Tidy up yaboot.conf, and drop references to pegasos ppc
82          - it seems to need other patch(es) for yaboot, and perhaps different
83          parameters in yaboot.conf.  Also spell Open Firmware as two words.</para>
84        </listitem>
85      </itemizedlist>
86    </listitem>
87
88    <listitem>
89      <para>April 27, 2006</para>
90      <itemizedlist>
91        <listitem>
92          <para>[ken] - Remove references to /usr/local from yaboot man pages.
93          </para>
94        </listitem>
95      </itemizedlist>
96    </listitem>
97
98    <listitem>
99      <para>April 20, 2006</para>
100      <itemizedlist>
101        <listitem>
102          <para>[jim] - Added asm-ppc to the Linux Headers.</para>
103        </listitem>
104      </itemizedlist>
105    </listitem>
106
107    <listitem>
108      <para>March 31, 2006</para>
109      <itemizedlist>
110        <listitem>
111          <para>[ken] - Add alternative command (mkofboot) to install yaboot
112          onto an unformatted partition, thanks to Dragos Ionita for reporting
113          the need for this.</para>
114        </listitem>
115      </itemizedlist>
116    </listitem>
117
118    <listitem>
119      <para>December 19, 2005</para>
120      <itemizedlist>
121        <listitem>
122          <para>[ken] - Remove -D_GNU_SOURCE from final build of patch.</para>
123        </listitem>
124      </itemizedlist>
125    </listitem>
126
127    <listitem>
128      <para>November 20, 2005</para>
129      <itemizedlist>
130        <listitem>
131          <para>[jim] - Updated to parted 1.6.25.1.</para>
132        </listitem>
133      </itemizedlist>
134    </listitem>
135
136    <listitem>
137      <para>November 17, 2005</para>
138      <itemizedlist>
139        <listitem>
140          <para>[ken] - Use a smaller and better patch for powerpc-utils.</para>
141        </listitem>
142      </itemizedlist>
143    </listitem>
144
145    <listitem>
146      <para>November 5, 2005</para>
147      <itemizedlist>
148        <listitem>
149          <para>[ken] - Add example yaboot.conf.</para>
150        </listitem>
151      </itemizedlist>
152    </listitem>
153
154    <listitem>
155      <para>November 4, 2005</para>
156      <itemizedlist>
157        <listitem>
158          <para>[ken] - Add hfsutils and powerpc-utils, needed by yaboot.</para>
159        </listitem>
160      </itemizedlist>
161    </listitem>
162
163    <listitem>
164      <para>October 31, 2005</para>
165      <itemizedlist>
166        <listitem>
167          <para>[jim] - Now an official project. Resetting all Changelogs.</para>
168        </listitem>
169      </itemizedlist>
170    </listitem>
171
172  </itemizedlist>
173
174</sect1>
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