Re: port-powerpc/40421: Files required to build rs6000 release

[Wojciech Galazka <wgalazka.dev%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-powerpc/40421; it has been noted by 
GNATS.

From: Wojciech Galazka <wgalazka.dev%gmail.com@localhost>
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, 
port-powerpc-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, 
        gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: port-powerpc/40421: Files required to build rs6000 release
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:20:29 +0100

 On 1/18/09, Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost> wrote:
  >
 > Anyway, I don't think sysinst works on systems without disk
 > (see src/distrib/utils/sysinst/disk.c:find_disks() and
 >  "MSG_noddisk" in msg.mi.en), so I think it's enough to
 > provide a ramdisk based kernel which boots up to
 > single user at this stage, like NetBSD/dreamcast.
 
 My plans are treating a rs/6000 machine as a diskless one at this
 point, perhaps later adding disk support based on MCA code from i386.
 The graphics card is indeed something IBM proprietary. Thanks for your
 comments I found these references to actual code quite useful.