Subject: Re: Binary packages available for 2.0
To: Michael Wolfson <michael@nosflow.com>
From: Tim Kelly <hockey@dialectronics.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/20/2004 08:18:59
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 00:02:15 -0800
Michael Wolfson <michael@nosflow.com> wrote:

> So call this a strong vote of confidence for 2.0.  No macppc-specific 
> problems other having trouble playing audio CDs (my model only
> supports digital playback) and PR 28365 abtn issues.

Nice! Can we get a code freeze on the packages?

OK, what existing PR and issues that have been identified on the list
need to be resolved before the general community would feel that the
quality of macppc is up to calling it 2.0 -release?

The issues I've been concerned with are being aggressively addressed.
Matt Thomas committed a fix for the overfilling MFS partitions, although
a different problem occurs now when the partition is 1G and overfilled.
I'm waiting on the results from one last attempt to get the second
mediabay on Wallstreets to play nicely when there is a hard drive in
place, but otherwise I've got patches for proper attachment of obio and
proper identification of the bootpath when there is more than one disk
with a NetBSD install, plus the grackel patch that was never committed.
Michael (macallan18) has a solid mesh patch for sync (leaving the
default config flags to disable this for GENERIC), and he's getting a
lot of positive results for his X patches.

The two big ones that I see are the MP kernel panics and the problem
with X when it exits. I think it'd be good to get the disklabel issue
fixed (picking up previous partitioning schemes even with a fresh
install).

Others?

tim