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From: Xavier Neys <neysx@g.o>
Subject: Re: [patch] integrate ia64 bootloader into common
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 17:29:46 +0200

 1.1

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Xavier Neys wrote:
>> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> so which is ?  first people complain when i made ia64 specific documents,
>>> now people complain when i try to combine them
>> Nothing's changed. ARCH-specific files that have hardly anything in common
>> with other files are fully justified. This applies to
>> hb-install-ia64-bootloader.xml: no framebuffer, no gub, no lilo, and elilo
>> which is ia64-only.
> 
> not quite:
>  - ia64 does support framebuffer console

You never mentioned this and your original did not document the framebuffer.
I made it look like the AMD64 version, if it needs to be different, please let
us know.

>  - grub will have ia64 support (it doesnt at the moment)
>  - elilo is not (and hasnt been for quite sometime) ia64 specific

At the moment, it's very much (elilo==IA64).

> so if you want to keep the status quo now, fine, but i'm looking long term 
> here

We'll change whatever needs to be changed then, maybe even with some kind of
include foo, thought process is still running ;-)

BTW, do you still want the IA64 handbook to be "hidden" or can we index it
like the others?


Cheers,
-- 
/  Xavier Neys
\_ Gentoo Documentation Project
/
/\ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/

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