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Hi, |
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I have some wierd keyboard requirements (azerty mac keyboards), and there was a question |
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about keymaps relation to genkernel earlier on this list. I'd like to make the following |
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suggestion: |
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The ppc bootloader (yaboot) does not have an F1 option that displays help on the boot |
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options. There are some constraints on what we're able to display on boot. The matter |
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gets worse for oldworld systems, which use the bootx bootloader. From what I've heard |
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that bootloader needs to be compiled with the correct bootoptions, because apparently |
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it is difficult to set the correct ones when needed. |
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Also, there are a number of keymaps (ppc could use adb keymaps, if kernel supports it), |
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or regular x86 keymaps, so I'd adice for an app-livecd/keymapselector app rather than |
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to pass options through the kernel only. The keymapselector could for instance display |
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a menu when no kernel keymap variable is passed. I still have such a program, I used it |
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in combination with the old cursingcow installer. I think it would complicate the |
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initrd if this got added there rather than in the live environment. |
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Note that ppc currently uses only two boot options: live and live-safe. |
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live-safe is identical to live, apart from the framebuffer device used. live-safe uses |
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the openfirmware framebuffer. |
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I'm not sure what configurations syntax catalyst currently uses to install stuff in a |
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runlevel. But that will become clear sooner or later I hope. |
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Pieter |
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