[Debootloaders-miboot] Bug#379855: ITP: miboot -- Linux bootloader for OldWorld PowerMac computers

[Aurélien GÉRÔME]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: debootloaders-miboot at lists.alioth.debian.org

* Package name    : miboot
  Version         : 2.0
  Upstream Author : Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
* URL             : http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debootloaders/trunk/miboot/
  Licence         : GPLv2
  Programming Lang: C / m68k Assembly
  Description     : Linux bootloader for OldWorld PowerMac computers

miBoot is not suitable for Debian in its upstream form, because it
requires prioprietary software (Metrowerks Codewarrior 4.0 Pro on
legacy MacOS) to build. Our goal is to provide a package buildable
by the GNU toolchain (a m68k toolchain on a powerpc environment). We
assembled a team for that.

miBoot is not maintained upstream anymore, so we will takeover the
maintainance. Our goal requires heavy modifications of upstream source
code, hence the version bumping compared to the former upstream 1.0d4
located at <http://penguinppc.org/historical/benh/>.

Cheers,
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