[Debootloaders-yaboot] Bug#461310: Bug#461310: yaboot: Yaboot does not allow > 6MB TFTP transfers, yet Debian netboot install image is > 6MB

[Aurélien GÉRÔME]

tags 461310 fixed-upstream
thanks

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:32:16PM -0500, Livio Soares wrote:
>   I've been trying to netboot a G5 box with the default Debian net-install
> (powerpc64) yaboot and vmlinux images. However, it seems that the Debian
> vmlinux images are > 6MB. A well known traditional limitation of yaboot has
> been the fact that it's TFTP buffer size could not be bigger than 6MB.

I schedule an upgrade to the latest stable release which will include
the fix for this bug. It will be announced on debian-powerpc for
testing during one week, and then uploaded to unstable.

On a side note, I will also upload git snapshots to experimental,
as I recently gained DM rights.

Cheers,
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