Seeking new maintainer for iasl

Don Dutile ddutile at redhat.com
Thu Jul 1 16:10:07 UTC 2010


Jon Ciesla wrote:
> On 07/01/2010 06:36 AM, Till Maas wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 11:52:29AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>    
>>> On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 12:49:27PM +0200, Till Maas wrote:
>>>      
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> a long time ago I packaged iasl, because it is a BR for VirtualBox. I
>>>> even received once a bug report for it, because someone used it for
>>>> something else which did not work. Since I do not know what to do with
>>>> it and I am not involved in packaging VirtualBox anymore, the package
>>>> might be better off with someone who knows more about it, because there
>>>> are still new releases made for it afaics.
>>>>
>>>> So if someone uses this package, please tell me and I will orphan it:
>>>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/iasl
>>>>        
>>> It is a BuildRequires for KVM/QEMU still.
>>>      
>> I never knew that, but I just checked and this stopped after F10 for kvm
>> and F11 for qemu.
>>
>> Regards
>> Till
>>    
> repoquery --repoid=rawhide-source --archlist=src --whatrequires iasl 
> returns nothing.  It looks like we may not need it for anything else, 
> though it may have value to developers for other things.
> 
used to decode DMAR tables in BIOS (intel-iommu cfg info) when there are
'bios features'.  

> If you don't want to maintain it, I can packagemonkey it and keep it up 
> to date, unless someone with more use for it or knowledge of it steps up.
> 
> -J
> 



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