Fedora 18 Update: SLOF-0-0.1.git20120731.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-14398
2012-09-20 05:46:00
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Name        : SLOF
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 0
Release     : 0.1.git20120731.fc18
URL         : http://www.openfirmware.info/SLOF
Summary     : Slimline Open Firmware
Description :
Slimline Open Firmware (SLOF) is initialization and boot source code
based on the IEEE-1275 (Open Firmware) standard, developed by
engineers of the IBM Corporation.

The SLOF source code provides illustrates what's needed to initialize
and boot Linux or a hypervisor on the industry Open Firmware boot
standard.

Note that you normally wouldn't need to install this package
separately.  It is a dependency of qemu-system-ppc64.

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Update Information:

This update includes a new version of SLOF, synchronized with the QEMU
1.2.0 release. It also fixes the build to actually use the same board that
QEMU implements.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #855246 - SLOF packages is very out of date with respect to what qemu expects
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=855246
  [ 2 ] Bug #855236 - SLOF package builds wrong version of SLOF
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=855236
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update SLOF' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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