Brief update on Fedora 17 and plans

[Peter Lemenkov]

2012/3/2 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch at redhat.com>:

> As we're closing in on Fedora 17 Alpha now i also wanted to give a quick
> heads up about the yaboot to grub2 switch we're doing for Fedora 17. As you
> might know we've originally planed it for Fedora 16. Patches had been
> submitted upstream by IBM for that, but they didn't make it into a release
> in time. So we decided to pull the plug for the grub2 switch for Fedora 16
> and focused on stabilizing Fedora on Power for that release which we think
> really paid off.

I've got several patches for grubby for supporting grub2 on ppc which
I even sent to the grubby maintainer (still not applied). I can
confirm it works well on my Mac Mini G4 (I'm still using it as a
primary home-office platform).

-- 
With best regards, Peter Lemenkov.