<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Jean-Pierre,</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">1. Set <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 10pt;">-Bacpi-user-options=0x0 (or 0x2) during Grub boot.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 10pt;">2. Use a known good Wi-fi USB stick or daughtercard for WEP.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 10pt;">3. Use VESA for most display things.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>For the most part, most oi-devs should have working hardware with OI (or speak up, if not).</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,
'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>~ Ken Mays</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Thursday, February 13, 2014 10:21 AM, Laurent Blume <laurent+oi@elanor.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">Le 2014/02/13 16:00 +0100, Alan Coopersmith a écrit:<br clear="none">> Nearly all package systems have
repositories, what makes IPS more<br clear="none">> intolerable than the rest?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I wrote a list, but then thought again, there's no point arguing that <br clear="none">anymore. If people using it are happy with it, good for them,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> (Or had you just not noticed that support for package<br clear="none">> archives,<br clear="none">> basically tarball versions of IPS packages, was added to IPS in years past?<br clear="none">> It wasn't there in the 0.1 version used in the initial OpenSolaris<br clear="none">> releases,<br clear="none">> but that was what the kids today call "Minimum Viable Product" not the<br clear="none">> intended final state of features.)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">That touches a nerve. Back then, it was not called 0.1. It was called <br clear="none">1.0, and requests for a file format were met with derision, who would <br
clear="none">ever need that? It was certainly not part of the plan.<br clear="none">It took years just to make the devs admit it was needed, and then some <br clear="none">more to actually deliver it. I guess now it's good enough. Wonderful, <br clear="none">*finally* a round wheel!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Having been burnt there, I'd rather not see that history being rewritten <br clear="none">to make those disliking it with their good reasons look like fools.<br clear="none">Distrusting people who took half a decade to find that round was the <br clear="none">right shape makes sense.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Laurent<div class="yqt3937326515" id="yqtfd39453"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">oi-dev mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:oi-dev@openindiana.org" href="mailto:oi-dev@openindiana.org">oi-dev@openindiana.org</a><br clear="none"><a
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