Notes: Sorry for the thread break, but nobody respected the submitter field. Please, do not send emails to my Bitdefender email address. I have took the liberty of answering to more mails in just this single one.
În data de Ma, 26-02-2008 la 13:58 +0100, Aurelien Jarno a scris: Robert Millan a écrit : > > What is your interpretation of "We will never make the system require > > the use of a non-free component" ? > > We do not require the use of a non-free component. The qemu packages do > not depend on video.x (as it is not even packaged), and users are free > to not use qemu-system-ppc or only use it to emulate a PREP platform. > HOW does one emulate a PREP platform? If this is possible without any non-free component, then please, point me to the documentation. If such documentation does not exist, please provide it, or let's crop it now. Is an emulated PREP platform enough for starting a virtual machine and doing compiles on it in console mode? If it is, then that would be enough for me to close the bug. > I agree. But which sources? I could find references saying the problem is > > video.x won't build from source, but I couldn't find the actual source (and > > I > > looked for it in its origin at mac-on-linux project). > > You should have look better: > http://mac-on-linux.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mac-on-linux/mac-drivers/video_driver/ > See my coments below. În data de Ma, 26-02-2008 la 14:39 +0100, Aurelien Jarno a scris: Robert Millan a écrit : > > Urg, quite confusing considering the binaries are in: > > > > > > http://mac-on-linux.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mac-on-linux/trunk/mollib/drivers/ > > > > with no note whatsoever. :-( > > > > Anyway, this doesn't seem to be packaged at all? If it's just a FTBFS > > issue I > > could have a look, but adding a new package may be too much. I want > > qemu-system-ppc but not that badly. > > > > No it's not packaged as anyway it does not build. The makefile does not > seems to be compatible. Is that because the Makefile seems to be using a MAC specific encoding? Or is that beacuse of the format? http://mac-on-linux.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mac-on-linux/mac-drivers/video_driver/Makefile?revision=HEAD&view=markup It looks like, even if incompatible, it would be easy to produce a GNU make compatible makefile (or mabe bsd-make is easier?) OTOH, does compiling video.x on a Mac succeed with the CVS code? I am asking, since, if it would, then it should be possible to compile it under GNU/Linux. În data de Ma, 26-02-2008 la 14:47 +0100, Aurelien Jarno a scris: Riku Voipio a écrit : > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:24:42AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > >> What is important here is that video.x works so that users can use > >> qemu-system-ppc to emulate non-PREP PPC systems. > > > > Does this imply qemu-system-ppc works when emulating PREP systems? > > Then claiming "qemu-system-ppc is useless" is a bit extreme, no? The initial report said „provide a way to make it useful", so documenting on HOW TO actually use this command *without* video.x would be considered OK, since then I can start a powerpc virtual machine. Initially I was under the impression that the command is unusable without video.x. > Yes it does work. However it is actually useless for most people as this > platform is currently dying. That was *not* the complaint, please read the initial report[1]. The fact that the platform is lightly used/dying or something like that is not relevant in any way from the PoV of this BR. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388735#5 -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
