I just installed Debian PPC64 on my PowerMac G5 and yaboot will not load the kernel. I know in Gentoo they have a separate yaboot package for PPC64 that I was able load the Gentoo PPC64 kernel with. My plan was to load the Gentoo LiveCD mount the Debian filesystem and re-run yabootconfig. However the LiveCD did not recognize the filesystem so I am out of luck.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 6, 2016, at 11:23 AM, Mathieu Malaterre <ma...@debian.org> wrote: > > unarchive 322540 > reopen 322540 1.3.17-3 > tags 322540 patch > thanks > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 6:57 PM, Lennart Sorensen > <lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: >> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 09:17:20AM -0400, wrote: >>>> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 02:07:31PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >>>> I understand your point for ppc64el, but since `yaboot` gets build on >>>> ppc64, some users may break their systems... >>> >>> According to buildd, it fails to build on ppc64 (not surprising since >>> it requires 32bit static libraries to link). yaboot does not currently >>> exist in the archive for anything other than 32bit powerpc. So there >>> is no reason for it to even attempt to build on 64bit. >> >> Well in case anyone wants to try and fix it, these patches seem to fix >> yaboot build on ppc64: >> >> diff -urN yaboot-1.3.17.orig/debian/control yaboot-1.3.17/debian/control >> --- yaboot-1.3.17.orig/debian/control 2015-11-02 02:54:41.000000000 +0000 >> +++ yaboot-1.3.17/debian/control 2016-06-06 15:36:46.000000000 +0000 >> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ >> Priority: important >> Maintainer: Debootloaders Yaboot Maintainers Team >> <debootloaders-yab...@lists.alioth.debian.org> >> Uploaders: Aurélien GÉRÔME <a...@debian.org>, Milan Kupcevic >> <mi...@debian.org> >> -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), e2fslibs1.41-dev >> +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), e2fslibs1.41-dev, libc6-dev-powerpc [ppc64] >> Standards-Version: 3.9.6 >> Homepage: http://yaboot.ozlabs.org >> >> >> diff -urN e2fsprogs1.41-1.41.14.orig/debian/rules >> e2fsprogs1.41-1.41.14/debian/rules >> --- e2fsprogs1.41-1.41.14.orig/debian/rules 2015-11-02 >> 02:20:29.000000000 +0000 >> +++ e2fsprogs1.41-1.41.14/debian/rules 2016-06-06 15:56:42.000000000 +0000 >> @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ >> >> export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS=hardening=-stackprotector >> export DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND=-fgnu89-inline -fno-builtin-malloc >> +export CC:=$(CC) -m32 >> >> %: >> dh $@ --with autotools-dev >> @@ -11,10 +12,18 @@ >> override_dh_auto_install: >> dh_auto_install --destdir=debian/tmp -- install-libs >> >> +override_dh_auto_build: >> + dh_auto_build -- libs >> + >> override_dh_auto_clean: >> dh_auto_clean >> rm -f asm_types.h public_config.h >> >> +override_dh_auto_test: >> + >> +override_dh_auto_configure: >> + dh_auto_configure -- --host=powerpc-linux-gnu >> --target=powerpc-linux-gnu >> + >> get-orig-source: >> wget >> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs/1.41.14/e2fsprogs-1.41.14.tar.gz >> \ >> -O e2fsprogs1.41_1.41.14.orig.tar.gz >> >> The fix is that since yaboot is always built 32bit, then on ppc64 we >> better build-dep on the 32bit libc headers and stuff, and when building >> the e2fslibs it has to be built 32bit, not 64bit, since yaboot is the >> only user and it is building 32bit. While at it I made it stop building >> all the other crap that wasn't actually being packaged since it was >> taking too long to build. >> >> I am not entirely pleased with the CC variable as a way to pass the >> -m32 needed, but it seems to work. Maybe someone can see a cleaner way >> (maybe the configure command somehow) to do that. >> >> I would have sent this to bug 322540 since that is the ppc64 yaboot >> bug, but for some reason it is closed and archived even though it never >> actually worked and was never actually built on ppc64. That seems like >> a mistake. > > Fixed ! I do not believe using #825110 make sense. Thanks for the patch ! >
