I've been playing a bit with BTS lately and I have setup powerpc & ppc64 tags on a few outstanding bugs related to PowerPC arch:
http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?tag=powerpc&user=debian-powerpc%40lists.debian.org http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?tag=ppc64&user=debian-powerpc%40lists.debian.org Here is a summary of some outstanding issues that have either been solved or are being worked on: 1. mono (http://bugs.debian.org/819711) The issue with mono on PowerPC (and ppc64!) has been found and reported upstream. I'll keep an eye on the package to check that mono on PowerPC comes back in Debian. 2. yaboot 1.3.17 (http://bugs.debian.org/819549) Thanks to Milan Kupcevic we finally have yaboot 1.3.17 in Debian ! There is still an issue with PPC64 build but a patch has been provided by Lennart Sorensen (http://bugs.debian.org/322540). 3. partman-ext3 (http://bugs.debian.org/825110) Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 6 release is currently broken as described in the bug report. But Milan Kupcevic managed to provide a work around. I've not tested but the daily installer should work, use it instead. 4. OFfb red / blue color inversion (http://bugs.debian.org/825840) Currently when using d-i the text based installation display inverted colors. I am currently tracking down why this is happening and if it possible to directly fix OFfb. There are alternatives describe in this bug tracker to fix the symptoms, namely to use radeon(fb) in place of OFfb. So d-i on PowerPC may not only be suited for color blind people after all :-) 5. partman-auto (http://bugs.debian.org/610206) By default yaboot is the bootloader on PowerPC. But there is a secret option in d-i to install grub-ieee1275 on CHRP IBM machines. I am trying to make that also an option for NewWorld Mac machines, one patch at a time. 6. r300: Visuals not found in (default) depth = 24 (http://bugs.debian.org/746272) Users of the r300 driver needed to use an old patch (http://wiki.debian.org/PowerPC/FAQ#How_do_I_get_graphics_working.3F) to get the default depth working. This has now been fixed upstream and will be part of the next mesa release. 7. No sound on PowerPC with Jessie upgrade (http://bugs.debian.org/714345) There were actually two different issues that prevented some users to have sound working. They have both been solved by Wolfram Sang (http://bugs.debian.org/714345#120 & http://bugs.debian.org/714345#161). The first one is already in linux 4.5.5, and the last patch has been tagged for stable release in linux. -M
