Yes thank you again! Sent from my iPhone
> On Jun 7, 2016, at 6:28 AM, Brock Wittrock <brockwittr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just wanted to say thanks Matheiu for all of your work with PPC and staying > on top of a lot of these bugs! > > Brock > >> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 2:33 AM, luigi burdo <intermedi...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> Mathieu, >> add this news too. >> finally fixed qemu on powerpc working with sdl2 and gtk3 with gl=on >> enabled. >> next git will be update with the code patch >> >> Luigi >> >> > From: ma...@debian.org >> > Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 08:41:14 +0200 >> > Subject: Misc PowerPC News >> > To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org >> >> > >> > 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 >> > >
