I'm looking forward to being able to test as I have a chance.
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Phill Whiteside <phi...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > as of when the next rebuild happens [1] the kernel for ppc should now boot > okay. This has been tested with servers (G3 & G5) only and how it behaves > with the multitude of graphics cards apple shipped with their machines is > an unknown. Below is the chat I had: > > (22:55:56) phillw: xxxxx: do you know if linux-ppc [powerpc] >> (saucy-proposed) [3.11.0-0.1] is the kernel that will get ppc desktops back >> working? >> (22:56:11) xxxxx: phillw: Should do, yes. >> (22:56:27) xxxxx: phillw: I just smoketested it on my G3 and G5, and >> both work. >> (22:56:57) phillw: great, so the cron build tomorrow should put the >> ppc-lubuntu testers back in the chase? >> (22:57:45) xxxxx: phillw: Depending on how quickly I get it migrated, >> but probably yes. >> (22:58:38) phillw: xxxxx: scheduled to start at 16:29 (UTC) is that >> enough time for you? >> (22:59:22) phillw: or would you prefer an extra 24 hours? >> (23:00:43) xxxxx: Oh, indeed, it's almost a day until the next build. >> Yeah, that one should be fine. >> (23:01:31) phillw: xxxxx: okies, if you are sure, I will email the >> testers, obviously they are chomping on the bit to get back to work! >> (23:02:43) xxxxx: I make no guarantees that various DRM/KMS drivers are >> working (I don't run consoles on any of my PPC machines, they're all >> servers), but these kernels at least boot on all my kit, which is a step up >> from the previous version. :P >> (23:03:05) phillw: there's one sure fire way to check :P >> (23:03:27) xxxxx: 3.11 includes a pretty massive changeset to the radeon >> driver, so that could cut both ways. Maybe it's drastically improved, or >> maybe it has a ton of new bugs that break it on !x86... We'll see. >> (23:04:55) phillw: as always, we rely on the testers to let us know :) >> That the promise to have a kernel that at least stood a chance of working >> has been kept, they will be happy and do not 'rant' over bugs. >> (23:05:42) xxxxx: Well, I can nearly guarantee that it should boot on >> pretty much any hardware we've supported before. Between yyy and I, we have >> a pretty wide array of stuff to boot and stress test on. >> (23:05:49) xxxxx: It's just that he and I both only run headless servers. >> (23:05:51) xxxxx: So, we'll see. :) >> (23:07:07) phillw: the graphics cards that apple used were and are >> always an issue... they have gotten used to workarounds, only by letting it >> into the wild can these issues with the graphics cards be started to be >> investigated :) >> (23:07:38) phillw: xxxxx: many thanks to you and yyy for this work, I do >> know ppc for desktops is a low priority :) >> (23:07:42) xxxxx: It's not the cards, per se, it's that the radeon >> driver has become very x86-centric, and very few people care about fixing >> the PPC bugs with it. >> (23:08:09) xxxxx: nouveau seems to suffer fewer of those issues (for >> whatever reason), so the nvidia cards that Apple shipped with later G5s >> seem to be in better shape. >> (23:09:35) phillw: we're still working with G3's and g4's... as long as >> the darn thing will boot, the graphics cards could be seen as nearly a >> seperate branch of their own. >> (23:10:19) xxxxx: Yeah, I haven't tried running X on the ATi Rage128 in >> my G3 for, like, a decade. >> (23:10:38) xxxxx: I assume it probably sort of works. But I have no >> idea, and don't care, as it's a headless router/firewall in my house. :P >> (23:11:14) xxxxx: Though, the offb driver would work for boring old 2D >> X. You'd just get zero acceleration. > > > So, allow the daily to build and start testing!!! > > Regards, > > Phill. > 1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Testing#When_do_they_build.3F > -- > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa > Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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