Re: Lam2 on PowerPC

1999-10-23 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! There is a known bug in the latest upstream stable lam, which it sounds like you're running into here. The developers have sent me a beta, which works great here. The have asked me to wait for their next stable release before uploading to Debian. I just sent them a followup note on t

Incorrect loop generation code generated by gcc-2.95.2 configured for PPC target (powerpc-rtems) (extracted directly from cvs the 21/10/99)

1999-10-23 Thread Valette Eric
This bug is present in gcc-2.95.1 and in the gcc snapshot extracted the 21 th October from CVS with the correct gcc-2.95.2 branch tag. Attached with this mail you will find : 1) The C code that triggers the bug (standalone so that you can regenerate it) 2) The side by side asm code

Re: X patches

1999-10-23 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote: > I will try, but my computer died last weekend, i will maybe get a new one this Poor boy... > afternoon, but it is not guaranteed it will work for me. Having an amiga > formatted harddisk, also poses problems when trying to read the partition from > anothe

Re: X patches

1999-10-23 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 09:22:48AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 10:23:10AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > > > > > Notice this are all debian patches, not only the one for powerpc. They >

Re: potato boot-floppies for powerpc uploaded

1999-10-23 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > >My beige G3 contains "Power Macintosh" in the "model" property, My > > >wallstreet > > >PowerBook contains "PowerBook" and an iMac I have here returns "iMac". > > > > > >I beleive you should also check the device tree's "compatible" property and > >

Re: will PPC installer work with DOS partition tables

1999-10-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On 23/10/99 Jeramy B Smith wrote: I'm not under the opinion that all software should be free, BUT I was also dismayed that I needed a MacOS partition to boot my beige g3 desktop. partly its non free, mostly because its a big waste of space for a useless OS I have no interest in using. beside

Re: will PPC installer work with DOS partition tables

1999-10-23 Thread Jeramy B Smith
> The reason I ask is it looks as if the newer macs OF is broken in > such a way that it will require a partition dedicated to holding the > boot loader (if you want to get rid of non-Free macos) I'm not under the opinion that all software should be free, BUT I was also dismayed that I needed a M

Re: will PPC installer work with DOS partition tables

1999-10-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On 22/10/99 Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: To do so actually would be trivial. And I like that idea. Millions of idiots have 540M dos disks or something lying around, DOS is pretty widely accepted unfortunately, and ext2's one of those oddball filesystems like XFS only ext2 sucks more. (I WANT EXT3 NO

Re: will PPC installer work with DOS partition tables

1999-10-23 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
Ethan Benson wrote: > > Hello, > > Does the Debian PPC installer work OK with DOS partition tables? as > in the same partition tables we use on intel machines? > > The reason I ask is it looks as if the newer macs OF is broken in > such a way that it will require a partition dedicated to holdin

Re: Incorrect optimization on PowerPC due to volatile keyword (gcc-2.95.1 official)

1999-10-23 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
VALETTE Eric wrote: > > Environment information > --- > 53 powermac1:/tmp->uname -a > Linux powermac1 2.2.12 #1 Sat Sep 4 17:53:53 MDT 1999 ppc unknown > 54 powermac1:/tmp->gcc -v > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-linux/2.95.1/specs > gcc version 2.95.1 19990816 (re

will PPC installer work with DOS partition tables

1999-10-23 Thread Ethan Benson
Hello, Does the Debian PPC installer work OK with DOS partition tables? as in the same partition tables we use on intel machines? The reason I ask is it looks as if the newer macs OF is broken in such a way that it will require a partition dedicated to holding the boot loader (if you want t