Re: powerpc d-i daily builds reactivated, use 2.6.12 kernels, including 64bit kernels, miboot floppies dropped for now.

2005-08-20 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 12:27:51AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > Does it help to remember that SMP-safe is irrelevant to OldWorld Pmacs, > since there are none-such? Actually, there are. Apple even shipped a few of them that way, plus there were upgrade cards available. I purchased a dual 200MHz up

Re: powerpc d-i daily builds reactivated, use 2.6.12 kernels, including 64bit kernels, miboot floppies dropped for now.

2005-08-20 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 21 2005, Rick Thomas wrote: > Does it help to remember that SMP-safe is irrelevant to OldWorld Pmacs, > since there are none-such? False. PowerMacs 9500/180MP (which are OldWorld) are SMP, as the name implies. Regards, -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito

Re: powerpc d-i daily builds reactivated, use 2.6.12 kernels, including 64bit kernels, miboot floppies dropped for now.

2005-08-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 20, 2005, at 11:34 AM, vinai wrote: One thing to keep in mind is that the swim3 driver in the Old World Pmacs hasn't been properly updated for the 2.6 series of kernels. Last I checked, I think the driver now compiles, but I can't remember if it even works. I'll take a look soon. A whi

Re: powerpc d-i daily builds reactivated, use 2.6.12 kernels, including 64bit kernels, miboot floppies dropped for now.

2005-08-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 03:52:13PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Aug 20, 2005, at 4:14 AM, Sven Luther wrote: > > >Well, the sarge 2.4 miboot floppies already installs a 2.6 kernel (or > >should), > >and if what you are hinting at is on-the-fly takeover of kernels, this > >is not > >possible

Re: powerpc d-i daily builds reactivated, use 2.6.12 kernels, including 64bit kernels, miboot floppies dropped for now.

2005-08-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 20, 2005, at 4:14 AM, Sven Luther wrote: The plan is that in the year or so upto the etch release, we will trim down the 2.6 kernel to miboot-size, free miboot or find a better solution, and fix the miboot+2.6 worked once in oldenbourg 2004 and never since problem. Removing the lega

Re: powerpc d-i daily builds reactivated, use 2.6.12 kernels, including 64bit kernels, miboot floppies dropped for now.

2005-08-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 20, 2005, at 4:14 AM, Sven Luther wrote: Well, the sarge 2.4 miboot floppies already installs a 2.6 kernel (or should), and if what you are hinting at is on-the-fly takeover of kernels, this is not possible (yet :). That's exactly what I was proposing (on-the-fly takeover of kernels)

good wireless card ppc debian

2005-08-20 Thread Emmanuele Salvati
hi all, i guess there has already been discussion about it, but i need a good wireless card (by good i mean fast) that runs well with debian sarge kernel 2.6.11, on an ibook g4. can you suggest some known to work well? thanks a lot,-- emmanuele

Re: powerpc d-i daily builds reactivated, use 2.6.12 kernels, including 64bit kernels, miboot floppies dropped for now.

2005-08-20 Thread vinai
On Aug 19, 2005, Sven Luther wrote > On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 03:27:36AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> . >> >> Hmmm... >> >> Would it be possible to build a boot floppy using a fixed-config >> stripped-down version of (say) the 2.4 kernel, with just enough > > No, there will be no more 2.4 po

Re: powerpc d-i daily builds reactivated, use 2.6.12 kernels, including 64bit kernels, miboot floppies dropped for now.

2005-08-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 03:27:36AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Aug 19, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Sven Luther wrote: > > >On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 05:00:44AM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > >>On Aug 18 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > >>>I was forced to disable the floppy builds for now, since they failed >

Re: powerpc d-i daily builds reactivated, use 2.6.12 kernels, including 64bit kernels, miboot floppies dropped for now.

2005-08-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 19, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 05:00:44AM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: On Aug 18 2005, Sven Luther wrote: I was forced to disable the floppy builds for now, since they failed to build, and the 2.6.12 kernels are 200K too big anyway for miboot floppies,

Re: 64bit status report : biarch toolchain and ppc64 debian kernel.

2005-08-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:21:39AM -0400, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 10:02 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > But yes, a. is a major undertaking, and i was hoping of some automated > > method > > for generating the 64 bit stuff, maybe even in the same package. Needs some > > expe