Strange kernel message.

2008-04-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Greetings everybody, I just reinstalled Debian on the powermac7,3 dual G5 for which I often called for help on this list last year. It still freezes every second day, and I had the following message two minutes ago: Bad page state in process 'swapper' page:cfd14290 flags:0x0003b0

Boot Floppies PPC Old World Mac

2008-04-15 Thread Scott MacCallum
Greetings, I am trying to get the latest stable release of Debian PPC installed on an old world Mac. I have been following the Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/index.html.en) and in it there is mention of a boot-floppy-hfs.img file (http://www.debi

Re: Not building for powerpc any more

2008-04-15 Thread Rick Thomas
Sven Luther wrote: Notice that the description speaks about a "mature" system, i don't think that something so endian-buggy that it won't build on powerpc, and probably not also on the other bigendian arches, should use the term "mature" in its description. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: Not building for powerpc any more

2008-04-15 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 14:07 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15 2008, at 10:23 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 16:46 -0400, El Amigo De La Playa wrote: > > > -Are we talking about the death of the ppc mailing-list, or the death > > > of Debian PPC branch ? > > >

MPC8378E with Debian

2008-04-15 Thread Kysilka Radek
Good evening, I would like to ask you, if you have any experience with port Debian on to MPC8378 or MPC8378E. I bought the development kit MPC837xEMDS and would like to try port Debian on that development system. Requested devices: RTC on I2C or SPI interface USB keyboard MAC Controllers

Re: Not building for powerpc any more

2008-04-15 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, Apr 15 2008, at 10:23 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 16:46 -0400, El Amigo De La Playa wrote: > > -Are we talking about the death of the ppc mailing-list, or the death > > of Debian PPC branch ? > > Neither - as should have been clear from my previous post (?) [ ... ]

Re: Not building for powerpc any more

2008-04-15 Thread El Amigo De La Playa
Thanks, Joachim, for the clarification, as it was not clear, but it is right now ;o) Long live to PPC Debian, distro & list ! 2008/4/15, Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 16:46 -0400, El Amigo De La Playa wrote: > > -Are we talking about the death of the ppc mailing-list

Re: Not building for powerpc any more

2008-04-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 16:46 -0400, El Amigo De La Playa wrote: > -Are we talking about the death of the ppc mailing-list, or the death > of Debian PPC branch ? Neither - as should have been clear from my previous post (?), this is about the xaralx package not being built for powerpc anymore. (Can'