Re: Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?

2010-09-17 Thread Zsombor
Hello All, 2010/9/17 Aurélien GÉRÔME : > > I miss some physical 64-bit hardware to test it, mainly access to > pSeries, but I guess people on this list will be able to test d-i > images before I can submit changes, won't they? > I also have some 64bit Power HW to test (IBM and Bull machines), may

Re: Debian powerpc binary compatibility?

2010-09-17 Thread Xavier Grave
may be you can try apt-build ? $ cat /etc/apt/apt-build.conf build-dir = /var/cache/apt-build/build repository-dir = /var/cache/apt-build/repository Olevel = -O3 march = -march=pentium2 mcpu = -mcpu=pentium2 options = As you can see, there you can rebuild packages in an automatic way with whatev

Re: Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?

2010-09-17 Thread Xavier Grave
original message- De: "Aurélien GÉRÔME" a...@debian.org A: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:05:55 +0200 - > > I miss some physical 64-bit hardware to test it, mainly access to > pSeries

Re: Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?

2010-09-17 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi, I'm using the ppc port (VME boards and Power5 Power5+ and Power6 systems) and I'd like to help. I'm not a DD but I have upload rights because of my DM status (I maintain and co maintain a few packages related to Ada). I'm mainly an Ada and C developer. Hope it will help, xavier

Re: Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?

2010-09-17 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
Hi there, On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 02:01:52PM +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: > Then, updating yaboot to the latest known active development branch > (http://yaboot.ozlabs.org/ ) would help a lot our port to stay alive, as > many have noted that Debian on PPC looks a bit dead from "outside". Indeed, I

Re: Setup WOL (Wake On LAN) on PPC (MacMiniG4)

2010-09-17 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, On 17 Sep, this message from Mathieu Malaterre echoed through cyberspace: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Cédric Boutillier > wrote: >> I am not sure the Macs can be 'woken up' using WOL if they were >> switched off (even from Mac OS). At least, this is my experience with >> iBooks and iM

Re: Debian powerpc binary compatibility?

2010-09-17 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
* Sergei Poselenov | 2010-09-17 13:48:19 [+0400]: >Could you please answer some questions, regarding the use of the >Debian powerpc distro for embedded PowerPC system? > >- What exact target CPU it is built for? I see here > http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/install the list of > support

Re: Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?

2010-09-17 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Benjamin Cama's message of Don Sep 16 14:01:52 +0200 2010: > Hi, > > I am trying to exactly understand the bugs that currently affect the > Debian PPC port and particularly yaboot. There are many bugs around it, > but even before trying to fix them, we should check if it's even > pos

Re: netbooting

2010-09-17 Thread Gunther Furtado
hi, 2010/9/17 Benjamin Cama : > Hi, > > Le vendredi 17 septembre 2010 à 07:31 -0300, Gunther Furtado a écrit : >> I've compiled yaboot from >> http://yaboot.ozlabs.org/snapshots/yaboot-1.3.15-rc.tar.gz >> and copied to the server's /tftpboot directory and... it works! It >> takes a lot longer to g

Re: Debian powerpc binary compatibility?

2010-09-17 Thread brian m. carlson
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 01:48:19PM +0400, Sergei Poselenov wrote: > - What exact target CPU it is built for? I see here > http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/install the list of > supported machines, but how can I understand will the Debian binaries > work on my board with the specific C

Re: Setup WOL (Wake On LAN) on PPC (MacMiniG4)

2010-09-17 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Cédric Boutillier wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:54:46AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> [...] >> However afert a shutdown (sudo poweroff), I can not wake the machine >> up. I double-check the Mac adress twice, and I can wake up the >> Intel-Based P

Re: netbooting

2010-09-17 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le vendredi 17 septembre 2010 à 07:31 -0300, Gunther Furtado a écrit : > I've compiled yaboot from > http://yaboot.ozlabs.org/snapshots/yaboot-1.3.15-rc.tar.gz > and copied to the server's /tftpboot directory and... it works! It > takes a lot longer to get to bootprompt but it works. I've al

Re: Setup WOL (Wake On LAN) on PPC (MacMiniG4)

2010-09-17 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi, On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:54:46AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > [...] > However afert a shutdown (sudo poweroff), I can not wake the machine > up. I double-check the Mac adress twice, and I can wake up the > Intel-Based PC right next to it... I am not sure the Macs can be 'woken up' usin

Re: netbooting

2010-09-17 Thread Gunther Furtado
Em Mon, 6 Sep 2010 14:55:19 -0700 Gary Driggs escreveu: > The netboot iso from stable, after choosing advanced options, will > allow you to select an unstable, testing, or stable distro for > installation. > There is another way! I've compiled yaboot from http://yaboot.ozlabs.org/snapshots/ya

Debian powerpc binary compatibility?

2010-09-17 Thread Sergei Poselenov
Hello all, Could you please answer some questions, regarding the use of the Debian powerpc distro for embedded PowerPC system? - What exact target CPU it is built for? I see here http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/install the list of supported machines, but how can I understand will th

Setup WOL (Wake On LAN) on PPC (MacMiniG4)

2010-09-17 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Dear debian user, I am trying to get WOL (Wake On LAN) working on my MacMiniG4/ppc. ethtool reports something that looks right: $ sudo ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 10