Re: [Debootloaders-yaboot] Bug#587290: How does linux-base modify /etc/yaboot.conf ?

2010-09-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 13:56 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: [...] > >> And this script > >> adds spaces and quotes around key/value pairs and let /dev/disk/by-* > >> names. This is not compatible with yaboot. > > > > Which of those things is not compatible with yaboot? > > > It's not yaboot per-se that

Re: Re: Debian powerpc binary compatibility?

2010-09-18 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi, > However, the auxiliary math routins in libgcc.a (.so) will be the same, and > not optimized for the given CPU type. > Gcc compiler should be build with "multilib" support enabled, in this case > the build provides specialized libgcc.a and startup .o modules for each > possible "-mcpu", in

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

2010-09-18 Thread Gary
WoL should work on any hardware that will run Tiger or higher. Below is the only documentation I could find and it's not very specific as to what's considered 'modern' hardware. -Gary "Modern Mac hardware features integrated Wake-on-LAN functionality, controlled via the OS X System Preferences E

Re: [Debootloaders-yaboot] Bug#587290: How does linux-base modify /etc/yaboot.conf ?

2010-09-18 Thread Rick Thomas
Comments in-line below... On Sep 18, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 15:44 +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: Le jeudi 16 septembre 2010 à 15:12 +0200, Benjamin Cama a écrit : You mentioned that linux-base may modify /etc/yaboot.conf. I think it might be the culprit for

Re: How does linux-base modify /etc/yaboot.conf ?

2010-09-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 15:44 +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: > Le jeudi 16 septembre 2010 à 15:12 +0200, Benjamin Cama a écrit : > > You mentioned that linux-base may modify /etc/yaboot.conf. I think it > > might be the culprit for this bug, but I would first like to know how > > and why it does that ?

Re: Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?

2010-09-18 Thread Gary Driggs
On Sep 18, 2010, at 1:07 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > I have a variety of PowerPC Macs, ranging from a couple of OldWorld "beige" > 300MHz G3 machines to a dual-processor 2GHz G4 (No G5 hardware, sadly). I'm available to test on my G4 mini at home & one of the G5s at my office. Great teamwork & per

(Debian powerpcspe install

2010-09-18 Thread Sergei Poselenov
Hello again, Sebastian, A question regarding the Debian installation to e500 system: As I understand, standard Debian powerpc won't work on e500 because of "lwsync" problem, right? Here are the instructions on how to boot you e500 machine: http://wiki.debian.org/PowerPCSPEPort#Installingtheport

Re: Re: Debian powerpc binary compatibility?

2010-09-18 Thread Sergei Poselenov
Hello Xavier, > 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 pac

Re: Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?

2010-09-18 Thread Rick Thomas
I have a variety of PowerPC Macs, ranging from a couple of OldWorld "beige" 300MHz G3 machines to a dual-processor 2GHz G4 (No G5 hardware, sadly). All of them can be diverted from their production uses for long enough to run an installation or a simple set of tests. As with Zsombor, I don

Re: Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?

2010-09-18 Thread Jeroen Diederen
This is great news! Op 17/9/2010 schreef "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 hav

Re: Rewrite of ofpath

2010-09-18 Thread Rick Thomas
Joseph, I've looked over your rewrite of ofpath, and I must say that I'm impressed. The code is clear, straightforward, and easy to follow. There may still be bugs (I'm not enough of a Linux kernel or Open Firmware guru to tell if it crosses all the "t"s and dots all the "i"s) but if th

Re: Debian powerpc binary compatibility?

2010-09-18 Thread Sergei Poselenov
Hello Sebastian, Thanks for reply! Please see my comments below. On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:19:29 +0200 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > * 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