Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Shawn Landden
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 08:45:50PM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: >> Sorry for jumping in. I would like the chance to complement and clarify >> some things about ppc64el platform. >> >> As Aurelien pointed out, when used in OP

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 08:45:50PM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > Sorry for jumping in. I would like the chance to complement and clarify > some things about ppc64el platform. > > As Aurelien pointed out, when used in OPAL mode, the system will boot a > system running petitboot, whi

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 11:06:08PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Aurelien Jarno, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 22:08:44 +0200, a écrit : > > On 2015-04-12 20:22, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Since petitboot runs inside a running linux kernel, that only shifts the > > > problem of booting that linux kernel :

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 06:13:50PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: >Hello everybody, > >the release date for Jessie is near, but the installation-guide >does not seem to contain any arm64/ppc64el-specific information >yet. It would be nice if those who are familiar with those >platforms could provide

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Samuel Thibault (2015-04-12): > Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 17:13:06 +0200, a écrit : > > All that contained in attached patch for review. > > The manual builds fine with it. > > Thanks, I have fixed a couple more things and commited it. > > Cyril, when should we upload an updated install

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 23:13:34 +0100, a écrit : > I've fixed these values (I hope) for armhf, arm64, mips and mipsel based > on the current kernel configurations. Thanks! Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 22:04 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 20:27:29 +0100, a écrit : > > On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 20:45 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 00:35:33 +0100, a écrit : > > > > On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 20:22 +0200, Holger W

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Aurelien Jarno, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 22:08:44 +0200, a écrit : > On 2015-04-12 20:22, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Since petitboot runs inside a running linux kernel, that only shifts the > > problem of booting that linux kernel :) > > Petitboot is the default bootloader on this machine when configure

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2015-04-12 20:22, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Mmm, the following looks like a useless addition: > > Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 17:13:06 +0200, a écrit : > > Index: en/boot-installer/powerpc.xml > > === > > --- en/b

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 20:27:29 +0100, a écrit : > On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 20:45 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 00:35:33 +0100, a écrit : > > > On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 20:22 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > > > > supports-smp-sometimes - that generation of

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 20:45 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 00:35:33 +0100, a écrit : > > On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 20:22 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > > > supports-smp-sometimes - that generation of cpu will most likely > > > fully support sm

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 17:13:06 +0200, a écrit : > All that contained in attached patch for review. > The manual builds fine with it. Thanks, I have fixed a couple more things and commited it. Cyril, when should we upload an updated installation guide to be ready for RC3? Samuel --

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 20:36:22 +0200, a écrit : > Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 20:22:49 +0200, a écrit : > > supports-floppy-boot - I think that arch has no floppy support > > Does ppc64el supports booting from a USB stick? More precisely, at the moment the only enabled docume

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 00:35:33 +0100, a écrit : > On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 20:22 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > > supports-smp-sometimes - that generation of cpu will most likely > > fully support smp, right? > [...] > > Yes. That's not the question here, see the

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 21:20:37 +0200, a écrit : > And: is there support for the graphical installer? > As far as I can see, the images do not contain the graphical > installer. See the documentation we have for powerpc: we generate only the mini GTK isos for it (on e.g. http://ftp.nl.

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 20:22:49 +0200, a écrit : > supports-floppy-boot - I think that arch has no floppy support Does ppc64el supports booting from a USB stick? Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 17:13:06 +0200, a écrit : > +arch_porturl="ppc64el" > +arch_listname="ppc64el" Please take care when updating these to be sure to understand what they mean. http://www.debian.org/ports/ppc64el and http://lists.debian.org/debian-ppc64el don't exist. Samuel --

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Mmm, the following looks like a useless addition: Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 17:13:06 +0200, a écrit : > Index: en/boot-installer/powerpc.xml > === > --- en/boot-installer/powerpc.xml (Revision 69729) > +++ en/boot

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Sandeep G.R
Lennart, Thanks for more information. I can check with Freescale running little endian on e6500. On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 07:16:50AM -0600, Sandeep G.R wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Paul Wise

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 07:16:50AM -0600, Sandeep G.R wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Sandeep G.R wrote: > > > > > I have a sid PPC64 from http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ports running on > > > Freescale Powerpc. Is their PPC64(Big

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Sandeep G.R
On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Sandeep G.R wrote: > > > I have a sid PPC64 from http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ports running on > > Freescale Powerpc. Is their PPC64(Big-Endian) for Jessie similarly? > > The PPC64 port didn't get added to jes