Re: glibc recompile - optimized for G5 cpu target

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 1:02 AM, Peter Saisanas wrote: > Hi, > This has been playing in my mind for a while and wondering if i could get > some feedback from others. > > I assume glibc typically available in the Debian repo's has been compiled > for a generic ppc32 target and the ricer in me wants

Re: glibc recompile - optimized for G5 cpu target

Hi Peter, On Jan 4, 2016, at 4:02 PM, Peter Saisanas wrote: > Hi, > This has been playing in my mind for a while and wondering if i could get > some feedback from others. > > I assume glibc typically available in the Debian repo's has been compiled for > a generic ppc32 target and the ricer i

Re: glibc recompile - optimized for G5 cpu target

Hi again. Once my Gentoo is up and running, I will have two almost independent Linux boot options. Also, I choose btrfs for my root file systems for the first time. I will be playing with making snapshots shortly. Obviously this all takes time. And the end of Christmas vacation time is coming clo

Re: Re: nouveau on G5 – trouble anyone?

Hi Andreas, I'm no expert, but perhaps a full dmesg log can help diagnose along with the output of cat /proc/interrupts. You probably already are aware of this, but make sure that nv is blacklisted as nouveau and nv conflict. Lastly, remember the hardware is over 10 y.o. it may be a hardware i

glibc recompile - optimized for G5 cpu target

Hi, This has been playing in my mind for a while and wondering if i could get some feedback from others. I assume glibc typically available in the Debian repo's has been compiled for a generic ppc32 target and the ricer in me wants to try and extract some more performance. If i were to reco

Re: nouveau on G5 – trouble anyone?

Hello Peter! Thanks for your answer. I am currently installing Gentoo Linux in a chroot from the Debian installation. X.org is actually running, and I switched to a VT which surprisingly works stable in every way. To check it, I just stopped X.org by running "systemctl stop kdm" in one of the cons

Re: nouveau on G5 – trouble anyone?

Hi Andreas, The default ppc64 kernel as supplied by Debian has been configured with 64KB kernel pagesizes. At least valid since the last time i have checked. I have been building my own kernels for a while, haven't used a default Debian kernel for a while. I believe the change to the default De

Re: Re: Moving an install between architectures

Thanks for the response, Andreas. That's kind of what I was figuring. I've transferred home directories before along with /var/mail (due to my old dovecot config) and select files in the /etc directory. It's the standard way I've migrated this "server" from machine to machine as I've used it o

nouveau on G5 – trouble anyone?

Hello! Apparently the nouveau driver does not work on my Power Mac G5. It is a PowerMac11,2 "Late 2005" model, nvidia GeForce 6600LE (128MB VRAM). PowerPC-based Macs with nvidia cards: http://mac.linux.be/content/nouveau-and-powerpc-apple-machines I found this article: http://powerpcliberation.b

Re: Moving an install between architectures

Hello Kelly! I've moved my personal desktop system from i386 (Pentium III) to ppc (Power Mac G4) to ppc64 (Power Mac G5) to amd64 (AMD Phenom 2). I used Gentoo linux though. All user data, configuration files, databases, documents etc. works like a charm on another architecture. I transferred by

Moving an install between architectures

I have a Power Mac G5 running Debian Jessie at the moment. I've been using it as my primary email (IMAP) server and name server for my home network along with a couple of other services. I have it configured with RAID 1 and an encrypted partition for system (which was very interesting to config

Midnight Commander

Hello! I installed Debian 8.2.0 powerpc on my Power Mac "Late 2005" (PowerMac11,2). The installation was only a minimal system since the mirror did not work -- which I did not notice, except that I could not select the desktop, print server, ssh etc. tasks. only a system task was visible (from th