Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 6:36 PM, wrote: > Hi Hiroyuki, > > Thanks for your answer (and for all answers that followed). These are very > good news for me. > >> So, I'm planning that almost all ppc64 binary packages will be rebuilt >> as binNMU. >> I have already given binNMU command for only ppc64

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread wbonnet
Hi Hiroyuki, Thanks for your answer (and for all answers that followed). These are very good news for me. So, I'm planning that almost all ppc64 binary packages will be rebuilt as binNMU. I have already given binNMU command for only ppc64 port to wanna-build DB at the last Friday, but there a

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Breno Leitao
Hi, On 03/30/2016 02:13 PM, wbon...@theitmakers.com wrote: >> Do you mean setting "-mno-altivec" as a generic compiler flag for ppc64? > > Yes, that's what i mean. "-mno-altivec" and maybe some other "-mno-something" > flags, so it could run on any PPC64 cpu, even if it does not have > altivec/v

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 07:13:49PM +0200, wbon...@theitmakers.com wrote: > Yes, that's what i mean. "-mno-altivec" and maybe some other > "-mno-something" flags, so it could run on any PPC64 cpu, even if it does > not have altivec/vmx, or if it does not have the optional opcodes of the > PPC64 stan

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:06:36PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: > I am wondering if you cannot try to mimic this non-VMX CPU on QEMU using > -cpu. > > Running "$ qemu-system-ppc -cpu help" shows a lot of CPUs that are supported > in > QEMU. I am still not sure if we can exploit KVM if we use a di

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread wbonnet
Hi, Le 30.03.2016 17:09, Breno Leitao a écrit : Hi Mathieu, On 03/30/2016 05:40 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: So i would like to know what is the target, and if it is possible to consider supporting the "most generic PPC64 target", just like it is done for x86 archs ? Do you mean setting "-mn

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread luigi burdo
the best is without altivec at all. here on P5020 many programs icewasell too crash because altivec luigi Inviato da iPad > Il giorno 30 mar 2016, alle ore 17:27, Breno Leitao ha > scritto: > > Hi Mathieu, > > On 03/30/2016 05:40 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >>> So i would like to know what

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Breno Leitao
Hi Mathieu, On 03/30/2016 05:40 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> So i would like to know what is the target, and if it is >> possible to consider supporting the "most generic PPC64 target", just >> like it is done for x86 archs ? Do you mean setting "-mno-altivec" as a generic compiler flag for pp

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Breno Leitao
Hi Lennart, On 03/30/2016 11:30 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Certainly. And getting access to one of the ones that causes trouble > by not having VMX seems even harder in fact. I am wondering if you cannot try to mimic this non-VMX CPU on QEMU using -cpu. Running "$ qemu-system-ppc -cpu help"

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 04:41:40PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Lennart Sorensen > wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 04:26:59PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > >> Let me rephrase that in: "Wow somebody (user)tagged specifically with > >> ppc64 the nouveau b

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 04:26:59PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> Let me rephrase that in: "Wow somebody (user)tagged specifically with >> ppc64 the nouveau bugs" ... :) >> >> This was not clear. But the offer to ppc64 machine(s) was m

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 04:26:59PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Let me rephrase that in: "Wow somebody (user)tagged specifically with > ppc64 the nouveau bugs" ... :) > > This was not clear. But the offer to ppc64 machine(s) was made by the > ppc64el people: > > https://lists.debian.org/debi

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:40:52AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> Well that's odd. Anyway feel free to report the bug and assign it the >> usertags to ppc64: >> >> https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?tag=ppc64&user=debian-p

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Hiroyuki Yamamoto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, William, William Bonnet wrote: > ./ Is there a defined "minimal" target for the PPC64 port ? I have > understood that VMX support is not enabled [1] (please tell me if i am > wrong). But VMX is not the only optional feature from PowerPC64 > stan

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:40:52AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Well that's odd. Anyway feel free to report the bug and assign it the > usertags to ppc64: > > https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?tag=ppc64&user=debian-powerpc%40lists.debian.org Wow, 5 out of 11 bugs are to do with

Re: Bug#819069: dietlibc: FTBFS on powerpcspe due to missing FPU emulation in library

2016-03-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 03/29/2016 10:04 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: > Unfortunately, apt-get update fails with illegal instruction in this > image (but other binaries such as bash work). QEMU_CPU is set > correctly, just in case you were wondering. Yeah, I just tried to reproduce it and it affects the latest qemu git

Re: Powermac G5 7,2 Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT graphics issues

2016-03-30 Thread Risto Suominen
The other reason for using Peter's kernel is the page size. The official kernels use 64 k pages that do not work with nouveau. Risto

Re: Powermac G5 7,2 Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT graphics issues

2016-03-30 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi, On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Scott Thompson wrote: > l have installed Jessie 8.0.0 on this Powermac G5 7,2 with an Nvidia GeForce > 6800 GT, next I installed Peter Saisanas' 4.5.0-rc2 kernel. Finally I > upgraded to testing. > > > When I boot and ssh into the machine I get this at the end

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi, On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:54 PM, William Bonnet wrote: > Hi all, > > I am currently working (office work) on a project using PPC64 based > boards, each board is running a NXP e5500 processor. We plan to use > Debian, and thus the PPC64 port. So, I have tested the version from > debian-ports,