Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

2016-11-04 Thread Dragan Stojkovic
I'm willing to support somehow. I own several PowerPC (G4 & G5) machines and could also spent some time for doing testings. I studied IT in 2000 and since then I haven’t spent much time on real IT stuff. Only IS Service- and Release Mgmt so far. I even don’t remember the last time i installed E

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

2016-11-04 Thread luigi burdo
Had been some one try to contact NXP about? Luigi Da: Christoph Biedl Inviato: venerdì 4 novembre 2016 19.16 A: PowerPC List Debian Oggetto: Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch' luigi burdo wrote... > Im thinking to start a petition about ... "do

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

2016-11-04 Thread Christoph Biedl
Herminio Hernandez Jr. wrote... > To say that no one stepped forward is not true. Adrian stepped up > and asked to be the porter for PowerPC. Digging in the past isn't very helpful, but there one thing I'd like to understand: Nobody responded to the initial role call in August. Some folks had do

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

2016-11-04 Thread Christoph Biedl
luigi burdo wrote... > Im thinking to start a petition about ... "dont kill debian penguins on > powerpc" Don't. The release team folks are not politicians who get convinced by a lot of noise. Unless I completely misunderstand their position, the only question that matters is: Can we (as the Deb

Re: Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-11-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
And of course I made a typo while copying things into the patch. Doing another build test of it now. --- vlc-2.2.4.orig/configure.ac 2016-05-31 12:11:07.0 -0400 +++ vlc-2.2.4/configure.ac 2016-11-04 12:22:02.543265439 -0400 @@ -1422,25 +1422,24 @@ VLC_SAVE_FLAGS AC_CACHE_CHECK(

Re: Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-11-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
Actually maybe this simpler version is better. I think I just figured out why libdeinterlace wasn't getting the altivec flags, which was that it was listed as deinterlace rather than libdeinterlace. Doing a build test of it now. --- vlc-2.2.4.orig/configure.ac 2016-05-31 12:11:07.0 -0400

Re: Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-11-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 10:44:21AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > This would of course go much faster if I currently had access to a > powerpc box rather than running in qemu. :) > > I miss the p710 at my previous job. So here is the patch I am currently building. I think it now builds correct

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

2016-11-04 Thread luigi burdo
yes...and you are only calculating the laptop ... when there are T2080 and T4080 Servers and X5000, X5000/20 and X5000/040 Luigi Da: Joe Nosay Inviato: venerdì 4 novembre 2016 16.33 A: luigi burdo Cc: PowerPC List Debian; Herminio Hernandez Jr. Oggetto: Re: Rele

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

2016-11-04 Thread Joe Nosay
A shame seeing that there is a laptop being developed that is powerpc. http://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/ On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 11:31 AM, luigi burdo wrote: > yes no support for all PPC BE , PPC64 too. > > Only PPCLE (power8 and power9) are supported. > > > Luigi > > >

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

2016-11-04 Thread luigi burdo
yes no support for all PPC BE , PPC64 too. Only PPCLE (power8 and power9) are supported. Luigi Da: Joe Nosay Inviato: venerdì 4 novembre 2016 16.25 A: luigi burdo Cc: Herminio Hernandez Jr.; PowerPC List Debian Oggetto: Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 '

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

2016-11-04 Thread Joe Nosay
Does this mean no support for e6500? On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 6:13 AM, luigi burdo wrote: > > Im thinking to start a petition about ... "dont kill debian penguins on > powerpc" > > Luigi > -- > *Da:* Herminio Hernandez Jr. > *Inviato:* venerdì 4 novembre 2016 11.05 > *

Re: Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-11-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 10:41:57AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Well it's not the complete solution yet. > > I have it down to only deinterlace being miscompiled (it auto vectorized > Generic* functions with altivec instructions, which is not good). > > At the moment it looks like either the

Re: Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-11-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 10:52:05AM +0100, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > On 2016-11-03 13:58:58, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 01:42:17PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > Well that looks like it only adds it for libvlccore. > > > > So at least something like this is needed,

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

2016-11-04 Thread luigi burdo
Im thinking to start a petition about ... "dont kill debian penguins on powerpc" Luigi Da: Herminio Hernandez Jr. Inviato: venerdì 4 novembre 2016 11.05 A: Christoph Biedl Cc: PowerPC List Debian Oggetto: Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch' To say t

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

2016-11-04 Thread Herminio Hernandez Jr.
To say that no one stepped forward is not true. Adrian stepped up and asked to be the porter for PowerPC. There was an entire thread on PowerPC qualifying for Stretch where he stated his desire to support it. In the end his request was turned down. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 4, 2016, at 2:0

Re: Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-11-04 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
On 2016-11-03 13:58:58, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 01:42:17PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > Well that looks like it only adds it for libvlccore. > > So at least something like this is needed, but I think the VLCCORE is > wrong too, and maybe the deinterlace has to be mo

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

2016-11-04 Thread luigi burdo
Hi Debian mantainers, for understand how much people are interested in installing linux on powerpc (powermac g5) just check this video views https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5yZ9oF_mgU it was created 3 months ago ... and have "only" more than 70.000 views. Hope you will understand this choic