Re: [PATCH] Revert "Link yaboot at 1MB"

2017-10-21 Thread Mark Balantzyan
It may also be worthwhile to consider (force-)booting from Optical Drive on PMacs/ppc64 as selectable from the GRUB menu. The (former) Yaboot has this option. Discs of a Linux-nature may or may not be detected from OF, I have found. It’s probably quite lofty already to consider FireWire and USB

Re: [PATCH] Revert "Link yaboot at 1MB"

2017-10-21 Thread Mark Balantzyan
My bad, correction on my last reply-all: > P.S. I understand that the new GRUB is likely not going to replace > OpenFirmware, so I am requesting just to be able to still boot from USB + > Firewire on the G5 Quad and USB on the G5 Dual 2.0 from the bootloader, and > not have to manually drill in

Re: [PATCH] Revert "Link yaboot at 1MB"

2017-10-21 Thread Mark Balantzyan
Hello everyone, Long time no…erm. "We are actually working on making GRUB the default bootloader for Debian powerpc and ppc64. It is already the default bootloader when installing on PREP/CHRP PowerPC machines. There is still some work to do for Apple NewWorld machines though but I am confident

Re: [PATCH] Revert "Link yaboot at 1MB"

2017-10-21 Thread John Ogness
On 2017-10-21, Tony Breeds wrote: >> This reverts commit f7a364631f2a8975ecca56668a19ee0a66c1ddcd. >> >> An iBook G4 (PowerBook6,5) was unable to boot when linking to the >> lower address. Revert back to 2MB. >> >> Signed-off-by: John Ogness >> --- >> I could not find any references about _why

Bug#879270: thunderbird: FTBFS on ppc64 due to incorrect endianness selection

2017-10-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Source: icedove Version: 1:52.4.0-1 Severity: important User: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Usertags: ppc64 Hello! thunderbird fails to build from source on ppc64 [1]: js/src> Creating config.status Creating config.status Reticulating splines... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/<>/

Re: floating point types seems to need VSX support ?

2017-10-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Dennis! On 10/21/2017 04:55 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > WARNING : long and winding but full of examples. Thanks for digging this out. > This is quite confusing with gcc 7.2.0 on latest ppc64 sid. Did you try an earlier gcc version from snapshots.debian.org? > There is not vector scalar suppo

Re: [PATCH] Revert "Link yaboot at 1MB"

2017-10-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/21/2017 03:05 AM, Tony Breeds wrote: > I'd say that as most 'new' platforms have moved away from yaboot to grub > we're probably safe to apply this but I'd like to do more digging before > I commit to that. We are actually working on making GRUB the default bootloader for Debian powerpc and