Re: New discussion: ppc64 installer -- ext2 /boot partition to keep yaboot happy.

2017-10-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/22/2017 04:51 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I‘ll upload an updated ppc64 image with your template changes in about an > hour. Here it is, sorry for the delay: > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/debian-9.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :'

Re: floating point types seems to need VSX support ?

2017-10-23 Thread Dennis Clarke
So regardless if I use gcc 6.4.0 or gcc 7.2.0 or even the Oracle cc we always see the correct data in memory and the correct output. However on PowerPC 64-bit with gcc 7.2.0 there seems to be an entirely other data representation at work internally and a need for -mfloat128 ? That won't work un

Re: floating point types seems to need VSX support ?

2017-10-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 10:55:34PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > WARNING : long and winding but full of examples. > > > This is quite confusing with gcc 7.2.0 on latest ppc64 sid. > > nix_$ uname -a > Linux nix 4.13.0-1-powerpc64 #1 SMP Debian 4.13.4-1 (2017-10-01) ppc64 > GNU/Linux > > nix_$ g