Re: Lombard booting Debian Ports 2020-04-19 (was Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19)

2020-04-22 Thread Ed Robbins
On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 15:12, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 4/20/20 3:30 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > >> Did you try loading GRUB directly from the OpenFirmware prompt? > > > > From the Open Firmware prompt, the Debian 7.8 CD can be booted using the > > following command: > > 0 > boot

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020, at 11:30 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2020-04-19/ Works great fresh out of the box on my PowerMac G5 "PowerMac7,3" -- Congratulations! Let me know if you want log files or other data from that installation. I then tr

Broken link on install page

2020-04-22 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, The "Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC PowerMac Page", https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac says to visit the fine manual for the detailed instructions. The link is https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/, but the page is missing. Would someone know where the page is now loc

Re: Maintaining older xorg driver packages by Debian Ports

2020-04-22 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > After some xorg driver packages were removed from the archive in #955603 [1] > that we still need for Debian Ports, I was wondering whether it's okay when > I take over maintainership and upload the packages to unstable as we need > them. > > I unders

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-22 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 4/22/20 10:38 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> These images should finally fix the installation process on Apple >> PowerMacs and PowerBooks compatible with GRUB, so basically every >> Macintosh using the New World ROM [2]. >> >> One user already reported

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-22 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > These images should finally fix the installation process on Apple > PowerMacs and PowerBooks compatible with GRUB, so basically every > Macintosh using the New World ROM [2]. > > One user already reported a successful installation on his PowerMac > G5 a

Re: Cross building debian kernel package: scripts/Kconfig.include:39: compiler ' powerpc-linux-gnu-gcc-9' not found

2020-04-22 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/22/20 9:02 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > $ dpkg-architecture -apowerpc -c fakeroot make -f debian/rules.gen > setup_powerpc_none_powerpc64 > [...] > gcc -o scripts/kconfig/conf scripts/kconfig/conf.o > scripts/kconfig/confdata.o scripts/kconfig/expr.o > scripts/kconfig/lexer.lex.o scripts

Cross building debian kernel package: scripts/Kconfig.include:39: compiler ' powerpc-linux-gnu-gcc-9' not found

2020-04-22 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I am following instructions from: * https://kernel-team.pages.debian.net/kernel-handbook/ch-common-tasks.html So basically I end up doing from my x86_64 arch: $ dpkg-architecture -apowerpc -c fakeroot make -f debian/rules.gen setup_powerpc_none_powerpc64 [...] gcc -o scripts/kconf