Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-12 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 12/05/2023 à 00:50, Ben Westover a écrit : Arch Linux's unofficial ppc port lists instructions for installing on PReP machines [1], so unless they're inaccurate I would assume Linux still supports PREp.     A PREp partition does not contain any filesystem; it is just something on which you

Re: Is a Raptor Blackbird (or other Power machine) a good general-purpose desktop?

2023-03-23 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 23/03/2023 à 00:43, Riccardo Mottola a écrit : Hi, Didier Kryn wrote:     Another concern is that a software which does run only on one single endianness proves to be buggy and loosely written. High level software such as Firefox should be independant of such considerations, exactly as it

Re: Is a Raptor Blackbird (or other Power machine) a good general-purpose desktop?

2023-03-21 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 21/03/2023 à 13:37, Linux User #330250 a écrit : Lionel Élie Mamane wrote on 03/21/23: On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 02:43:44AM +, Edward Robbins wrote: On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 at 23:36, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: No candidate laptops I presume? There is perhaps some day, this project is maki

Re: After update, just a black screen

2020-05-21 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 20/05/2020 à 15:33, Mick Bert a écrit : Il 20/05/20 14:30, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto: "init=/bin/bash". What the hell - in this mode, it does not recognise keystroke ^C, or ^Z. I started a ping, and I do not know how to interrupt it!     That' because you're connected on the c

Re: Supported Hardware ?

2016-10-24 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 25/10/2016 06:19, Lennart Sorensen a écrit : That one would be powerpcspe, not powerpc, unless I have misunderstood the e500v2. e300, e500mc, e5500 and e6500 are all normal sane powerpc designs, while e500v1 and e500v2 are the SPE chips that don't have normal powerpc FPUs. Whyever would they

Re: About the FreeScale e500 series processor

2010-09-15 Thread Didier Kryn
Hi Bear. I have been running Debian for years on the following embedded PowerPCs: MPC60x (rather old) MPC7457 MPC8540 The MPC8540 has an e500 Version1 core, which is compatible with older PowerPCs, at the condition that FP instructions are emulated in the kernel, because it