Hi Dean, Ben,
FYI: I just got from a long family vacation and I haven't tried the
paypal thing yet. So I still owe you $50 (I will figure out how to use
it this weekend!). So if you already have a minimac then please put
the $50 to whatever else you might need.
Sorry for the delay!
Kevin
On 1
Hi,
Put me down for $50 contribution too to get Ben a mini Mac.
Kevin
On Jan 24, 2005, at 8:51 PM, Dean Hamstead wrote:
Actually, ive been meaning to make some sort of contribution to the
fine souls who keep linux-ppc going and had been meaning to contact
benh (or other) about some sort of gift.
on
Hi,
FYI, OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 for PPC Linux is now available.
The main new features are:
- lots and lots of bug fixes from OOo 1.1.1
see
http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.2/release_notes_1.1.2.html
- Will work with Blackdown JDK *or* the IBM JDK (just select one
upon install)
Hi,
Let's review where some of the the other distros are at and what they
are doing for x86_64 as well. Everyone (and I mean everyone) has the
ability to run both 32 bit and 64 bit code.
For x86-64 and ia64 this makes sense. There are a good
number of non-free binaries out there -- though I mu
Hi Jason,
If we use the debian packages, can these facilities be added in later?
Or is it too late because they have been compiled out of the code?
I've been trying to use the Report Wizard and the docbook filter and
haven't been able to make them work - this might explain why.
Yes, neither o
Hi Ben,
Is this needed for the build or can it be built and JDK added later ?
The JDK is needed for a full normal build of OOo but Debian and others
use patches to disable Java since Java itself is not free. Much of the
functionality is present without the need for Java.
Actually, my ques
Hi Ben,
The old JDK is the one I use with OOo. I know that work is still
ongoing at Blackdown for PPC Linux since Sun expressed some interest in
it recently (but not enough to actually find me to do it) so I have
pretty much given up on it. Frankly I use the IBM jdk 1.4.1 for almost
everyth
FYI only,
OpenOffice.org announces OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 for PPC Linux is now
available on the StarDiv and YellowDog Linux Mirrors and selected other
locations.
http://porting.openoffice.org/linuxppc/ppclinks.html
This contributed build was made on an almost stock YDL 3.0 machine and
therefo
Hi,
Possibly? The Blackdown JDK source does not come with any JIT sources but it
does come with Hotspot sources but not for PPC.
Would someone like me be considered "contaminated" even if there is no JIT
being used (or Hotspot for that matter) for PPC since I have seen the built
the Sun sourc
Hi,
FWIW, I just rsyncd and built 2.6.1-rc1-ben1, added a few patches to make my
aec62XX card work again and edited the pmac_defconfig to enable SMP, IRQ
sharing, and the aec62XX and rebuilt it and I must say all of my troubles
with 2.6.0-test11 have gone away.
- once I have loaded the correc
Hi,
In the first hunk of your patch you can possibly grab the semaphore and
then do a return 1 with the semaphore held.
If you really need to hold the semaphore to do a vc_allocate then you
should remember to release that semaphore before doing the return 1
So something along the lines of .
the output used in /proc/stat that
is causing "top" to be confused?
Kevin
On Monday 08 December 2003 19:38, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> I also seem to be having sound troubles with 2.6.0 that do not happen with
> 2.4.23. I have buyilt 2.6.0-test11 with i2c-keywes
Hi,
> > The real issue is that I have run into one of my 2 cpu's literally
> > disappearing according to "top" and to its slower performance.
>
> Haven't seen that. Remind me the exact machine model and how
> do you reproduce that ? You can try using xmon-over-firewire
> from another machine to fi
Hi Ben,
I also seem to be having sound troubles with 2.6.0 that do not happen with
2.4.23. I have buyilt 2.6.0-test11 with i2c-keywest built in and not as a
module so I can't try the rmmod trick.
I will rebuild and revert to keeping it a module.
The real issue is that I have run into one of m
Hi,
> Nope, setting JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE to any value from 0 to 8 doesn't seem
> to help. Setting JAVA_COMPILER=NONE worked, but there is not JIT then.
The code in the JIT looks in /proc/cpuinfo and parses it to try to detect
processor type.
Is there some strange restriction on your processor ty
think (but I don't remember anymore) that you should try somehting like:
export JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE=6
And that may help.
Give it a try and let me know if it does.
Kevin
On Monday 08 December 2003 09:45, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 09:34:54AM -0500, Kevin B. Hendric
Hi,
Make sure you have the very very latest version of the IBM jdk 1.4.1 for
p-series. A previous version had a "bug" that created illegal instruction
when using the JIT for some processor types it could not identify.
The very latest version of the IBM JDK no longer has that problem on my
mac
On Monday 01 December 2003 02:12, Colin Leroy wrote:
> On 30 Nov 2003 at 10h28, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
> > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
> > drmOpe
Hi,
Sorry, please ignore this. I shoudl have double checked that the CONFIG_DRM
was even abled at all. I thought it would be default but was not even set.
My bad...
Kevin
On Sunday 30 November 2003 10:28, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Forgive me if this has been dicsuss
Hi,
Forgive me if this has been dicsussed before. Tux racer used to work just
fine with my old YDL 3 kernel and XFree86 4.3.0.
I have now upgrade to to Ben's latest 2.4.23 kernel and it seems sadly Tux
racer has sloowed way down again.
Looking in /var/log/XFree86*.log the only bad thing I can
Hi,
Yes, I suggest someone port the kde/konqueror way of interfacing to java for
mozilla. I will most likely not be making any more Mozilla Plugin or
Blackdown releases for PPC Linux JDK 1.3.1 We do have people who are working
on JDK 1.4.1 and hotspot but I am not sure of any timeline.
Frank
Hi,
Speaking of the abi, they did just seem to copy it over blindly from
IBM arches.
For example ... Linuxppc64 even follow the broken AIX alignment that
long long ints are aligned to 8 but doubles are only aligned to 4 in
structures. This creates lots of problems for OpenOffice.org since A
Hi Tom,
I got got a dual Operton system that is similar in many ways to the
PPC64 versus 32 issue in that 32 bit apps run at full speed under
Opteron.
Using that as an example:
- kernel is 64 bit supporting both 32 but and 64 bit syscalls
- /lib and /lib64 both exist
- tool chain defaults to
Hi,
It can't seem to find the mozilla libs (libxpcom.so and libnspr4.so).
Do you know why not?
I just tried using my Mozilla 1.3 build (admittedly old) with the Blackdown
JDK 1.3.1 plugin on the URL
http://www.barbery.net/anagram/
and it starts up fine (although I can't read that language)
I
Hi,
Not if it is the one I put on the YellowDog Linux mirrors in OpenOffice.org.
That was compiled with gcc 3.2.2 and does work with mozilla compiled with gcc
3.2.2 as well as OOo compiled with gcc 3.2.2.
That is why I put it there.
Kevin
On Monday 10 November 2003 04:28, Vincent Lefevre wrot
FYI:
Tomorrow OOo 1.1.0 final for PPC Linux will/should be available on the
YellowDogLinux mirrors in pub/yellowdog/software/openoffice/
These are NOT debs but instead the Official OOo installer build done for PPC
Linux.
It should work on any system using late versions of glibc-2.3.1 (such as
Hi,
As far as I know, the IBM jdks do not come with a Mozilla plugin so they won't
work with Mozilla period.
You should be able to use in in Konqueror just by opening it up and editing
its setting and changing the path to find java in the settings.
>From there you should be good to go.
If you
Hi,
Just check out the YDL mirrors in software/openoffice/ the last rebuild of the
JDK is there.
Kevin
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 09:33, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> OoO En ce début d'après-midi nuageux du mardi 02 septembre 2003, vers
>
> 14:27, "Kevin B. Hendricks" &l
Hi Sven,
> > Of course there is the Balckdown JDK 1.3.1 for PPC Linux that does work
> > (I use it to build OOo with) but you are right the Blackdown organization
> > really
>
> You are speaking about OOo 1.0.3 or the new 1.1 stuff ?
I maintain the Linux PPC port for OOo (...not for Debian, Jan d
Hi,
An aside ... we (ppc Linux) are really too small of a development community
and we should really have just one shared development list to get what few of
us are still active at least seeing/hearing what the others are doing.
Kevin
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 08:16, Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi,
> > > (sadly, the only one available to us ppc'ers)
Of course there is the Balckdown JDK 1.3.1 for PPC Linux that does work (I use
it to build OOo with) but you are right the Blackdown organization really
could use some pleople that understand the PPC instruction set well-enough to
help ou
Hi,
You might want to check out the dev list at YellowDogLinux.
it seems by IBM decided to NOT allow its JIT to run with G4 and other non-IBM
processors.
There was a bit of a storm (i.e. I complained loudly and so did others on that
list and on the IBM java newsgroup). I then had to recompile
.
Kevin
On Sunday 06 July 2003 15:23, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 18:22, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Yes the CONFIG_AEC62XX_TUNING *must* be set for that driver to work for
> > ppc. Without tuning it will not properly work for ppc l
Hi,
Whoops my tree is 2.4.21-ben1 and I just looked in drivers/ide/pci and sure
enough there are actually two aec62xx drivers in that tree (one there and one
in drivers/ide).
So the update to the new driver in ide/pci seems to have broken this driver
for us.
Will you please file a breakage re
Hi,
Yes the CONFIG_AEC62XX_TUNING *must* be set for that driver to work for ppc.
Without tuning it will not properly work for ppc linux and you get either
partition check problems or:
> hdX: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24
> hdX: lost interrupt
> hdX: dma_intr: bad DMA status (dma_stat=30
Hi,
> Well, they do... internally to Apple ;) Apple is quite clear in it's
> total absence of interest about Linux on their machines. Some ppl here
> even consider us as a competitor...
And I remember all of the time and effort many of us in the community put in
to help Apple in its MkLinux proj
Hi,
Grab http://crunch.ivey.uwo.ca/khendricks/PPC_docs.tar.gz
There is an old ABI document.
Please note. PPC 32 does not follow the published ABI all of the time:
1. does not return small structures (size of 8 or less) in registers
2. does not pass floating point signals as doubles aligned to
Hi,
You don't need to do that at all. Simply rebuild a kernel with both of these
switches enabled and your 6280M should happily be recognized and work:
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AEC62XX=y
CONFIG_AEC62XX_TUNING=y
You need both (without the TUNING set it hangs on the aprtition check).
This has worked fine
Hi,
I uses the ACard 133 ATA pci card on my machine with no problems
as long as you compile your kernel with both:
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AEC62XX=y
CONFIG_AEC62XX_TUNING=y
That last one is crucial. Without TUNING=y my box will always hang on the
partition check for that card.
Here is what dmesg shows
used to compile the
Debian
> packages.
>
> Wes Morgan
>
> On Monday 21 April 2003 4:46 pm, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Two things:
> >
> > 1. Mozilla is C++ and as such Mozilla and Blackdown JDK (has C+ in it
also)
> > must both eit
n works, so that makes me think
> that there are still compiler version issues with 02c. But I could be
totally
> off on all of this... :)
>
> Wes Morgan
>
> On Monday 21 April 2003 8:04 am, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > AFAIK, none exists. I am basi
Hi,
AFAIK, none exists. I am basically the Blackdown JDK for ppc porting team
and I simply have not had the time to start working on JDK 1.4 yet. My
real need is for help from someone who understands PPC assmebler and
instruction set well and can help implement HotSpot for 1.4.
IBM has a won
Hi Ben,
> There is currently no solution for external flat panels, I simple don't
> know how backlight is controlled on these.
On a lark I installed pmud and pbbuttonsd but all I ended up with was a
completely dark screen for my login prompt. I was blindly able to go to
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ and d
Hi,
I have an 17 inch LCD flatpanel and would very much like to control
brightness and turning off the backlighting after a time period on my
desktop machine similar to what pbbuttonsd does for PowerBooks.
I tried pbbuttonssd just to see but I get an error message about having no
/dev/pmu
Any
Hi,
...
> NOTE: the pci-IDE-controller card is named SCSI storage controller above
> !
...
> this is the ide-controller with the hard disk hde connected to, in
> proc/pci it is described as scsi, don't know why.
...
FWIW: I have a similar ACARD and it works fine
01:14.0 SCSI storage controller: A
ying to help.
Kevin
On February 3, 2003 02:05, Michael Fedrowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 01:55:34PM -0500, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > Perhaps the code has someplaces where char is explictly assumed to be
> > signed.
>
> Very unlikely, patch i
Hi,
Not sure if this is relevant or not. The default under PPC Linux gcc is to
have all char types be unsigned by default whereas on x86 Linux char types
default to be signed (I believe). (I belive PPC Linux is unique iin this
default among Linux platforms)
Perhaps the code has someplaces wh
Hi,
FWIW on my dual G4 the hardware clock loses between 3 and 5 minutes per
24 hour period.
I finally set up an hourly cron job to try to keep my clock current.
On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 06:35 PM, John P. Fisher wrote:
I have two dual G4s running potato debian.
On both of them th
Hi,
I need to get back into doing linear algebra and statistics again (basic
statistics, eigenvectors, regression, principal components, factor
analysis, structural equation modeling at the level of SAS, SPSS, LISREL,
etc.
I have found links to netlib and the literally tons of free/public doma
Hi,
I can talking generically about whaqtever project software etc you are
working on.
Kevin
On August 24, 2002 11:14, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 10:59:00AM -0400, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
> > The key here is to make sure that all shared libraries in the gentoo
&g
Hi,
There are two possible problem areas:
1. you are missing a required library for linking
or
2. you are linking to a library that was not properly built with -fPIC
My guess is that the issue is no. 2 since it builds for x86 linux.
The key here is to make sure that all shared libraries in t
Hi,
JDK 1.4.X does NOT exist for ppc Linux from Blackdown (or anywhere else
that I know of yet)/
I am one of the Blackdown ports for ppc Linux so I would know.
If anyone wants a JDK 1.4 from Blackdown (with mozilla plugin) we are going
to need volunteers who know ppc assembly well.
So we ar
Hi,
No, and it won't be unless IBM does it or Blackdown gets an infusion of
volunteers that want to help port HotSpot to ppc (people who know ppc
assembler well). If you know anyone who wants to help port HotSpot to PPC
(we begged Apple to release the source to there version but they would
n
Hi,
Checkout Blackdown and hunt throught the mirrors for one that includes the
PPC binaries and download JDK 1.3.1 and/or jre 1.3.1 and the plugin will
be part of the installation.
Kevin
On August 9, 2002 10:10, Shawn Dunn wrote:
> Hey all, is there a PPC compatible Java Plugin for Mozilla out
ntact
me and I will try to provide you with and recent or nedded patches and
some short build instructions. Right now the build of 1.0.1 requires gcc
3.X.
Thanks,
Kevin B. Hendricks
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Hi,
> Is someone hammering the mozilla java maintainer about the
> api issue? It's hard to believe that they are only a few months
> away from declaring mozilla 1.0 and they still can't get the java
> plugin api straight.
I think they have finally frozen things with mozilla 0.9.7 but we won'
Hi Michel,
> It is indeed strange that the JDK plugin doesn't even have a relocation
> for 'ect' - could it be a bug in the dynamic linker after all, mangling
> the relocation for 'select' or another symbol containing 'ect'?
Yes, I think you are absolutely right. It was probably some other symbo
Hi,
I am no Galeon user but Laurent just reported the following:
> just double-checked. The plugin is built with fPIC option and it's a
> shared lib all right. There is no ect symbol per se in the plugin code.
> Mozilla loads applets correctly with the plugin and they run well. And
> Galeon 1.0.
Hi,
No, I did not build this binary and probably won't make future builds
either due to time constraints. But I do not understand how the plugin
can link fine under mozilla and not galeon?
I will pass along your bug report to Blackdown internal porting java-linux
mailing list. There is a Bug
ch slower [and apparently
> bugier, and painful to read] method of trying to force the compiler
> and arg passing code to deal with that mountain of
>
> a
>
> "Kevin B. Hendricks" wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think the second double valu
test it for you.
Take care,
Kevin
On Friday 23 February 2001 16:59, Stephen Turner wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
> >
> > Here is a quick and dirty way to test. Move both double parameters to
the
> > beginning of the function and caller and the p
Hi,
I think the second double value is confusing the compiler into skipping a
stack slot when it really shouldn't be doing that at all!
This is wierd.
Here is a quick and dirty way to test. Move both double parameters to the
beginning of the function and caller and the problem should go a
Hi,
Most of the bugs in passing parameters have been fixed by the 2.95.3 series
Franz Sirl has created.
To see if it is indeed a parameter passing issue, I need to know what the
types are for each parameter passed below (specifically if any are long long
int or float or double types and what t
Whoops!
Nothing like posting the wrong url!
Sorry about that. I can't seem to type at all today (notice the subject
line with its PPP Linux and not PPC Linux).
As Jeramy correctly posted, the correct URL is
http://linuxppc.org/usr/java
Oh well!
Kevin
> > http://linuxppc.org/user/java
> >
Xpmac rev10 or higher
- requires a recent version of tar that supports bzip2
- requires dynamic OpenMotif 2.1.30-3 (with an additional JDK bugfix patch)
Check out the website for more INFO in the Release Notes
Hope this Helps.
Kevin B. Hendricks
ps. Thank Jeremy for getting the new
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