Re: Promise IDE controllers

2003-04-23 Thread Matt Porter
IDE support and Generic PCI DMA support then two PDC202xx options appear which can enabled to support that family of controllers. Regards, -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: Promise IDE controllers

2003-04-23 Thread Matt Porter
under Mac isn't a > priority. Any experience out there? I've tested the Ultra TX2/133 (PDC20269) on just about every PPC imaginable 40x/44x/82xx/7xx/74xx. It's rock solid and fast. Performance relative to CMD64x chipsets is excellent. Regards, -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: Can't compile 2.4 on PReP w/ potato

2001-01-22 Thread Matt Porter
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:03:45PM +, Jonathan Belson wrote: > Matt Porter wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 06:54:12PM +, Jonathan Belson wrote: > > > Matt Brubeck wrote: > > > > > > > > The official release of Linux 2.4.0 doesn&#x

Re: Can't compile 2.4 on PReP w/ potato

2001-01-22 Thread Matt Porter
uxppc_2_5 tree gets tested at least once a week on my Powerstacks (Blackhawk and Utah). ncr810 SCSI is currently broken. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PC hardware on PPC

2000-12-16 Thread Matt Porter
pushed a fix in for...the maintainer(s) have been sent patches directly in the past and seem to be dropping them. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel Hanging...

2000-09-23 Thread Matt Porter
e : > > Linux/PPC load: console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0 root=/dev/sda5 > Uncompressing Linux...done. > Now booting the kernel > > Do somebody have an idea how I can fix this problem ? Yep, get the latest linuxppc_2_3 tree from fsmlabs.com. I&#x

Re: libmoto PowerPC-optimized math library?

2000-08-19 Thread Matt Porter
eered the library. All the math routines are assembly code so it's not difficult (only time-consuming) to strip the library apart and produce a source available version. Just my two cents, -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Who else feels dirty after working on x86 machines?

Re: PowerPC cd status

2000-03-23 Thread Matt Porter
ns the table is not used. It seems clear to me now that since the mac table allows for a PC partition table in it (minus the bootstrap code area) it works fine for booting PReP. The only thing that is used is that one of the primary partition entries is set to type 0x41 (PReP Boot) and loaded with an absolute offset and size of the image to be loaded from the block device. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PowerPC cd status

2000-03-23 Thread Matt Porter
task selection in boot-floppies 3-4 months. There is some guy running around the Phoenix LUG with a Motorola Powerstack (PReP) that was installed from a pre-alpha potato/PowerPC CD. :) -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kernel-package/kernel-image was Re: New kernel packages available

2000-03-01 Thread Matt Porter
at work (as in having all the right patches in place) in incoming than promoting my solution so let's decide what's technically best and move on. Comments? What can the kernel-patch approach really do that kernel-image can't? -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: More on Powerbook G3 install

2000-02-15 Thread Matt Porter
h time as did before. Oh, and the current ppc boot-floppies works damn well good for my PReP boxes (maybe not IBM's due to kernel problems). I also made them work for pmac for my Tanzania Starmax box and made the changes available. I guess the problem with pmac is all the demand is going f

Re: w3m

2000-02-07 Thread Matt Porter
hile back and found it was in this library it uses for garbage collection...sorry I forgot to file a bug report. w3m really rocks, it would be nice it somebody could find a solution since it's doubtful the i386 maintainer will solve this powerpc specific bug. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Th

Re: perl-5.005 fails to build on powerpc

2000-01-30 Thread Matt Porter
c/ I use dpkg-buildpackage from dpkg-dev to build packages and automagically sign them. I then use the dupload tool to shoot them up on master. > apt-get source foo > cd foo-xx.xx > dpkg-buildpackage -B [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cd ..; dupload foo-xx.xx*.changes YMMV -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Problems compiling 2.2.15pre4 kernel

2000-01-25 Thread Matt Porter
t; Hello, ... > > Are you speaking about debian/potato release ? > > If yes i guess it was decided to use 2.2.15pre4 or whatever as the final > candidate for the debian/potato/powerpc release. Really? Which thread? -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: perl-5.005 fails to build on powerpc

2000-01-24 Thread Matt Porter
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 12:40:44PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 10:05:34AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: > > I'd suspect a kernel problem with 2.3.10, unless you're missing SysV IPC > > support. My 2.2.9 PReP kernel only fails on the anydbm.t and

Re: perl-5.005 fails to build on powerpc

2000-01-24 Thread Matt Porter
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 10:38:44AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 07:57:26AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 12:10:07AM -0800, Alex Romosan wrote: > > > Matt Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >

Re: perl-5.005 fails to build on powerpc

2000-01-24 Thread Matt Porter
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 12:10:07AM -0800, Alex Romosan wrote: > Matt Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is anybody else having any luck? ndbm fails in two tests and I don't > > see any talk of this problem. Full test log is in bug #55932. > > > >

perl-5.005 fails to build on powerpc

2000-01-24 Thread Matt Porter
Is anybody else having any luck? ndbm fails in two tests and I don't see any talk of this problem. Full test log is in bug #55932. Suggestions are very welcome since we can't build boot-floppies until this is fixed. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet

Re: architecture not supported (sigh)

2000-01-22 Thread Matt Porter
up the kernel packages too. Once I get a working build for my PReP boxes and lone Starmax I'll make the images available for others to test. Sure would be nice to get a good cross-section of the Apple products tested (especially for those architecture not detected problems and the like). -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: PowerPC Kernel installs

2000-01-21 Thread Matt Porter
; > -- > ,-, > | Jeremy T. Bouse - UnderGrid Network Services, LLC - www.UnderGrid.net > | > | All messages from this address should be atleast PGP/GPG signed > | > | Public PG

Re: PowerPC Kernel installs

2000-01-21 Thread Matt Porter
new kernels on the system it > still has yet to boot one of them... dd if= of=/dev/sda2 ^ your case Apologies since I haven't yet file a bug report or fixed the kernel-image packages installer to not attempt to use quik on PReP syste

Re: Continuing Annoyances...

2000-01-06 Thread Matt Porter
ll the time. If somebody could get them to quit it we would have distribution specific driver tarballs floating around. :-/ It seems to prove my theory that _most_ kernel hackers use a Red Hat derived disty. Does the LSB draft specify a Linus-recommended solution? -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] T

Re: RS6K PReP boot?

1999-11-22 Thread Matt Porter
tils/gcc source packages. See http://members.home.com/mmporter/linux/ The deb packages are a little dated now since I haven't been using them lately. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: Which installation files are needed by dbootstrap?

1999-11-12 Thread Matt Porter
d this information? What is debian-cd archived on YACS? Go to www.debian.org Go to mailing list archive Find the debian-cd mailing list. Read the threads discussing YACS. They describe where to get a copy. The docs explains how to build CDs. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. O

Re: Which installation files are needed by dbootstrap?

1999-11-11 Thread Matt Porter
hives on YACS, obtain a copy and read the docs. You only need disks-powerpc/current/... to install a base system, and then install the rest via network. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: Wrong filesystem for resc1440.bin

1999-11-11 Thread Matt Porter
dbootstrap wants to have it that way. Has > anyone any better idea? > > BTW, it's a Power Macintosh 8600/250. Corrected ext2 resc1440.bin at http://www.debian.org/~porter -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: Blackhawk problems

1999-11-08 Thread Matt Porter
oto. is supporting PReP work in the kernel and Debian for their current line of PReP VME/CPCI/ATX systems and support for older systems improves as a result. Especially since a lot of the systems are running servers at work and home of Moto engineers. :) -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: Default kernel for powerpc may change

1999-11-08 Thread Matt Porter
ubarchs but it could be added if we can't find a common ground. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: what about potato boot-floppies for powerpc/apus ?

1999-11-08 Thread Matt Porter
upport (telling me that nobody is actively maintaining it), it's going to take a lot of commitment to make that timeframe. We can't afford to have apus support rolling into boot-floppies after a couple weeks. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Default kernel for powerpc may change

1999-11-05 Thread Matt Porter
dy with the time to track what is used on other PPC distributions are using for optimial pmac support could really help by feeding that info back here. Speak now...my theory is that we want to keep moving to the latest stable release as long as it's not one that pulls the old "break all a

Re: what about potato boot-floppies for powerpc/apus ?

1999-11-05 Thread Matt Porter
binaries since it is an 823/860 based board (no FPU) and there is no FPU emulation yet in the kernel for those processors. I would think of it as an architecture, more like a port for one of many hundreds of different embedded 823/860 solutions...hint: MBX might not be available much longer. --

Re: TERM & font in GNOME terminal

1999-11-04 Thread Matt Porter
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 06:29:13PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Matt Porter wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 04:24:50PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > > What is the best combination of the TERM env variable and the font in the > > > GNOM

Re: TERM & font in GNOME terminal

1999-11-04 Thread Matt Porter
ial console...sercon is just a lot slower. :) -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: Installing Linux from scratch (PowerMac 4400)

1999-11-04 Thread Matt Porter
D, provided that I get > into Open Firmware (ever)? If boot-device is set to /AAPL,ROM then it should boot from the CD. The only exception I found was when I got my drive that had Norton disklock on it, I had to unhook it until I change the boot-device so I could get into OF. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: Blackhawk problems

1999-11-03 Thread Matt Porter
ected, it will look for standard vga console, and then fall back to serial automagically. > Otherwise, I'm mighty impressed. :) -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: PowerMac 7300/200

1999-11-02 Thread Matt Porter
IM3. No, just a problem with my brain. :) Note that it passed 0f:d0...it hexified the root device parameter. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: PowerMac 7300/200

1999-11-02 Thread Matt Porter
it. I hacked the changes into the existing images to complete my install on a Starmax I've acquired and have made them available at http://www.debian.org/~porter. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: debconf 0.1.71 broken

1999-11-02 Thread Matt Porter
m, eh? I uploaded new binaries to master yesterday which are correctly linked against newt 0.50. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot. pgp9o479BcWrS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Kernel 2.2.13 (and earlier) and ethernet interrupt handler

1999-11-01 Thread Matt Porter
et are you using? Nobody can help you without this info. :) -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot. pgpX1GuxqtHNt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Install on MVME1604-014

1999-11-01 Thread Matt Porter
e development effort, I just need to get over this > first hurdle! I've got a whole bunch of these down in my lab...I'll put it in my queue to try one out...don't know when that will happen though. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: Newbie Debian Questions

1999-11-01 Thread Matt Porter
handling (somebody shoot the IBM engineer with primary IDE routed to legacy IRQ13). If things take too long I'll make a separate patch for PReP. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: PowerMac kernels with GCC 2.95.1

1999-11-01 Thread Matt Porter
der > GCC)? I've been using the mentioned version of gcc for a while now to build PReP kernels from the 2.2.12 and now .13 releases. I built the most recent kernel-image packages from stock 2.2.12 using 2.95.1 as well. I've been able to boot that pmac kernel on my StarMax with no

Re: I got into the installer and...

1999-10-22 Thread Matt Porter
into the kernel) and the installer no longer places it on the root disk to insmod during install. I will have to make new kernel image packages (which I was going to do anyway for some new prep patches) and then I'll create a test image you can try out. Alternately, anyone can do the same if

Re: Stuff disapppearing in incoming/

1999-10-22 Thread Matt Porter
nately, they aren't there yet on the mirrors which is off since regular packages that I submit and get the same mail seems to appear on ftp.debian.org much more quickly. You should see them soon, though, ftpmaster has told me. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: Anyone working on gcc 2.95.2?

1999-10-21 Thread Matt Porter
oming. It chokes on __va_copy() but is happy with va_copy(). I'll wait until I have the same gcc as x86 before wasting any more time on it. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: Anyone working on gcc 2.95.2?

1999-10-21 Thread Matt Porter
feel like 2.95.2 is the light at the end of the tunnel...I hope I'm right. Thanks, -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: PPC instructions

1999-10-21 Thread Matt Porter
with > this - just a failure to note something in the docs, or...? They are covered in Appendix F. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Anyone working on gcc 2.95.2?

1999-10-21 Thread Matt Porter
.95.1 kills x86 builds with 2.95.2. Sigh... -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: potato boot-floppies for powerpc uploaded

1999-10-21 Thread Matt Porter
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 01:52:51PM +0900, Susumu OSAWA wrote: > At Sun, 17 Oct 1999 22:11:04 -0700, > Matt Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PowerPC specific - PReP support is complete. (IBM PReP support is not > > thoroughly t

Re: potato boot-floppies for powerpc uploaded

1999-10-21 Thread Matt Porter
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 02:00:32PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote: > At 12:59 -0700 1999-10-20, Matt Porter wrote: > >It's a boot-floppies check of /proc/cpuinfo. Looking at the kernel I think > >your probably claims it is "machine: PowerMac" which is not handled yet &g

Re: potato boot-floppies for powerpc uploaded

1999-10-20 Thread Matt Porter
G3 returns that would help, otherwise maybe Ben H. can chime in regarding what the possible values are for this field on the newer pmacs. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: Request another powerpc compilation of libforms0.89

1999-10-20 Thread Matt Porter
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:44:50AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 12:59:38PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > I emailed Matt about it, and have had no reply. He must be busy > > (although I have lost the copy of the email I sent him, so > > perhaps

Re: Request another powerpc compilation of libforms0.89

1999-10-20 Thread Matt Porter
our other packages on http://www.debian.org/~psg, though. What is the full URL for the source package? -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: potato boot-floppies for powerpc uploaded

1999-10-20 Thread Matt Porter
tarball for placement on the mirror, I think things will be made available more quickly. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Problem building libnewt-perl on powerpcc

1999-10-19 Thread Matt Porter
rray type make[1]: *** [Newt.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mporter/src/libnewt-perl-1.08' make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2 -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: potato boot-floppies for powerpc uploaded

1999-10-18 Thread Matt Porter
just for hard drive boots. Give me a couple weeks and I'll know more...I haven't seen many Mac people around here interested in getting boot images working (as evidenced by none contributing to powerpc boot-floppies devel). -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

potato boot-floppies for powerpc uploaded

1999-10-18 Thread Matt Porter
roken) since I now have a Mac-clone to test with...my primary devel platform is PReP. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: Request a powerpc compilation of libforms0.89

1999-10-15 Thread Matt Porter
fic subdirs. Another option would be to not provide libforms-bin is we can't have powerpc binaries of those tools but this is undesirable and should be fixed in the upstream package. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: Archive corruption?

1999-10-12 Thread Matt Porter
ages. I've reported the problem to ftpmaster but have gotten zero response in a day. FWIW, binary-arm is also broken and only main and contrib are broken. I'm guessing the tool used to create them still has a nice little buglet. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country.

Re: dmasound failure under 2.2.12 kernel

1999-10-08 Thread Matt Porter
needed Mac fixes. I did the last upload the powerpc 2.2.12 patch and images, but my native platform is PReP so I have no way of knowing what are the appropriate patches to include for Mac. I'm planning on doing another set of images shortly (since we've done some IDE fixes on PReP), so I

Re: 2.2.12 kernel compilation

1999-09-24 Thread Matt Porter
up-to-date potato box...I can find a 2301 if necessary to test, but it shouldn't have any problems with stock 2.2.12. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: new kernel

1999-09-22 Thread Matt Porter
G to autoboot the image across the network. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: bash returning error 139 running zcat | patch

1999-09-19 Thread Matt Porter
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 02:30:01PM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: > I had to give up on this and see if anybody else had an idea. I was > fixing up the powerpc patch package for 2.2.12 and found this odd error > during the build process. > > The rules file for a kernel build calls

bash returning error 139 running zcat | patch

1999-09-18 Thread Matt Porter
turning an error 139. What's even better is that I cannot reproduce this error by running the 0powerpc script directly from the shell...the apply/unapply process works fine. I am running kernel 2.2.9 w/some board specific patches and the latest bash. TIA, -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Th

Re: breakage

1999-09-17 Thread Matt Porter
again? http://www.debian.org/~porter/download/ -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: Debian/PPC (was: Re: console-apt)

1999-09-16 Thread Matt Porter
buildd -- please wait otherosfs/mkhybrid_1.12b5.3-2 by porter [optional:out-of-date] $ -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: Debian/PPC

1999-09-15 Thread Matt Porter
werpc.deb. I hacked the rules so it would build, when the maintainer fixes the bug in the source package it can go in the disty. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: gcc 2.95.1 safe to use?

1999-09-15 Thread Matt Porter
quired/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- ii binutils2.9.5.0.10-0.1 The GNU assembler, linker and binary utiliti ii gcc 2.95.1-2 The GNU

Re: Debian/PPC

1999-09-15 Thread Matt Porter
e new binutils (which is easily obtained from experimental if you want it to work). -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: Debian/PPC (was: Re: console-apt)

1999-09-14 Thread Matt Porter
s behind. :-/ My systems are behind a firewall but buildd doesn't care and I should be able to provide at least one build daemon here out of the 10 or so Debian/PowerPC machines that are running. -- Matt Porter Motorola Computer Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] CIBU Linux Support

Re: in.rshd vanished, and sound on powerstack

1999-09-14 Thread Matt Porter
ent/rsh-server powerpc packages at http://www.debian.org/~porter/download/ Switching to ssh is not a real solution when I have to access Slowaris and AIX boxes that are maintained by others behind our firewall at work. rsh is plenty of security in that environment. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: console-apt

1999-09-14 Thread Matt Porter
nly other problem is that it needs the latest g++/libstdc++ that are held back and rely on binutils 2.9.5.0.10 that Dan has u/led to experimental for now. I was able to successfully build a package but can't do a porter (I like that term) NMU until these issues are resolved. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL P

Re: MVME2301 motorola board

1999-09-13 Thread Matt Porter
above site has information on doing that as well. If you want to boot out of the onboard linear flash like VxWorks you'll have to wait a bit for that...I have a working bootloader but it currently requires changes to PPCBUG. -- Matt Porter Motorola Computer Gro

Re: Anacron and xcdroast problem report

1999-09-09 Thread Matt Porter
have hundreds of PPC-specific bugs in our already built packages. I just found an endianess problem in ext2resize the other day. That's why we need to get boot-floppies stable for all subarchs so we can get more PowerPC testers. -- Matt Porter Motorola Computer Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] CIBU Linux Support

Re: specific to Hartmut Kuptein

1999-08-23 Thread Matt Porter
ems that is a 43P is PReP arch then a 40P would be as well. But who am I to know what the "P" signifies? -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: help with IBM powerpc Model 40P RS6K machine

1999-08-19 Thread Matt Porter
he full range of Motorola PReP platforms but I've had some good feedback from folks on IBM PReP boxes. I'll be happy to incorporate any feedback I get into the README and then eventually into the Debian installation documentation. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: Phase 5 Statement on Linux for PowerPC

1999-08-19 Thread Matt Porter
boxes? VA and Penguin aren't even interested in building an alternative architecture box. Yes, I'm pessimistic, but always looking for the light. I think some el cheapo Taiwanese board manufacturer is the best shot we've got with IBM's backing (hey they've got deep pocket

Re: Phase 5 Statement on Linux for PowerPC

1999-08-19 Thread Matt Porter
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Matt Porter wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > Another difference is that now the market is ready for it, while it > > > wasn't in > > > 1997. > >

Re: Phase 5 Statement on Linux for PowerPC

1999-08-19 Thread Matt Porter
raphics chip vendor who's actually > useful. I'm pessimistic too, but I do know that MCG has a solution since they make their own host bridges in house. Adding AGP to the Raven or Hawk parts will be easy when it is necessary. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: Phase 5 Statement on Linux for PowerPC

1999-08-19 Thread Matt Porter
minimal that any board makers design group should be able to handle the changes. Max! is really designed to drop into an existing 750 board...YMMV. Anybody with other ideas? I've been bouncing these thoughts off some Apple and VA folks and I keep coming back to these points. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: Phase 5 Statement on Linux for PowerPC

1999-08-19 Thread Matt Porter
NICE* in a PowerPC.) It may be a disaster, it may > not be.. all we can do is wait and see. Silicon yield is quite a bit different from producing a board in a proven form factor with a bunch of off-the-shelf parts. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: Phase 5 Statement on Linux for PowerPC

1999-08-19 Thread Matt Porter
illing to throw a little money at making some relationships with manufacturers, I suppose. Sounds good to me... With LinuxPPC, Inc.'s latest press release, sounds like the production of these boards is a done deal. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: Real Time Device and kernel 2.2.11

1999-08-18 Thread Matt Porter
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Matt Porter wrote: > > > Oh, right, right! The PPC world doesn't revolve around Apple. :) > > > > Apple people do have the prestige of being extremely noisy about their PPC > > systems for b

PReP install images updated

1999-08-17 Thread Matt Porter
se the apt method to install everything after reboot. Send bugs, flames, etc... right here. -- Matt Porter Motorola Computer Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] CIBU Linux Support

Re: Real Time Device and kernel 2.2.11

1999-08-17 Thread Matt Porter
. MK48T59/559 on Motorola PReP systems. > Oh, right, right! The PPC world doesn't revolve around Apple. :) Apple people do have the prestige of being extremely noisy about their PPC systems for being such a _small_ part of the PPC chip market. The desktop folks have always been thi

Autobuilder progress

1999-08-17 Thread Matt Porter
n NMU for x86, but I don't when the autobuilder will spit our a working powerpc package. Any chance we could see something like this? Hartmut: are you taking care of that machine? -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: potato's base is broken

1999-08-12 Thread Matt Porter
ted on our internal development machines and LinuxWorld demos. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Debian/PowerPC at LinuxWorld

1999-08-10 Thread Matt Porter
For those of you at the show, the PowerPC demos at the Motorola booth run Debian. Stop by and check them out... Now if only I had time to get some powered by Debian stickers made up (with that new Swirl logo). :) -- Matt Porter Motorola Computer Group [EMAIL

Re: util-linux and hwclock

1999-08-03 Thread Matt Porter
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Matt Porter wrote: > > Not on Motorola PReP machines, does this mean it works on IBM's? > > Don't these boards have a PC style RTC? Make sure to enable CONFIG_RTC. Need new support, these are MK48T59/5

Re: About PowerPC processors

1999-08-03 Thread Matt Porter
folks and/or the CEO who will all be there. A revival of the old petition for PPC boxes would help and maybe posts (not rants) to MCG Web Forums (http://www.mcg.mot.com/linux). I think that one route to a PPC box would be if some people could convince VA or P. Computing (or another Linux hardware

Re: About PowerPC processors

1999-08-03 Thread Matt Porter
know they had a product > called `PowerStack II'... The funny thing is that engineering at MCG doesn't know what motherboards were in which "marketing name" product. We just know them as Blackhawks (Blackdogs), Comets, Utahs, etc. :) -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: util-linux and hwclock

1999-08-03 Thread Matt Porter
GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon University | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > \/ \/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: Problems with Debian-based minimal rootfs

1999-07-27 Thread Matt Porter
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 08:05:38PM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: > My guess would be that the NSS modules aren't on your rootfs. > Particularly /lib/libnss_files* and /etc/nsswitch.conf. That was it! I just had to modify nsswitch.co

Problems with Debian-based minimal rootfs

1999-07-27 Thread Matt Porter
ttyS0' Login incorrect (none) login: demo Password: login[47]: invalid password for `UNKNOWN' on `ttyS0' Login incorrect (none) login: -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: Rs6k remote boot

1999-07-22 Thread Matt Porter
to install all > the stuff @ http://master.debian.org/~porter/ I sure would love an IBM tester. I don't know if the kernel I've built has sufficient support for what iss on the IBM iron...but I can add it real quick if I get feedback. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country

Re: About PowerPC processors

1999-07-19 Thread Matt Porter
ly mirrors that structure. There will be G3/G4 based MTX's soon enough, but they won't be consumer-priced either. -- Matt Porter Motorola Computer Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] CIBU Linux Support

Re: About PowerPC processors

1999-07-19 Thread Matt Porter
you can see it for yourself. :) AFAIK, IBM still sells plenty of Linux-capable PowerPC systems. Especially since they have Cort doing the porting to them. There is a public announcment somewhere on IBM's web pages. -- Matt Porter Motorola Computer Group

PReP installation

1999-07-17 Thread Matt Porter
with the latest fixes to handle IDE and systems with legacy interrupt problems. -- Matt Porter Motorola Computer Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] CIBU Linux Support

Re: Motorola MTX

1999-07-16 Thread Matt Porter
rive", the installer will look for a type 41 partition and write the boot kernel there to make the system bootable. You can also make a bootable floppy automatically from the installer. I'm trying to free up some time to finish the PowerPC/PReP doc updates for installation, but fo

netscape yet again

1999-06-10 Thread Matt Porter
bus error. Any clues? -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

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