Re: Sarge

2005-03-12 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
Em Sat 12 Mar 2005 17:43, Michael escreveu: > the third time I booted expert video=ofonly and that went fine. I went > to execute shell script and everything worked fine. > > So my question is what is video=ofonly doing? And should I just do a > net install of sarge using this, and is that even p

correctly detecting if the gcc output is 64 bits

2004-12-18 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
The gcc build currently uses the output of "gcc print-multi-os-directory" to detect if the output from gcc is 64 or 32 bits. This fails when the 32 bits libraries are not installed in /lib or the 64 bits ones in /lib64. The attached "detect-output-format.dpatch" replaces that test with one that

building a multiarch gcc

2004-12-12 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
I have successfully build a multiarch gcc in a ppc64. To do so I made some changes to Andreas patch: 1) move powerpc64*-*-* before powerpc*-*-* in src/config-ml.in to make sure the correct option is executed. 2) use /lib32/ld.so.1 as the 32 bits linker 3) fix the "bispecs" target in t-linux64 (

debian ppc64

2004-12-02 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
Hi, I have done some work on porting debian to the powerpc64. The original post: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/10/msg00193.html I also made some bug reports to add support for the powerpc architecture. One missing is the one against dpkg (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.c

Re: 64bit PPC and Debian

2004-11-04 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
Em Qui 04 Nov 2004 06:58, Helge Kreutzmann escreveu: > Hello, > my current 64bit machine is reaching EOL and I am looking for a > replacement. One option I seriously consider is using the current > 64bit machines from Apple. > > Debian is only 32bit on all PPC machines, correct? And according to >

ppc64 port

2004-10-15 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
I have compiled a self-hosting 64 bit debian in a ibm pseries. It can be download from: ftp.las.ic.unicamp.br:/pub/debian-ppc64/debian-ppc64.tar.bz2 The biggest problem by now is in linking libpng. The linker is failing with "unresolvable R_PPC64_REL24 relocation against symbol `.png_malloc_def

ppc64 port

2004-09-22 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
I have used a gentoo install to compile many debian packages in a ibm pseries machine. All the binaries are 64 bit. In the process I have submitted some bug-reports asking for powerpc64-support: 263743, 268076, 268078 The bootstrap procedure is: compile libc in /trans compile "debian" in / but l

Re: Install woody or sarge on IBM 7025-F50

2004-09-17 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
On Friday 17 September 2004 09:28, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > If you got as far as installing the base system, you can "Execute a > shell" from the main menu and chroot into your newly installed system. > Then you can get the bootloader running manually. If you think this > should be fixed, make sur

Re: IBM RS/6000 B50: failure (with comments)

2004-08-25 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Em Qua 25 Ago 2004 10:12, Frederik Dannemare escreveu: > Hi, ... > > I will not be able to test again on a B50 for some time, unfortunately, > but let me know if you want me to try a different way of booting it (or > other suggestions) the next time, I

Re: Problem with Apache2: child segfaults

2004-08-18 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
On Wednesday 18 August 2004 09:34, Michael Flaig wrote: > Hi, > > does anyone else have problem with latest unstable apache2? Sory, it is: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=266372 > Thanks, > > mfl Rafael

Re: Problem with Apache2: child segfaults

2004-08-18 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
On Wednesday 18 August 2004 09:34, Michael Flaig wrote: > Hi, > > does anyone else have problem with latest unstable apache2? Yes: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=260927 > Thanks, > > mfl Good luck, Rafael

RFS:cross-compiler package

2004-08-18 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
I am building some cross-compilers using the crosstool scripts (http://kegel.com/crosstool/) and I think that they are generally useful to Debian. I have a new version that is based on crosstool 0.28-rc32 and also has a SPARC cross-compiler. I don't have access to any other architecture to test

Re: RFS:cross-compiler package

2004-08-10 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
Em Monday 09 August 2004 19:56, Shaul Karl escreveu: > I only tried cross compilation tools for a short time. I droped it > due to the amount of work that was required to get the deb that I was > interesting in cross compiled. Still, have you looked at dpkg-cross and > the toolchain-source debs?

RFS:cross-compiler package

2004-08-09 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
I am building some cross-compilers using the crosstool scripts (http://kegel.com/crosstool/) and I think that they are generally useful to Debian. The source package is name crosstool and it produces the gcc-powerpc and gcc-powerpc64 packages. Should add more as soon as possible. The crosstoll

how to boot a pseries

2004-08-09 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
To boot a IBM pseries (at least the b50) from the cdrom it is necessary to: 1) create a directory /etc in the cdrom and put a yaboot.conf in it 2) use cdrom instead of cd in the device line in yaboot.conf 3) create a /ppc/bootinfo.txt with Debian GNU/Linux Debian GNU/Linux boot &device;:\boot\ya

Re: Still seeing if hfsplus is reliable with recent kernels (was: Re: 2-4-21-rc3-benh0 - hfsplus)

2004-08-08 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Em Sunday 08 August 2004 15:20, Rogério Brito escreveu: > > Thank you very much. I was fearing that it could be a sign of data > corruption, but I am much happier knowing that it is only a problem with > case sensitiveness. > > Anyway, it seems that ma

no chrp partition in the powerpc iso

2004-08-08 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Who is responsible for building the iso images? debian-installer or debian-cd? I notice the the rc1 image for the powerpc does not have a chrp partition. It is necessary to boot some p-series machines. For more detains see http://lists.debian.org/deb

Re: Still seeing if hfsplus is reliable with recent kernels (was: Re: 2-4-21-rc3-benh0 - hfsplus)

2004-08-08 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Em Saturday 07 August 2004 18:37, Rogério Brito escreveu: > But the compilation still failed near the linking phase (it complained > about symbols related to jiffies not being found). I don't know what > could be the cause of the problem, but I suspect

Re: ppc64 port

2004-07-30 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Em Friday 30 July 2004 05:13, Cajus Pollmeier escreveu: > Btw - I tried the debian installer for ppc, but that machine seems to > accept 64bit code on bootup, only. Indeed. The following thread might be usefull: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/200

Re: crosstool and .rpm's

2004-07-30 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Em Thursday 29 July 2004 20:39, you wrote: > Rafael Ávila de Espíndola wrote: > Thanks. Are the extra patches inside your attached patch good > enough to contribute back to gcc mainline? > e.g. would it be sensible to do >mv debia

Re: crosstool and .rpm's

2004-07-29 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Em Wednesday 28 July 2004 01:09, Dan Kegel escreveu: > > OK. (For what it's worth, I'm also interested in supporting .deb's, > and Debian has a similar wide range of platforms.) I have done some work on generating debian cross-compilers. Currently I

ppc64 cross-compiler

2004-07-22 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
I have successfully created a minimal package with a ppc64 cross-compiler. It uses the crosstool script (http://kegel.com/crosstool/) to do the real work. To build it: 1)create a directory named crosstool-0.28-rc29 and place the following files in it: binutils-2.15.tar.bz2 crosstool-0.28-rc29.ta

ppc64 kernel package

2004-07-16 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
I was able to compile a 64 kernel debian package. The steps: 1)apply the attached patches to dpkg and kernel-package, compile and install 2)install a cross-compiler (use http://kegel.com/crosstool/) 3)apt-get install kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.7 (don't know if it is necessary) 4) export INITRD_OK=1

Re: Urgent! Yaboot died, how to rescue?

2004-07-10 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Em Saturday 10 July 2004 11:55, Sean Schertell escreveu: > I tried this: > linux root=/dev/hda11 > > But still no joy... Boot with the cdrom, mount /dev/hda11 and chroot into it. Now you may "apt-get install" a kernel. Good luck. Rafael -BEGIN

Re: Urgent! Yaboot died, how to rescue?

2004-07-10 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- (BHash: SHA1 (B (BEm Saturday 10 July 2004 11:09, Sean Schertell escreveu: (B> Oh man.. This just keeps getting dumber :-( (B> (B> You were right Sebyte, I needed to use your ISO, not the one I had. So I (B> was able to mount my fs, but then in an effort t