I never understood why PTE entries waste 4 bits (WIMG)
for effectively very few valid combinations.
The only invalid combinations are WI=11 -- if you know of
a way to fit 12 combinations in fewer than 4 bits, let us
know :-)
Not all of those 12 are very useful, of course.
Segher
--
To UNSUB
Actually, there is no RTC chip _at all_ in NewWorld Macs. The PMU
itself keeps the time (from a 32768Hz clock).
So from a technical point of view, the PMU is the RTC chip, right?
Not really, it's a very different mechanism. But you could say it
is yeah, if you don't mind being sloppy ;-)
S
No, that's VIA as in Versatile Interface Adapter, not as in VIA
Technologies.
It used to be a separate chip in the old 68000 days, but now it's
integrated in
some Mac fabric (e.g. Mac I/O).
Actually, there is no RTC chip _at all_ in NewWorld Macs. The PMU
itself keeps the time (from a 32768Hz
Michel Dänzer wrote:
> FWIW, top uses about 0.3% here (the 2.6 kernel might help there),
> gnome-terminal and the X server less than 1% together.
Okay, another datapoint... PowerBook3,2 500MHz, 2.4.20-ben10,
30 processes, no load. top -d1 takes 2.9% cpu, top -d0.5 takes
5.6%.
Starting X... 37
> Oh, and the yaboot config is a bit of a pain because Apple can't seem to
> make up their minds about what to call the devalias for the firewire
> controler. On the iBook it's fw, the G4 fwx, I think it's back to fw on the
> G5, maybe.
It only was fwx on some older systems, for which the built
Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 00:42, Nirmal Govind wrote:
> > Hi.. I've noticed that the XFree86 process on my ibook is taking up a
> > decent chunk of memory and some CPU and this seems to be slowing down my
> > machine a bit .. when I do 'top', XFree86 is a process that's consta
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
I suspect we should probably just expose the PMU i2c bus to userland
some way and have a userland tool to deal with that, I'm not too fan
of doing a kernel driver... I also have not much time.
We _already_ expose it to userland, via the generic PMU
interface. And
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
What we would need now is for somebody to port uBoot's emulator to some
userland app in Linux, and actually try to see if we can get an x86
typical Radeon card to boot in a Mac or not...
While that might be a reasonable short-time plan, what
we *really* need is for
Jeroen Roovers wrote:
As I said before, if your Mac has Open Firmware, you can
(theoretically, which means I've read about it :-) use a serial
It works fine. Do note to use 57600 baud on newer machines,
not 38400 as the Apple technotes say.
connection to get to a boot prompt, and if Linux is
Michel Dänzer wrote:
Yes, I was just looking what happens. Deep inside I was hoping that
recording capability might perhaps be added with not too much effort.
How about Darwin, couldn't we borrow some code of their driver, or
is this code not freely available?
I doubt it, but as Segher pointed
digger vermont wrote:
On the alsa mailing list I've asked if the reason for no recording is
due a lack of specs for the sound chip or a lack of desire and time on
the developer end. I've yet to get a response. Does anyone here know?
The docs for the current Mac sound chips are publicly
availabl
Oliver Ripka wrote:
.LC0://I guess this means .LC0
.LC0 is a label.
.string "Hello World" //is a global string
Outputs a string to object code. It can be accessed
via the label .LC0 .
.globl main //within the main label.
Declares 'main' as a global symbol (it wil
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
The stwu will do r1=r1-32 and store old r1 there (stack pointer). This
will basically sets up the stackframe for the function. The LR is backed
up in r0 (the return address) and stored in the stackframe. r31 is a
non-volatile register, since the compiler thinks it wi
Brad Boyer wrote:
Do you actually have a document for the official ABI? I found a link
to a document in some old messages, but it was a dead link. A generic
search of the web didn't turn up anything, although I might have
been searching for the wrong words...
System V application binary interfa
Sven Luther wrote:
> So you think that the north-bridge could be an Apple-IBM common design ?
It's an Apple design.
> The rest is not as important, as it is connected trough a HyperTransport
> bus, so any HT chip will do. The funny thing is that they have a special
> PCI-X bridge sitting betwee
Michel Dänzer wrote:
I wonder why i2c-keywest doesn't get loaded for you.
Because an iMac G3 doesn't need it? ;-)
If I was him, I'd try disabling the emu10k crap he enabled...
Segher
Krisztian Mark Szentes wrote:
Hi
I wonder why there is no /proc/cpufreq on my Titanium PowerBook G4 (400 MHz).
Because no-one filled in the right values yet.
In linux-2.4.20/arch/ppc/platforms/pmac_cpufreq.c it says:
/* Currently, we support the following machines:
*
* - Titanium Power
Michel Dänzer wrote:
(IMHO libvorbis is broken for not defaulting to native endianness, but
that's another story)
Why don't you file a bug at bugs.xiph.org? Please do.
Segher
Matthew Buckett wrote:
That is not a headphone socket -- it is a line-level socket.
Ok, not being an audio person, what is the differnce between a line
level socket and a headphones socket?
Different voltage, different impedance.
Is a headphone socket for devices without build in amplifiers
Matthew Buckett wrote:
I'm running debian woody on a iMac 350 (slot loading) and I seem to get
problems with the sound when it is sent through the headphones socket on
the right of the machine. The sound is rough, not crackly, it's
That is not a headphone socket -- it is a line-level socket.
Chris Tillman wrote:
nvsetenv boot-device hd:2,\\:tbxi
This tells OpenFirmware to look on the second partition of the main
hard disk for a blessed startup file.
Blessed has nothing to do with it.
Segher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I try to install debian on a iBook. I have an external firewire hard drive on
which I want to put debian. I created a HFS+ partition and put the following
files: yaboot, yaboot.conf, linux.bin and root.bin.
Now I try to boot on this partition. What is the openfirmwire com
Brett Carter wrote:
Nope, I believe recording works on the 'clipper' chipset (tibooks v1 &
v2), but not yet on the 'snapper' chipset (ti v3 & above).
"v2" (PowerBook3,3) uses the "Tumbler" chipset (TI TAS3001C),
"v3" and up (PowerBook3,4 and up) use the "Snapper" (TI TAS3004).
I didn't hear the
José Salavert Torres wrote:
Well this is not an error or question about linux but I thought that ths
was the best place to ask.
I'm searching for information about powermacs architecture in order to
make a work for the University and It's eery difficult for me to find
information related to last
Martin Kuball wrote:
The problem of course is to find out what kind of bus your machine uses if
it's a laptop. Well, trial and error obviously revealed that my iBook uses
ADB.
All (reasonably new) Apple laptops use ADB.
Segher
Gabriel Paubert wrote:
If you're going to reimplement the delays using the
time base, why not use the KeyLargo timer instead?
And tie the bus on repeated I/O trying to read the timer, fighting
perhaps with another processor on SMP?
No thanks.
The pci/33 bus is much slower than the arbus/max
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
If you're going to reimplement the delays using the
time base, why not use the KeyLargo timer instead?
It runs at the same frequency (18.432MHz) on all
machines, so that'll save a multiply ;) Too bad for
the non-Macs, but else you'll have to special-case
the 601 (a
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 02:07, paubert wrote:
Well, the timebase and decremeter are part of the PPC architecture.
I'm not sure things like 4xx implement them "as-is"...
It is part of the user-level 32-bit PEM -- they better
implement it :)
BTW for the "53 MHz PB
J Q Private wrote:
I do _not_ have pbbuttonsd running.
Pardon my ignorance, but I thought I needed pbbuttonsd
to get F1 and F2 to change brightness.
The PMU handles F1 and F2 itself, unless that function
is disabled. Works fine for me. I believe this only
works for builtin displays, thoug
Clive Menzies wrote:
My G4 is at least a couple of years old (Sawtooth?) AGP Gigabit - so it
That's "Mystic", one revision newer than Sawtooth.
Segher
Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
This is kind of a survey for PowerPC Linux users.
Is it OK to make 32-bit PowerPC apps bigger and
slower to allow for running them on IBM's 64-bit
hardware? This would hurt everyone running Linux
on a Mac.
My vote is *NO*.
Why not have the people running such systems u
J Q Private wrote:
>
> Minor note:
>
> I read, early on, that I'd have to type the alt/option
> key first, then Fn, then F[1-7] to get the different
> consoles, and that worked. Hitting Fn before
> alt/option does not.
Cmd-left and Cmd-right is easier.
> But once X starts, it does not work anym
micro-people wrote:
>
> just curious, but
>
> is there a vi friendly (or oriented) mailer out there ?
> have been a debianppc newbie for years @ iBook-Tangerine
> and wanna keep this machine promt-mode only
You might like elm (elm-me).
Segher
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 11:14, Scott McMahan wrote:
> > I'm looking for a way to adjust the screen settings on my iMac. I've
> > search the list/newsgroups and the answers I've found don't work on CRTs
> > (fblevel) or don't really address the right problem (xgamma
Gabriel Paubert wrote:
>
> On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Heissu wrote:
>
> >Hi!
> >
> > I want to do that is in the subject. Everyone can help me?
> >
>
> eject cd
>
> Gabriel.
>
Or, if you just want to boot from a different cdrom, hold OPTION-EJECT.
Segher
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, David Ulrich wrote:
> > Does the debian kernel support for the memory interleaving on a
> > PowerMac 9500? (2.4.18 SMP)
>
> Isn't memory interleaving a hardware feature that's independent of software?
Depends. Usually it's configurable on your h
"Albert D. Cahalan" wrote:
> Don't add an option. Just do the eject. Even a PC user will like that.
> It's also nice to notice the new disk immediately, instead of waiting
> for the user to press enter or similar.
*Please* don't eject without asking first; some people have laptops,
and you too eas
marco wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have no sound here.
> Added my user to audio. Could you tel me what to do ?
>
> ## ls -la /dev/dsp
> crw-r--r--1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp
>
> ## ls -la /dev/mixer
> crw-r--r--1 root audio 14, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev/mixer
chmod g+w
> My TiBook relativeléy often resets the time to 1904, which is also too
> far off for ntp to correct it. I then need to manually adjust it, before
> I can sync it with ntp.
>
> It seems this happens every time the PMU gets reset, regardless of
> battery availability. At least this TiBook _does_ h
> Actually, even Apple's own drivers are not fully open source. Some of
> them are, some of them aren't (the PMU driver isn't, the temp control
> and fan drivers aren't, the new machines ATA/100 controller driver
> isn't, etc...)
The temperature and fan controllers have nice specs; can't find the
> i get that too. i'll be scrolling down, or whatever, and it keeps
> scrolling down. only if i'm scrolling down, though, which i find
> strange.
It happens for me on other keys, too. And it misses the shift/ctrl/whatever
release sometimes, too. It's just that you keep key-down pressed more ofte
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