Re: Altivec in baseline for ppc64?

2021-07-13 Thread William Bonnet
Hi On 13/07/2021 21:35, Karoly Balogh wrote: > Just to note it here, this CPU family is also used by some relatively > recent desktop-class PowerPC machines, like A-Eon's AmigaOne X5000 (and > its "CyrusPlus" motherboard). So it's not just about the support of some > obscure embedded dev board.

Re: Altivec in baseline for ppc64?

2021-07-13 Thread William Bonnet
Hi, >> I am however not sure that my current choices for the ppc64 and powerpc >> baselines are optimal, hence this thread. If i can help you i'll be happy to. I have several Powermac G5 running current Debian i can use one to test your packages as long as you tell me please a little about the

Re: Bug#741663: linux-image-3.13-1-powerpc-smp: therm_windtunnel does not load correctly

2021-04-29 Thread William Bonnet
sure how this is relevant to the question whether the bug was fixed >> or not in the Debian kernel package. > Not relevant. It was just to say that the tester's job has become much > easier meanwhile. > -- William Bonnet GPG : 7189 DC8E 15B9 B3E4 EA3E 902B 8EAC

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-31 Thread William Bonnet
hines are just fine: https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi) Thanks, i am going to write to the DSA team. Is there some specific documentation to read about binNMU contributions ? (i mean something else than https://wiki.debian.org/binNMU) Cheers W. -- William BONNET CTO & Founder / The IT Makers

PPC64 port status

2016-03-29 Thread William Bonnet
Hi all, I am currently working (office work) on a project using PPC64 based boards, each board is running a NXP e5500 processor. We plan to use Debian, and thus the PPC64 port. So, I have tested the version from debian-ports, it is almost working, but it seems that packages have been compiled with