Re: Bug#731069: gcc-defaults: Please resume considering to change using unified version of gcc

2013-12-02 Thread Sven Luther
for helping out on the powerpc port, so i could also give a hand on the powerpc toolchain. I don't have a powerpc board handy right now though, and since i am no more DD, i don't know upto what point i can get acces to a developer board (or who to ask). Friendly, Sven Luther On Mon, De

Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 04:58:25PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2013-10-14 10:06, Sven Luther wrote: > > [...] > >>> I don't know upto what point you are familiar with my history and its > >>> link to the powerpc > >>> port, but it pains m

Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 11:11:56PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2013-10-06 16:25, Sven Luther wrote: > > Hi Niels, > > > > Hey, > > (Dropping -devel and -ports in exchange for -powerpc; sounded like you > weren't subscribed to -powerpc, so direct CC for yo

Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-06 Thread Sven Luther
Friendly, Sven Luther On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 09:45:35AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > Hi, > > The final results are in: > > Summary table: > Arch || DDs || NMs/DMs || Other || Total > ---++-++-++---++-- > armel || 3 |

Re: Recent posts to -powerpc

2007-08-22 Thread Sven Luther
e behind us, and all go back to happily coding for the best of the debian distribution we love and are proud of. Sad that this continues to this day, and that all those debian developers who say "they are the only ones that count" cannot understand nothing but menaces and censor

Re: please help investigate potential gcc / kernel ICE on powerpc32 machines in lenny/sid.

2007-08-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:00:29AM +0200, xavier grave wrote: > Le mardi 21 août 2007 à 13:28 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 01:25:32PM +0200, xavier grave wrote: > > > Le mardi 21 août 2007 à 11:34 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > > > > Hi,

Re: please help investigate potential gcc / kernel ICE on powerpc32 machines in lenny/sid.

2007-08-21 Thread Sven Luther
those haters who are unable to communicate and have no single clue about solving social problems. This will probably mean no ps3 support and no efika support in debian, even though i am currently doing the work for this support. Sadly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Sven Luther removed from the debian-kernel project

2007-08-21 Thread Sven Luther
; decided to remove Sven Luther from the kernel project. And whyever that ? Do you have a single reason for this action ? > The problems between Sven and the remain of the team did not decrease in Can you tell me what those problems are ? > the last months. He decided to ignore a Nack on

Re: please help investigate potential gcc / kernel ICE on powerpc32 machines in lenny/sid.

2007-08-21 Thread Sven Luther
; > hour or two, it will either ICE or not. > > OK I'll do that right now. Cool, thanks. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: please help investigate potential gcc / kernel ICE on powerpc32 machines in lenny/sid.

2007-08-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 01:25:32PM +0200, xavier grave wrote: > Le mardi 21 août 2007 à 11:34 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > > Hi, ... > > > > I ask for volunteers to help investigate the bug > > Hi, > > I have a debian unstable 32 bits (dual 1GHz G4) here at

please help investigate potential gcc / kernel ICE on powerpc32 machines in lenny/sid.

2007-08-21 Thread Sven Luther
or normalization of this mess, despite my continuous good will and appeals at conciliation. Sadly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PReP booting

2007-08-15 Thread Sven Luther
x27;m close. Anyways, I'm > making progress and that's far better than being stuck with a mis > configured AIX system. Thanks for that valuable bit of information. One > step closer. If you provide the kernel patches or configuration you applied, we could aply them to the de

Re: PReP booting

2007-08-15 Thread Sven Luther
it out ? Did you file a bug report ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PReP booting

2007-08-15 Thread Sven Luther
econd disk with ext3. I sure wish I'd done all this before > rebooting. > > Anyways, I need to know what to put on the PReP partition and how to get > it there. Am I even close? not really. We need more information about your setup though to help you more clearly. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation from USB flash drive failing - libc/relocation error

2007-08-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 06:12:54PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 12:03:41AM +1000, Nigel O'Brian wrote: > > > > I am trying to install from Debian Testing netinst iso on an old > > Powerbook G4 using the 'hd-media' kernel, initr

Re: Installation from USB flash drive failing - libc/relocation error

2007-08-09 Thread Sven Luther
reluctant to > claim a bug. But I do see some earlier reports of installation > problems with libc and wonder if this is related. I am seeing the same problem with todays netboot image, so i suggest you file a bug report against d-i or something. I suppose that the current d-i are built with an incompatible libc or an mklibs problem. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: S-ATA on RS/6000

2007-08-08 Thread Sven Luther
os in them, at least not the cheapest you can find. Maybe finding a card which is mac compatible will help there, not sure, i will have to investigate and do some testing. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lacking modules/2.6.22-1-powerpc/kernel/drivers/input/serio/i8042.ko

2007-07-30 Thread Sven Luther
ivers/input/serio/i8042.ko): > No such device > > > did this only happened to me? > i'd better re-install? You don't need serio/i8042 on an ibook. It will break prep/chrp/pegasos though. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which kernel is good for my Powerbook G3?

2007-07-26 Thread Sven Luther
bunch of libraries installed. So, i am unsure if you can go down to 1.3GB or not. Maybe you should just install a base system first, and then install xfce by hand ? Also remember to count some disk space for swap space. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Which kernel is good for my Powerbook G3?

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
use, and i suppose that BootX can boot your old kernel, but it is good to have a pair of miboot d-i images handy for rescue purpose or something. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The future of the debian/powerpc port ...

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 06:21:36AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > - i was expulsed from debian on Frans Pop's request a few months ago, > > when the ban started. > > [etc, etc, etc] > > The ban on -powerp

Re: Ban for debian-powerp on Sven Luther lifted.

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
e if we can work around those political hurdles. Please show that you can also provide positive and constructive comments, and not just political rants, and participate in that other thread. /me is amazed how so many people ask me to not mention the ugly politcal aspects, and engage in political ran

Re: Ban for debian-powerp on Sven Luther lifted.

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 06:23:28AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > You are joking, right ? Frans did not leave anything, he still rules > > unopposed on d-i. > [...] > > Whoah, whoah, whoah, take it somewhere else. This is exact

Re: The future of the debian/powerpc port ...

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 06:21:36AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > - i was expulsed from debian on Frans Pop's request a few months ago, > > when the ban started. > > [etc, etc, etc] > > The ban on -powerp

Re: Ban for debian-powerp on Sven Luther lifted.

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 12:06:57PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Selon Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 07:57:18AM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > > > But... > > > Sven, I think it would be better to let the story rest in

Re: The future of the debian/powerpc port ...

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 06:49:52PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:05:41AM +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > > > > In both cases, the main point is work force, people interested in > > contributing, and able to give some of their time for it. > &g

Re: Ban for debian-powerp on Sven Luther lifted.

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:05:03AM +, Cord Beermann wrote: > Hallo! Du (Sven Luther) hast geschrieben: > > > Given that it was Frans Pop who started all this, that he was the one > > asking for my expulsion from debian (which debian's leadership agreed > > to), i

The future of the debian/powerpc port ...

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
want to work with me, despite being incapable of actually replacing the work i had done. So i ask for understanding and to accept my apologizes if i have inconvenienced you. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ban for debian-powerp on Sven Luther lifted.

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 07:57:18AM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 12:57:34AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > We just lifted the ban on Sven Luther on this list. > > Thanks, > > Yes, great! :) > > > > As you might see in the A

Re: Ban for debian-powerp on Sven Luther lifted.

2007-07-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 10:43:01PM +, Cord Beermann wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: Debian - Listmaster > X-message-Flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri, but it can do mail too. > > Hi. > > We just lifted the ban on Sven Luther on this list. Th

Re: Builds disturbed by the usage of a 64bit kernel.

2007-05-30 Thread Sven Luther
omends, this is not what the PowerPC linux experts recomend. > >If apt-get is called with the linux32 tool, does it suppress > >cross-compiling ? > > No. You still don't have a fully 32-bit system. > You need an emulator for that. Powerpc is perfectly able to run 32 bit c

Re: Powerbook5,7 (G4 17") and USB 2.0 disk drive

2007-05-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 08:54:46PM +0200, Mich Lanners wrote: > Hi all, > > On 24 May, this message from Sven Luther echoed through cyberspace: > > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 01:16:24AM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > >> On Thu, May 24 2007, at 00:27 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiff

Re: Different Apple machines, different USB behavior [ was: Re:

2007-05-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 07:17:44PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Powerbook5,7 [ ... ] > Reply-To: > In-Reply-To: > X-Spoken-Languages: en, de > X-URL: http://www.wolfgangpfeiffer.com > > Hi Sven, Hi All > > On Thu, May 24 2007, at 07:27 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:

Re: Powerpc netinst CD when selected install64 installs only powerpc not powerpc64 kernel image!

2007-05-24 Thread Sven Luther
er did his job correctly, or use the rescue menu item. If the d-i folk had not been so much preocuped with their witch-hunt, this kind of problems would not be happening. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Powerbook5,7 (G4 17") and USB 2.0 disk drive

2007-05-23 Thread Sven Luther
disk powered from only the USB connector *CANNOT* work. > And yes: the digikam and the cellphone can be connected/mounted to > this alubook ... :) Because they are less power hungry. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Powerbook5,7 (G4 17") and USB 2.0 disk drive

2007-05-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 05:04:43PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 23 May 2007 22:50:45 +0200 > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The USB specs mention 0.5 A at 5V, so around 2.5W. This is not eno

Re: Powerbook5,7 (G4 17") and USB 2.0 disk drive

2007-05-23 Thread Sven Luther
remember well. Just get yourself an enclosure which provide both USB and firewire, and use the firewire one on your mac. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Builds disturbed by the usage of a 64bit kernel.

2007-05-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 04:46:04PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Fri, May 18, 2007 at 07:37:07AM +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > > > > Do you know what exactly is causing this problem ? Or could you list the > > 140 packages which you already detected to be proble

Re: Builds disturbed by the usage of a 64bit kernel.

2007-05-17 Thread Sven Luther
has gotten a serie of patches applied to some packages for his pure-64 effort. I wonder if this effort helps in this case, or causes problems. Do you know what exactly is causing this problem ? Or could you list the 140 packages which you already detected to be problematic ? Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: Grub2: How safe is it?

2007-05-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:53:06AM +, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2007 11:00:09 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Just make sure you have a debian-installer media ready before you do the > > try. > > Downloaded, just in case. > > Anyway the package gr

Re: Grub2: How safe is it?

2007-05-17 Thread Sven Luther
ough i never tried it. > Is there anyone who tried it instead of yaboot? Is it safe to install? > Are there any particular precautions, other than read the docs that come > with the package? It used to work two years ago when i tried it on my pegasos, not sure how it has evolved since t

Re: Building the powerpc archive on a machine having ppc64 in its uname output.

2007-05-11 Thread Sven Luther
now separated the threads > accordingly. Good luck to Voltaire in his trip. > > Le Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:45:59AM +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 06:34:31PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > > > But I have another concern. In my experi

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-11 Thread Sven Luther
I am trying to do this, but due to my low level, I do not know > when I will succeed. Feel free to overtake me ! As said, ubuntu does this regularly since years. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:02:26AM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:30:55AM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote: > > > Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > > Ok, where is the debian powerpc64 machine, which is needed for th

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:30:55AM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Ok, where is the debian powerpc64 machine, which is needed for the > > > > multiarch powerpc port ? > > > > > > Where is the official multiarch powerpc por

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-11 Thread Sven Luther
do with those powerpc64 machines > discussed in this thread. Mmm, i may be wrong, but the subject still is : Subject: Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 09:27:01AM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > But basically, you are telling me that i should take my server, and fork > > debian. Well, i guess given how i have been handled lately, i am > > seriously considering this. The debia

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 08:31:22AM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > > The DSA team does not add random machines. There is no ppc64 port, > > > there is no need for ppc64 machines, there are powerpc build daemons > > > and there's a powerpc por

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 08:25:18PM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > But the DSA team have refused to even consider those augsbourg machines, > > probably because they where overloaded, and unwilling to share the work, > > a bit like it is happening with t

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-09 Thread Sven Luther
ware was proposed, but ignored or rejected. I myself have a dual G5 XServe machine online at a datacenter a kilometer from my home, which could be used as a buildd, but i have been suspended, and seen as the devil incarnate by those in power, so ... Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:19:26PM +0800, William Xu wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:18:01PM +0800, William Xu wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> In order to get airport extreme working, i just built linux-

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-26 Thread Sven Luther
the actual kernel. Maybe you have a dangling symlink or something ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OFF-TOPIC: debian-powerpc or debian-boot for d-i issues [was:

2007-04-21 Thread Sven Luther
the work i used to do ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-powerpc or debian-boot for d-i issues [ was Re: Install 4.0 r0 "Etch" on IBM p5 510 inside LPAR ]

2007-04-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 11:22:27AM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20 2007, at 23:04 +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:42:00PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 19 2007, at 23:08 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > >

Re: OFF-TOPIC: debian-powerpc or debian-boot for d-i issues [was:

2007-04-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 12:35:58PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi All > > On Fri, Apr 20 2007, at 22:46 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:42:00PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > Hi All > > > > > > On Thu, Apr

Re: Install 4.0 r0 "Etch" on IBM p5 510 inside LPAR

2007-04-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:42:00PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi All > > On Thu, Apr 19 2007, at 23:08 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:40:51PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 19 2007, at 15:05 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: >

Re: Install 4.0 r0 "Etch" on IBM p5 510 inside LPAR

2007-04-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:40:51PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19 2007, at 15:05 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:03:22PM +0200, Gottfried Scheckenbach wrote: > > > Hello to all, > > > > This is the wrong list to h

Re: Install 4.0 r0 "Etch" on IBM p5 510 inside LPAR

2007-04-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:03:22PM +0200, Gottfried Scheckenbach wrote: > Hello to all, This is the wrong list to handle installer related issues. The right way is to send an installation report to the BTS. or at least cross post to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Responsiveness issue(s)

2007-04-11 Thread Sven Luther
pping disks let me take the 'hdparm -T' > number to the PB? The slow one, the faster one is just a measurement of the speed of the memory cache, which is unless i am wrong the main memory. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Responsiveness issue(s)

2007-04-11 Thread Sven Luther
as you would think. You need a special star-shaped screw-drivers, and there is some nice instruction manual on apple's web site. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Simplified booting of Debian install CD on IBM PowerPC servers - Suggestion

2007-03-29 Thread Sven Luther
ht persons, or simply filled bug reports. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A friendly plea for Linux PPC help!

2007-03-16 Thread Sven Luther
which are from etch seem to be in a constant state of disarray. (unless of > course someone has fixed them) There may still be some working floppies at : http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i. I was asked to remove that old archive, but it would be interesting to save those variants that sti

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird for PowerPC?

2007-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
find where they are! > The Mozilla site only seems to know about Linux on Intel. They are neatly debian packaged, but because of some stupid trademark dispute with mozilla, debian was forced to change the name of firefox to iceweasel if we wanted to be able to offersecurity support and other such.

Re: Success with Motorola Powerstack II

2007-03-09 Thread Sven Luther
imitation. fbdev > doesn't do anything either but the Cirrus gpu - removed BIOS chip from > the card - that is in in right now works with cirrusfb at least on the > terminal. > > If you plan to run X too and get it working, I would be overjoyed to > hear how. :) You coul

Re: Success with Motorola Powerstack II

2007-03-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:00:09PM +0100, Christian Walther wrote: > On 02/03/07, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:26:29AM +0100, Christian Walther wrote: > >> Hi list, > >> > [...] > > > >Cool, you used an etch

Re: Success with Motorola Powerstack II

2007-03-02 Thread Sven Luther
to see that what you did is well documented, and submit a bug report if there are troubles, or even a patch ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unable to boot Motorola Powerstack II

2007-01-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:14:09AM +0100, Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister wrote: > Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 20:49 schrieb Sven Luther: > > > you somehow don't get prep-installer, please fill a bug report. > > I'm considering that, but first I want to make sure that th

Re: unable to boot Motorola Powerstack II

2007-01-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:59:18PM +0100, Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister wrote: > Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 09:56 schrieb Sven Luther: > > Last post here except one, due to my self-imposed ban asked by Fabio's > > mediation attempt. > > Let's hope this will be sorted

Re: retiring from debian until end of february ...

2007-01-02 Thread Sven Luther
st a few stubborn people in key position, who have something against me personally, but they also were not able to find a replacement for me, despite strong words of people like Holger. No more mails now, but i wanted to clarify that me being silent for 2 months on the lists doesn't necessarily m

retiring from debian until end of february ...

2007-01-02 Thread Sven Luther
please reply to the post above, so others will see it to, and maybe feel ashamed about their handling of this problem. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unable to boot Motorola Powerstack II

2007-01-02 Thread Sven Luther
ler is not being run on your box, including the /proc/cpuinfo output. > I admit that I'm a i386 sissy, clearly I'm doing something wrong here. Or > maybe it's just a misunderstanding of the firmware syntax? Im really puzzled. Nope, it is just that you need to boot from a PReP partition. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB blocked under 2.6.18

2006-12-30 Thread Sven Luther
the problem ? And also provide output of dmesg and the content of /var/log/syslog ? Preferably the last lines after inserting an usb device. This may be related to udev breakage i have been seeing recently. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Who is actively porting the Debian architectures?

2006-12-30 Thread Sven Luther
rea. This is in big part due to the fact that powerpc is mostly a mainstream arch today, and most issues have been solved long ago. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ports, big and small, two questions

2006-12-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 10:34:29AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Dec 27, 2006, at 3:47 AM, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > >Terrasoft {YellowDog Linux} > > > > >They are selling non-ppc apple though. > > > Don't you mean "non-Apple ppc&quo

Re: ports, big and small, two questions

2006-12-27 Thread Sven Luther
the playstation III kernel patches into it, or the cell-targetting toolchain for that matter. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Who is actively porting the Debian architectures?

2006-12-27 Thread Sven Luther
ere): > > > > Roger Leigh > > Alexander Wirt > > Sven Luther > > Michel Daenzer > > Colin Watson > > Mark Brown > > Holger Levsen > > > > Given the rumors powerpc would be dead, I suggest to name them all :) > > Hi all, > >

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 07:05:46AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > Hi Sven, > > > On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:16 AM, Sven Luther wrote: > > >What is really needed is for confirmation with the current kernels > >that : > > > > 1) miboot booting works (or not).

Re: create Apple_bootstrap and Apple_partition_map partitions with sfdisk ?

2006-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
y to script creation of parttions on apple new world machines ? Please use parted or any libparted based frontend (qtparted, gparted, gnu-fdisk, d-i's partman). Most distros use such a solution. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &qu

Re: unable to boot Motorola Powerstack II

2006-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
t? Is it possibly a debian bug? Motorola Powerstack II works fine with sarge. The CD install method is not supported though, but the netboot install is needed. You need to download the /powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-prep.initrd, put it on your tftp server and netboot it with : boot enet:,vmlinuz-prep.ini

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-19 Thread Sven Luther
us what works and what doesn't. And file a bug report against the kernel packages (linux-2.6, title prefaced [powerpc,oldworld]). Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 11:21:53PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Friday 15 December 2006 21:37, Sven Luther wrote: > > Notice that the 2.6 sarge d-i image had a bug which was later fixed in the > > etch/sid version. It has to do with calling mkvmlinuz i think,

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 11:21:53PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Friday 15 December 2006 21:37, Sven Luther wrote: > > Notice that the 2.6 sarge d-i image had a bug which was later fixed in the > > etch/sid version. It has to do with calling mkvmlinuz i think,

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
ce that the 2.6 sarge d-i image had a bug which was later fixed in the etch/sid version. It has to do with calling mkvmlinuz i think, instead of simply gzipping it by hand. Holger, can you backport the little change from the sid branch, this should fix it. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IBM js20 etch amdk111 ide bus

2006-12-13 Thread Sven Luther
n etch cd > with amdk111 support? Is it included in the 2.6.18 kernels currently present in debian/sid and debian/etch ? If not, this is probably an error. Can you provide me with the CONFIG option to set, and i will enable it in the next build of the kernel packages, which will add official suppo

Re: Newest powerpc install disks not booting

2006-12-12 Thread Sven Luther
ther busy with RL work, so please ask this on debian-boot instead. In general it is best to cross post these questions to debian-powerpc & debian-boot. Wouter, Frans and Holger are those more involved in those matters, and thus make sure they get involved. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Happy success with LVM and RAID

2006-12-03 Thread Sven Luther
fscked up my drives. Never had a problem with JFS despite > many power failures. We made the choice for EXT3 ourselves, since it is the only filesystemm which can be grown online and shrinked offline, and reiserfs is not really a solution. JFS/XFS can be grown online, but not shrinked, so

Re: g5 imacs now silent?

2006-12-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 10:52:13AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Thursday 30 November 2006 18:06, Sven Luther wrote: > [#397942] > > > If this is correct, this bug can be closed. Is it correct? > > The bug should be retitled and reassigned to initramfs-tool

[powerpc] Apple G5 windfram based fan control modules not included or loaded in initramfs-tools generated ramdisks.

2006-12-02 Thread Sven Luther
times, to load the fan control modules ? At worst, you can load the same modules as is done in d-i. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 01:53:01PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 05:48:55PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 11:03:41AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > Hi fellow debian-powerpc users, > > > > Once more, some infl

Re: g5 imacs now silent?

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
comment on : #397973: [powerpci/mac] partman-md appears to not write back the raid flag to partitions. Maybe it would be worth to raise the severity of this bug, but i can hardly do this, or i will be seen as whiner who ups the severity of his pet bugs, can i ask you to have a look at them ?

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
e only reason I care about this info in the release notes for RC1, is to > have this issue solved (by documenting a workaround) in etch as well. In > unstable it's fixed. You did notice that i did mention that fact in the reply to frans call for review on the RC1 erratas, right ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 04:16:42PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Thursday 30 November 2006 15:30, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > #394970: finish-install: [powerpc64] Add support for IBM serial > > I didn't, because > > [1, 2 & 3 - basically

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
to build in the past in my experience, altough i haven't done this for some time now, and it may be fixed. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 12:17:07PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Sunday 26 November 2006 15:09, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > currently shiping powerpc hardware are : > > > > IBM pseries : not really supported, patch sitting without comment > > &g

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
of attilio, eddy, and others from this list, but still graphical d-i will not be officially included in etch d-i for etch. Maybe you could give a hand with those issues ? Or those others you mentioned ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
h that tell people how to manually turn the fans silent. it has them, and i added the info about this issue to the message of frans asking for info for the erratas, i don't know if in the end it was added or not, i know frans decided to remove some of my errata entries. Friendly,

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-27 Thread Sven Luther
the work. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PowerMac G4 : how to enable the server mode ?

2006-11-27 Thread Sven Luther
gt; > How to enable the server mode ? On the XServe it is : echo server_mode=1 >/proc/pmu/options but needs to be redone on every reboot. (Thanks to benh for giving me this info in the first place). Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-27 Thread Sven Luther
:) > Absent this, powerpc users can only file 'this is broken' bugs. Should be > done anyway, IMO. Yeah, but if i don't fix them, who will, like : #397973: [powerpci/mac] partman-md appears to not write back the raid flag to partitions. Open since 16 days, and not a single comment on it. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-27 Thread Sven Luther
your version when filing bug reports against > stock powerpc d-i. Maybe that will get someone's attention. A rising > number of bug reports stating 'broken in d-i but works fine with Sven's > build' could convince those of more rational leaning. Yep, but i would need to for

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