Re: Boot failure with ppc64 port on iMacs G5

2024-10-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Michael, On Wed, 2024-03-06 at 12:57 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > Yep, the second, older image works as expected. However, the recent one > > does not > > and I have absolutely no clue why. > > I actually tested both, and both work, but then I cited the wrong one in > my email >_< > >

Re: Boot failure with ppc64 port on iMacs G5

2024-05-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi, On Wed, 2024-03-06 at 12:57 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > p, the second, older image works as expected. However, the recent one does > > not > > and I have absolutely no clue why. > > I actually tested both, and both work, but then I cited the wrong one in > my email >_< > > So at leas

Re: Boot failure with ppc64 port on iMacs G5

2024-03-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Michael, On Wed, 2024-03-06 at 12:57 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > Yep, the second, older image works as expected. However, the recent one > > does not > > and I have absolutely no clue why. > > I actually tested both, and both work, but then I cited the wrong one in > my email >_< > >

Boot failure with PPC64 port G5 MAC Power PC

2024-03-25 Thread AurelianStoicist
Hello JPA Glaubitz,  first of all thank you forr dedicated work dealing with the problems of loading Debian 12 onto the old Mac G5 Power PC machine infrastructure.  I recently tried to install your latest iso debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso onto my Dual 1.8GhZ G5 Power PC. After burning the is

Re: Boot failure with ppc64 port on iMacs G5

2024-03-05 Thread Michael Ellerman
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > On Fri, 2024-03-01 at 12:56 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: >> That second iso boots OK for me in qemu. It boots grub and then the >> kernel loads and shows: >> >> Loading ... >> OF stdout device is: /pci@f000/mac-io@c/escc@13000/ch-a@13020 >> Preparin

Re: Boot failure with ppc64 port on iMacs G5

2024-03-01 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 03:47:26PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > The problem is that the newer image doesn't boot and currently I don't know > why because installing the exact same kernel later from the package manager > into an installed system works yields a bootable system with the l

Re: Boot failure with ppc64 port on iMacs G5

2024-03-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Michael, On Fri, 2024-03-01 at 12:56 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > OK. > > That second iso boots OK for me in qemu. It boots grub and then the > kernel loads and shows: > > Loading ... > OF stdout device is: /pci@f000/mac-io@c/escc@13000/ch-a@13020 > Preparing to boot Linux versi

Re: Boot failure with ppc64 port on iMacs G5

2024-02-29 Thread Michael Ellerman
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > Hi Michael, > > On Thu, 2024-02-29 at 17:42 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: >> > There seems to be a regression in the kernel which affects PowerPC 970 >> > machines, >> > i.e. PowerMac G5 CPUs. The issue needs to be bisected and reported >> > upstream. >> >>

Re: Boot failure with ppc64 port on iMacs G5

2024-02-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Michael, On Thu, 2024-02-29 at 17:42 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > There seems to be a regression in the kernel which affects PowerPC 970 > > machines, > > i.e. PowerMac G5 CPUs. The issue needs to be bisected and reported upstream. > > I have a quad G5 that is booting mainline happily.

Re: Boot failure with ppc64 port on iMacs G5

2024-02-28 Thread Michael Ellerman
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > On Tue, 2024-02-20 at 04:16 +0100, tuxayo wrote: >> I tried snapshots/2024-01-31/debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso >> >> And was able to start booting from usb with: >> boot usb0/disk@1:,\boot\grub\powerpc.elf >> (typed in Open Firmware shell) >> (usb0 is the t

Re: Boot failure with ppc64 port on iMacs G5

2024-02-27 Thread tuxayo
On 24-02-23 17:35, goberghen wrote: I'm not sure you'll be able to install debian with that cd image. I tried about a week ago on my iMac G5 iSight (ati x600 graphics) model, had to use 2023-05-16 image with kernel options "radeon.agpmode=1 radeon.modeset=1 video=offb:off nomodeset" in grub. Ok

Re: Boot failure with ppc64 port on iMacs G5

2024-02-27 Thread tuxayo
On 24-02-20 10:16, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: There seems to be a regression in the kernel which affects PowerPC 970 machines, i.e. PowerMac G5 CPUs. The issue needs to be bisected and reported upstream. If you have the time, I would really appreciate if you could test the various snapshot

Re: Boot failure with ppc64 port on iMacs G5

2024-02-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello, On Tue, 2024-02-20 at 04:16 +0100, tuxayo wrote: > I tried snapshots/2024-01-31/debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso > > And was able to start booting from usb with: > boot usb0/disk@1:,\boot\grub\powerpc.elf > (typed in Open Firmware shell) > (usb0 is the top port) > > Grub worked, and then

Boot failure with ppc64 port on iMacs G5

2024-02-19 Thread tuxayo
Hi again :) I tried snapshots/2024-01-31/debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso And was able to start booting from usb with: boot usb0/disk@1:,\boot\grub\powerpc.elf (typed in Open Firmware shell) (usb0 is the top port) Grub worked, and then I tried default install (the 1st option) and it started l

Re: Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-05 Thread kristofferfin
Thank you very much, it works well now. Regards, Kristoffer -- Wysłane za pomocą Tutanota, bezpiecznej i wolnej od reklam skrzynki pocztowej.

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-02 Thread Cameron MacPherson
i got the +b1 version of systemd this afternoon and its fixed On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 10:15 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hello! > > On 2/2/22 18:55, H wrote: > > Thank you Adrian! > > Try upgrading your machines, it should be fixed now. > > Adrian > > -- >

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 2/2/22 18:55, H wrote: > Thank you Adrian! Try upgrading your machines, it should be fixed now. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-02 Thread H
Thank you Adrian! On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 1:00 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hello! > > On 2/2/22 00:11, H wrote: > > FWIW, A little bit information that might be helpful: > > > > I started journald manually via /lib/systemd/systemd-journald, no error > mess

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 2/2/22 00:11, H wrote: > FWIW, A little bit information that might be helpful: > > I started journald manually via /lib/systemd/systemd-journald, no error > message > to stdout and stderr, nor journalctl output. Actually journalctl still does > not > work (empty for all services). > >

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 2/1/22 23:59, Cameron MacPherson wrote: > on my system i get > systemd[1]: Caught , core dump failed (child 210, code=killed, > status=6/ABRT) > > prior to rebooting there were messages about journald not starting. i will > see if > i can go back to an older version of systemd. That

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-01 Thread H
Thanks! Switching apt source to http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/20220119T020551Z/ saved me. On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 4:15 PM Cameron MacPherson < cameron.macpher...@gmail.com> wrote: > i got the ppc64 version 250.3-1 of libnss-systemd libpam-systemd > libsystemd0 systemd-timesync an

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-01 Thread Cameron MacPherson
i got the ppc64 version 250.3-1 of libnss-systemd libpam-systemd libsystemd0 systemd-timesync and systemd from snapshot.debian.org and installed them with dpkg -i and the system boots again after apt upgrade to 250.3-2 on reboot the machine halts before it restarts systemd[1]: Caught , dumped core

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-01 Thread H
Hi John, FWIW, A little bit information that might be helpful: I started journald manually via /lib/systemd/systemd-journald, no error message to stdout and stderr, nor journalctl output. Actually journalctl still does not work (empty for all services). But the journald seemed started logging to

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-01 Thread Cameron MacPherson
hi, on my system i get systemd[1]: Caught , core dump failed (child 210, code=killed, status=6/ABRT) prior to rebooting there were messages about journald not starting. i will see if i can go back to an older version of systemd. On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 2:33 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub..

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 2/1/22 23:11, H wrote: > Namely, systemd-journald and systemd-logind and some other less important > stuff. And, due to the fact that systemd-journald is unable to start, > journalctl -xn $service is empty for any services. It's a bit difficult to say what's wrong without any error messages. Th

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-01 Thread H
Namely, systemd-journald and systemd-logind and some other less important stuff. And, due to the fact that systemd-journald is unable to start, journalctl -xn $service is empty for any services. On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 2:09 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hell

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 2/1/22 22:47, H wrote: > If you apt update && apt upgrade, or worse, try to install debian with a > NETINST > image, by default you will be left in a broken system, complaining about some > systemd service being unable to start. To make it worse, systemd-journald is > one > of the comp

sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-01 Thread H
If you apt update && apt upgrade, or worse, try to install debian with a NETINST image, by default you will be left in a broken system, complaining about some systemd service being unable to start. To make it worse, systemd-journald is one of the components that is broken so it is a struggle to get

Re: ppc64 port and multiarch

2016-06-03 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 11:13:15AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Dear developers, > > I am using the ppc64 port with multiarch on a powerpc system > Unfortunately since the general binNMU of ppc64, it does not > work anymore for Multi-Arch: same packages. Unfortunately bi

ppc64 port and multiarch

2016-06-03 Thread Bill Allombert
Dear developers, I am using the ppc64 port with multiarch on a powerpc system Unfortunately since the general binNMU of ppc64, it does not work anymore for Multi-Arch: same packages. For example: % apt-get install libgmp10:ppc64 libgmp10:powerpc The following packages have unmet dependencies

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-04-02 Thread luigi burdo
hi guys im building all software and library with this flags on my cyrus+ > mcpu=e5500 -mno-altivec -mtune=e5500 and can say im facing little increasing of performance here. been build : mesa 11.3 dev with llvm 38 lib sdl2 qemu host ubuntu mate 16.04 tested qemu-system-i386 with sdl2 Aros guest an

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-31 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 07:59:50AM +0900, Hiroyuki Yamamoto wrote: > Hi, > > wbon...@theitmakers.com wrote: > > The current target is e5500, which means i rebuild packages with the > > following additionnal flags : -mcpu=e5500 -mno-altivec -mtune=e5500 > > > > Is there some more generic flags i c

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-31 Thread Hiroyuki Yamamoto
Hi, wbon...@theitmakers.com wrote: > The current target is e5500, which means i rebuild packages with the > following additionnal flags : -mcpu=e5500 -mno-altivec -mtune=e5500 > > Is there some more generic flags i could use ? According to binutils, opcodes of e5500 is added to ones of Book E, a

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-31 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 31, 2016, at 8:34 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 01:18:53AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: >> The altivec instructions and other optimizations speed-up significantly >> certain kinds of programs on CPUs that can use them. It would be a shame to >> loose the optimized

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-31 Thread William Bonnet
Hi, > That's actually a good question. I am guessing you could contact the > DSA team directly: > > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/resources.html#server-machines > > You still have the option to maintain this machine by yourself > (non-DSA machines are just fine: https://d

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-31 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 01:18:53AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > The altivec instructions and other optimizations speed-up significantly > certain kinds of programs on CPUs that can use them. It would be a shame to > loose the optimized versions by dropping back to the lowest common > denominator

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-31 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 30, 2016, at 10:13 AM, wbon...@theitmakers.com wrote: > Hi, > > Le 30.03.2016 17:09, Breno Leitao a écrit : >> Hi Mathieu, >> On 03/30/2016 05:40 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: So i would like to know what is the target, and if it is possible to consider supporting the "most gener

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
already given binNMU command for only ppc64 port to wanna-build >> DB at the last Friday, >> but there are many many source packages, that command takes long long >> time. >> Wait a moment. > > > We are currently rebuilding, on our side, the packages needed for the &g

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread wbonnet
Hi Hiroyuki, Thanks for your answer (and for all answers that followed). These are very good news for me. So, I'm planning that almost all ppc64 binary packages will be rebuilt as binNMU. I have already given binNMU command for only ppc64 port to wanna-build DB at the last Friday, but

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Breno Leitao
Hi, On 03/30/2016 02:13 PM, wbon...@theitmakers.com wrote: >> Do you mean setting "-mno-altivec" as a generic compiler flag for ppc64? > > Yes, that's what i mean. "-mno-altivec" and maybe some other "-mno-something" > flags, so it could run on any PPC64 cpu, even if it does not have > altivec/v

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 07:13:49PM +0200, wbon...@theitmakers.com wrote: > Yes, that's what i mean. "-mno-altivec" and maybe some other > "-mno-something" flags, so it could run on any PPC64 cpu, even if it does > not have altivec/vmx, or if it does not have the optional opcodes of the > PPC64 stan

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:06:36PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: > I am wondering if you cannot try to mimic this non-VMX CPU on QEMU using > -cpu. > > Running "$ qemu-system-ppc -cpu help" shows a lot of CPUs that are supported > in > QEMU. I am still not sure if we can exploit KVM if we use a di

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread wbonnet
Hi, Le 30.03.2016 17:09, Breno Leitao a écrit : Hi Mathieu, On 03/30/2016 05:40 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: So i would like to know what is the target, and if it is possible to consider supporting the "most generic PPC64 target", just like it is done for x86 archs ? Do you mean setting "-mn

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread luigi burdo
the best is without altivec at all. here on P5020 many programs icewasell too crash because altivec luigi Inviato da iPad > Il giorno 30 mar 2016, alle ore 17:27, Breno Leitao ha > scritto: > > Hi Mathieu, > > On 03/30/2016 05:40 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >>> So i would like to know what

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Breno Leitao
Hi Mathieu, On 03/30/2016 05:40 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> So i would like to know what is the target, and if it is >> possible to consider supporting the "most generic PPC64 target", just >> like it is done for x86 archs ? Do you mean setting "-mno-altivec" as a generic compiler flag for pp

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Breno Leitao
Hi Lennart, On 03/30/2016 11:30 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Certainly. And getting access to one of the ones that causes trouble > by not having VMX seems even harder in fact. I am wondering if you cannot try to mimic this non-VMX CPU on QEMU using -cpu. Running "$ qemu-system-ppc -cpu help"

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 04:41:40PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Lennart Sorensen > wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 04:26:59PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > >> Let me rephrase that in: "Wow somebody (user)tagged specifically with > >> ppc64 the nouveau b

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 04:26:59PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> Let me rephrase that in: "Wow somebody (user)tagged specifically with >> ppc64 the nouveau bugs" ... :) >> >> This was not clear. But the offer to ppc64 machine(s) was m

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 04:26:59PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Let me rephrase that in: "Wow somebody (user)tagged specifically with > ppc64 the nouveau bugs" ... :) > > This was not clear. But the offer to ppc64 machine(s) was made by the > ppc64el people: > > https://lists.debian.org/debi

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:40:52AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> Well that's odd. Anyway feel free to report the bug and assign it the >> usertags to ppc64: >> >> https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?tag=ppc64&user=debian-p

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Hiroyuki Yamamoto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, William, William Bonnet wrote: > ./ Is there a defined "minimal" target for the PPC64 port ? I have > understood that VMX support is not enabled [1] (please tell me if i am > wrong). But VMX is not the only optional fea

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:40:52AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Well that's odd. Anyway feel free to report the bug and assign it the > usertags to ppc64: > > https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?tag=ppc64&user=debian-powerpc%40lists.debian.org Wow, 5 out of 11 bugs are to do with

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-30 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi, On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:54 PM, William Bonnet wrote: > 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

RE: PPC64 port status

2016-03-29 Thread luigi burdo
will be better ;-) Luigi > To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > From: will...@wbonnet.net > Subject: PPC64 port status > Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 20:54:37 +0200 > > Hi all, > > I am currently working (office work) on a project using PPC64 based > boards, each b

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

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-09 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 14:27:02 -0200 Breno Leitao wrote: > Hi Konstantinos, Hi Breno, > Thanks for being interested in it. I am also willing to help. > > Why not using a remote VM on a new POWER machine hosted at Unicamp? Already have 2 of those, one ppc64el and one ppc32 (but on ppc64 hardware)

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-09 Thread Breno Leitao
://openpower.ic.unicamp.br/minicloud/ On 02/02/2015 06:22 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 09:44:44PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'd like to help on the ppc64 port, I have ppc32 hardware, >> ppc64/ppc64el remote VM accounts but no actual p

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port [SOLVED]

2015-02-09 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 21:44:44 +0200 Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to help on the ppc64 port, I have ppc32 hardware, > ppc64/ppc64el remote VM accounts but no actual ppc64 hardware. I > just lost an extremely low bid for an imac g5 on ebay and am short &

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-03 Thread Risto Suominen
Hi Konstantinos, 2015-02-03 22:07 UTC+02.00, Konstantinos Margaritis : > > If the offer still stands, I will send you a private message to arrange > this. > Yes, it does. Risto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-03 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 11:59:34 +0200 Risto Suominen wrote: > Hi, Hi Risto, > It's DDR (400). I'm afraid it cannot be expanded over 2 GB. 2GB is fine for what I'm after. And after reading about Xserve fan noise levels on Google (and hearing it on youtube :), I think I can confirm that my wife woul

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-03 Thread Herminio Hernandez Jr.
x1.8GHz, GeForce FX 5200, only >>>> 512MB RAM but a fast 74GB WD Raptor w/ 10000 RPM, a bluetooth module and >>>> a SuperDrive) but it works fine. >>>> >>>> Unfortunately it comes in a very large box (60cm x 60cm x 45cm) and it >>>> weighs a

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-03 Thread Luigi Burdo
gt; a SuperDrive) but it works fine. >>> >>> Unfortunately it comes in a very large box (60cm x 60cm x 45cm) and it >>> weighs about 26kg. >>> >>> I'm located in Germany, so I figure shipping inside the EU will be >>> around 100€ to 150€. &

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-03 Thread Boris Reinhard
s in a very large box (60cm x 60cm x 45cm) and it > >> weighs about 26kg. > >> > >> I'm located in Germany, so I figure shipping inside the EU will be > >> around 100€ to 150€. > >> > >> Is this machine of interest to you? > >> &g

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-03 Thread Clemens Dürrschmidt
gt;> >> Is this machine of interest to you? >> >> Best regards, Clemens Dürrschmidt >> >> >> >> >> On 02/02/2015 08:44 PM, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'd like to help on the ppc64 port, I have pp

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-03 Thread Chris Wareham
machine of the same type that I might have to «recycle» within a couple of year I would be more than happy to donate it help with the ppc64 port (in particular head-less/CD-ROM less installation, as you might guess). The main cost would be transport, if it is not too far/expensive (I'm in

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-03 Thread Risto Suominen
Hi, 2015-02-03 11:38 UTC+02.00, Konstantinos Margaritis : > > That would be a nice choice, if it's in a working condition I can > fix/replace the fans, do you know if the system is DDR/DDR2? It's DDR (400). I'm afraid it cannot be expanded over 2 GB. Risto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-p

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-03 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 01:09:34 +0100 Clemens Dürrschmidt wrote: > Hi, Hi Clemens, > Unfortunately it comes in a very large box (60cm x 60cm x 45cm) and it > weighs about 26kg. > > I'm located in Germany, so I figure shipping inside the EU will be > around 100€ to 150€. > > Is this machine of in

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-03 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 14:10:04 -0700 "Sandeep G.R" wrote: > We have G5 running with Ubuntu-12.04 in our office but not sure if > anyone need it for development. In case no one is using we can sell > it for you. I'm using T4240QDS and T4240RDB from Freescale and its > very faster compared to G5. I ha

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-03 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 09:29:26 +0200 Risto Suominen wrote: > Hi, > > I know about an iMac G5 that might be available. It's the original 17" > model with 1,6 GHz CPU, 2 GB of RAM, 80 GB HD. The fans are often a > bit noisy, I'm not sure if that's normal. > > The postage would be 43 EURO (up to 10 k

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-03 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
mpute > node»), but since I have a few other machine of the same type that I > might have to «recycle» within a couple of year I would be more than > happy to donate it help with the ppc64 port (in particular > head-less/CD-ROM less installation, as you might guess). > > The main

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-02 Thread Serge Cohen
to «recycle» within a couple of year I would be more than happy to donate it help with the ppc64 port (in particular head-less/CD-ROM less installation, as you might guess). The main cost would be transport, if it is not too far/expensive (I'm in Paris region, France) I could check with my

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-02 Thread Risto Suominen
Hi, 2015-02-02 21:44 UTC+02.00, Konstantinos Margaritis : > > I'd like to help on the ppc64 port, I have ppc32 hardware, > ppc64/ppc64el remote VM accounts but no actual ppc64 hardware. I > just lost an extremely low bid for an imac g5 on ebay and am short > on cash for anothe

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-02 Thread Boris Reinhard
nside the EU will be > around 100€ to 150€. > > Is this machine of interest to you? > > Best regards, Clemens Dürrschmidt > > > > > On 02/02/2015 08:44 PM, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'd like to help on the ppc64 port, I have ppc

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-02 Thread Frank Fegert
Hello, On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 03:55:15PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Unfortunately the build servers at work are busy being build servers, > so can't do too much experimenting on those, other than in chroots. > One is a p520 and the other a p710. Those are very nice as PPC build > machines.

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-02 Thread Clemens Dürrschmidt
I'd like to help on the ppc64 port, I have ppc32 hardware, > ppc64/ppc64el remote VM accounts but no actual ppc64 hardware. I > just lost an extremely low bid for an imac g5 on ebay and am short > on cash for another, but if anyone has a spare G5 (any model, but pref > imac so that

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-02 Thread Sandeep G.R
We have G5 running with Ubuntu-12.04 in our office but not sure if anyone need it for development. In case no one is using we can sell it for you. I'm using T4240QDS and T4240RDB from Freescale and its very faster compared to G5. I have Debian & Ubuntu running on T4 boards if you need any help let

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 10:48:20PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > It should be quite faster, and the ppc notebook above will use an e6500, > but that will have to wait for a while. In the meantime, I would be fine > with a used iMac G5, I was almost going to get one minutes ago but I > was

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-02 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 15:22:01 -0500 "Lennart Sorensen" wrote: > I guess no one is selling IBM pSeries servers used for cheap. > > Are any of the freescale eval boards reasonably priced? After all any > e5500 or e6500 core is PPC64 as well. It seems a T1040 eval board is > $1250 US for a 1.4GHz qu

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 09:44:44PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to help on the ppc64 port, I have ppc32 hardware, > ppc64/ppc64el remote VM accounts but no actual ppc64 hardware. I > just lost an extremely low bid for an imac g5 on ebay and am

wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-02 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Hi all, I'd like to help on the ppc64 port, I have ppc32 hardware, ppc64/ppc64el remote VM accounts but no actual ppc64 hardware. I just lost an extremely low bid for an imac g5 on ebay and am short on cash for another, but if anyone has a spare G5 (any model, but pref imac so that it can be

Re: About VMX/Altivec support in Debian ppc64 port

2013-02-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 09:31:59PM +0900, Hiroyuki Yamamoto wrote: > Hi, All. > I am a ppc64 porter, Hiroyuki Yamamoto. > > Because ppc64 port is NOT a official port yet, > please DON'T report to official BTS the bugs which have NOT a relation to the > packages AT

Re: About VMX/Altivec support in Debian ppc64 port

2013-02-16 Thread Hiroyuki Yamamoto
Hi, All. I am a ppc64 porter, Hiroyuki Yamamoto. Because ppc64 port is NOT a official port yet, please DON'T report to official BTS the bugs which have NOT a relation to the packages AT ALL, and which have a relation ONLY to porting to ppc64 port, Instead, please report to this debian-po

Re: About VMX/Altivec support in Debian ppc64 port

2013-02-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
cially since you have way less than 4GB ram. The code size increase from the larger pointers will probably hurt performance instead. I believe the ppc64 port has chosen a baseline that requires altivec which means if you don't have it, stick with plain ppc. Certainly altivec is a useful feature if

About VMX/Altivec support in Debian ppc64 port

2013-02-15 Thread Liang Guo
Hi, List, I'm working to run Debian ppc64 ports on my xbox360 box, but failed to setup a chrooted environment with "Illegal instruction" error. After some dig on this problem, I found this is caused by PowerPC vector instrunctions, and according to the build log[1], the package do compile with "

Re: Helping with PPC64 port: missing coreutils in sid

2012-05-07 Thread Hiroyuki Yamamoto
(2012-05-08 07:50 -0300), Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > Hi, folks. Hi, > I would like to start contributing to the PPC64 port, since I have > access to some machines. > > When trying to debootstrap from debian-ports, I find that the sid > Packages file has coreut

Helping with PPC64 port: missing coreutils in sid

2012-05-07 Thread Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
Hi, folks. I would like to start contributing to the PPC64 port, since I have access to some machines. When trying to debootstrap from debian-ports, I find that the sid Packages file has coreutils (and maybe all other packages in unreleased?) missing. unreleased, on the other hand, does not have

Re: Application for using debian-ports infrastructure for ppc64 port

2011-12-25 Thread MiB
25 dec 2011 kl. 15.45 skrev Hiroyuki Yamamoto: I am planning to restart Debian ppc64 porting. Now, I finished preparing the packages for buildd. This sounds great. Keep us posted! Let me know if you need testpiloting on Dual 2.0 G5. /MiB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-req

Application for using debian-ports infrastructure for ppc64 port

2011-12-25 Thread Hiroyuki Yamamoto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I am planning to restart Debian ppc64 porting. Now, I finished preparing the packages for buildd. deb http://yamamoto.fam.cx/debian unreleased main So, I would like to apply for using debian-ports infrastructure for ppc64 port. I will open

Application for using debian-ports infrastructure for ppc64 port

2011-12-25 Thread Hiroyuki Yamamoto
Hi, I am planning to restart Debian ppc64 porting. Now, I finished preparing the packages for buildd. deb http://yamamoto.fam.cx/debian unreleased main So, I would like to apply for using debian-ports infrastructure for ppc64 port. I will open the details of ppc64 porting at http

Re: ppc64 port gone?

2011-02-27 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 01:02:49PM +, Hector Oron wrote: > Hi Hiroyuki, > > 2011/2/27 Hiroyuki Yamamoto : > > Hector Oron wrote: > >> You said so a while back. Is this effort happening at some public > >> site, would not be best try to use debian-ports.org or similar > >> infrastructure? Be ca

Re: ppc64 port gone?

2011-02-27 Thread Hector Oron
Hi Hiroyuki, 2011/2/27 Hiroyuki Yamamoto : > Hector Oron wrote: >> You said so a while back. Is this effort happening at some public >> site, would not be best try to use debian-ports.org or similar >> infrastructure? Be careful with patches in BTS, those need to be >> properly tagged and are like

Re: ppc64 port gone?

2011-02-26 Thread Hiroyuki Yamamoto
Hector Oron wrote: > You said so a while back. Is this effort happening at some public > site, would not be best try to use debian-ports.org or similar > infrastructure? Be careful with patches in BTS, those need to be > properly tagged and are likely to bitrot if there is no proper > maintainance.

Re: ppc64 port gone?

2011-02-26 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, 2011/2/27 Hiroyuki Yamamoto : > Hector Oron wrote: >>   It looks like ppc64 port is no longer hosted in alioth, >>   <http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/> Also mailing list has been removed, so dropping -CC >>   Does someone have a copy of ppc64-debian chroot

Re: ppc64 port gone?

2011-02-26 Thread Hiroyuki Yamamoto
Hi, Hector Oron wrote: > It looks like ppc64 port is no longer hosted in alioth, > <http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/> > > Does someone have a copy of ppc64-debian chroot and / or patches? I am preparing to restart ppc64 port, so I am posting peculiar patches of

ppc64 port gone?

2011-02-26 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, It looks like ppc64 port is no longer hosted in alioth, <http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/> Does someone have a copy of ppc64-debian chroot and / or patches? Cheers, --  Héctor Orón "Our Sun unleashes tremendous flares expelling hot gas into the Solar System, wh

Re: ppc64 port

2009-04-21 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, >> The only problem >> I had was trying to run IBM 64 bit SDK3.0 for CELL (from Barcelona's >> Supercomputing Center) on 32 bit Debian. > > There ain't much of 64-bit external depends in IBM SDK, since it > brings in most of the stuff. Off the top of my head I remember only > libnuma (beside

Re: ppc64 port

2009-04-21 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Hector Oron wrote: > The problem on ppc 64 bit architecture was that Debian already has a 32 > bit port and it is more efficient on 64 bit architectures, because it > uses more efficiently L2 cache on non FP instructions. Yeah, I know :) I currently wonder if it i

Re: ppc64 port

2009-04-21 Thread Hector Oron
Hi Wart, I have been running ppc64 port from http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/ and it was fine when I tried it. > While digging through d-i, I've noticed some signs of ppc64 port > (which was, as far as I remember, a heroic attempt to make a 64-bit > userland Debian port)

ppc64 port

2009-04-21 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
Hi there. While digging through d-i, I've noticed some signs of ppc64 port (which was, as far as I remember, a heroic attempt to make a 64-bit userland Debian port). Do we actually need it and is anybody going to support/maintain it? -- Regards, Wartan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

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

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