Will any or all of these guys work flawlessly wit debian-ppc ?
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On 5/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> voltaire.debian.org, our venerable but still reliable build daemon,
> has been living in my apartment for a number of years. I'm moving
> house shortly, though, and won't be able to host it in my new home.
> So it needs a new guardian.
> |
> |I have been running the Solaris project Blastwave.org for five years
> |and it would be trivial to add in one more machine.
> |
> |I'm in Canada however.
> |
> |Dennis
>
a bit like it is happening with the arm or sparc ports, where new
hardware was proposed, but ignored or rejected.
I
annoying. Harmless. Mostly harmless?
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On 9/30/21 05:57, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On 9/30/21 11:20, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> Hardly an issue that seems to affect day to day operations. At least
>> from what I can see. However I do see the package is referenced here:
>> (...)
>&
course, the fans being their full speed noises.
So, any ideas on what to type at that prompt?
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On 3/27/22 17:07, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On Mar 27, 2022, at 10:51 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
On 3/25/22 03:43, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Then the machine DOES NOT boot.
I see :
Welcome to GRUB!
error: symbol `grub_disk_native_sectors' not found.
grub r
G **: Configuring 'grub-installer'
failed with error code 1
Mar 27 21:59:13 main-menu[292]: WARNING **: Menu item 'grub-installer'
failed.
se --no-rename
Not sure what to make of that.
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GreyBeard and suspend
On 3/27/22 18:40, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On Mar 28, 2022, at 12:15 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
I just the normal process of booting the netinst DVD image and used
the default NOT-expert menu option. I see the usual message :
Could be that the hfsprogs-udeb package is missing on
On 3/27/22 18:40, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On Mar 28, 2022, at 12:15 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
I just the normal process of booting the netinst DVD image and used
the default NOT-expert menu option. I see the usual message :
Could be that the hfsprogs-udeb package is missing on
nd perhaps the previous syslog and partman files I submitted
will shed some light. Otherwise a very stable machine that usually
just runs fine is now quite dead until further notice.
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On 3/27/22 22:25, Ken Cunningham wrote:
Your log said that you saw this:
grub-install: error: filesystem on /boot/grub is neither HFS nor HFS+
I have no idea what the filesystem on /boot/grub might be, but it should be HFS
or HFS+ for this to work.
So, assuming you are using the blessed ISO a
On 3/27/22 22:25, Stan Johnson wrote:
On 3/27/22 7:56 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
...
The 64bit netinst seems to work fine until we get to the GRUB install
stage and perhaps the previous syslog and partman files I submitted
will shed some light. Otherwise a very stable machine that usually
just
On 3/28/22 01:59, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello!
On 3/28/22 00:14, Dennis Clarke wrote:
I just the normal process of booting the netinst DVD image and used
the default NOT-expert menu option. I see the usual message :
Unable to install GRUB in /dev/sda3
Executing '
On 3/28/22 01:59, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello!
On 3/28/22 00:14, Dennis Clarke wrote:
I just the normal process of booting the netinst DVD image and used
the default NOT-expert menu option. I see the usual message :
Unable to install GRUB in /dev/sda3
Executing '
On 3/28/22 03:23, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 3/28/22 09:18, Dennis Clarke wrote:
I can only guess that the partition step worked :
https://i.imgur.com/izFmDCe.png
Did you actually switch to a second console and checked there is an
HFS partition, i.e. by running:
# mount | grep
On 3/28/22 03:23, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 3/28/22 09:18, Dennis Clarke wrote:
I can only guess that the partition step worked :
https://i.imgur.com/izFmDCe.png
Did you actually switch to a second console and checked there is an
HFS partition, i.e. by running:
# mount | grep
Red background always during install :
https://i.imgur.com/ja5SI2x.png
Strange but true :\
Same thing I saw last year and the year before that etc ...
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Also very strange. It should be blue.
However the machine runs great. Stable as a rock. When we get an install
done of course. ha ha
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the second disk.
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On 3/28/22 03:56, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 9:52 AM Dennis Clarke wrote:
Red background always during install :
https://i.imgur.com/ja5SI2x.png
Strange but true :\
Same thing I saw last year and the year before that etc ...
Can you check that radeonfb module was
On 3/28/22 04:04, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 3/28/22 09:56, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Can you try with one of the hard drives removed?
That would be somewhat difficult tonight. I have it in a stack with
another silver Power_Xeon_Mac under it and a system running on top of it
etc etc etc
On 3/28/22 04:13, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 10:00 AM Dennis Clarke wrote:
On 3/28/22 03:56, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 9:52 AM Dennis Clarke wrote:
.
.
.
Computer says no. :) sorry.
I checked /proc/modules and there is no radeon to be
ful things.
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On 3/28/22 14:42, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On Mar 28, 2022, at 8:38 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
With great thanks to John Paul Adrian Glaubitz we see new test images
have landed :
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-28/
Therefore I shall jump on that
On 3/28/22 14:42, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On Mar 28, 2022, at 8:38 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
With great thanks to John Paul Adrian Glaubitz we see new test images
have landed :
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-28/
Therefore I shall jump on that
On 3/28/22 18:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi!
On 3/28/22 22:58, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Works like a charm!
Good to hear!
Indeed. I am still unsure how I landed in this spot but it all started
with the dreaded nvram --update-config boot-device="" step. That gave
me
ateway-ip=
default-subnet-mask=
default-router-ip=
boot-script=
aapl,pci=
boot-args=
aapl,tdm-units=
ram-size=0x2800
boot-once=
boot-last-label=Linux
root@enceladus:~#
Thing of beauty.
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TINST are less than 500MB.
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ago somewhere in the Linux ver 4.x kernel.
Have you given consideration to a fresh up to date install of Debian?
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n facilities for all emacsen
root@enceladus:~#
I have heard from good sources that the x86_64 pkg is borked also.
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/man/man1/hpfsck.1.gz
enceladus#
nada ... rein ... nichts
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Dear ppc types :
I have downloaded and booted and installed from the ports area the
following :
see https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/ports/
also debian-9.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso
I went for the "easy" install and simply allow the installer to put
everything onto the whole
On 10/13/2017 04:04 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Oct 11, 2017, at 9:16 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Everything went along fine until reboot wherein I see an unknown or corrupt
filesystem message :
Try installing with “use entire disk and set up LVM” (or words to that effect)
at partitioning
WARNING : long and winding but full of examples.
This is quite confusing with gcc 7.2.0 on latest ppc64 sid.
nix_$ uname -a
Linux nix 4.13.0-1-powerpc64 #1 SMP Debian 4.13.4-1 (2017-10-01) ppc64
GNU/Linux
nix_$ gcc --version
gcc (Debian 7.2.0-11) 7.2.0
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Found
y on earlier hardware. It does, however, work perfectly
on the Sparc architecture.
I am looking into this closely and will have some results in a day or
so.
Dennis Clarke
On 10/23/2017 11:19 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 10:55:34PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
WARNING : long and winding but full of examples.
So the comment mentions pi = 3.14159265358979323846264338327950280e+00L
while you use pi_ld
On 09/02/18 05:34 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 02/09/2018 11:30 AM, Bas Vermeulen wrote:
mator on #debian-ports compiled gcc-7 for me with the attached patch.
With the resulting gcc, I compiled glibc and got a library I can use
sqrtf without running into an illegal instruction excepti
On 09/02/18 08:34 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Just for posterity...
PowerMac G5 here :
ppc_nix$ hexdump -C
/sys/firmware/devicetree/base/rom@0,ff80/boot-rom@fff0/BootROM-version
24 30 30 30 35 2e 32 37 66 31 00 |$0005.27f1.|
000b
ppc_nix$
ppc_nix$ h
This is something that needs to be discussed. A single user alone shouldn't
warrant such major change in a port. You always have to keep in mind that
changing the default compiler options also has potential impact on the
performance on more modern ppc64 systems like Apple Macintosh.
Not sure
Dear ppc types :
I searched around on https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac as
well as a few other places and thought I should ask before going
further. I have built kernel 4.15.6 on x86 a few times and installed it
twice on two debian buster alpha systems today. No issues. Same proce
Dear PPC types :
So I carefully built kernel 4.15.6 and created the needed
initrd.img-4.15.6 in /boot with update-initramfs and checked it
carefully against the pre-existing initrd.img-4.13.0-1-powerpc64 for
Debian buster/sid. Everything looks great and my objective was to
poke around the RFI f
On 04/03/18 07:37 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Hi Dennis,
Hi Frank and thank you for the reply. I was worried I would hear nothing
but silence on this mail list. Sometimes that happens and I think your
email has really shed light on the some issues. I think.
On 03/04/2018 04:11 AM, Dennis
On 03/04/2018 11:00 PM, Brock Wittrock wrote:
Dennis,
You'll definitely want to make sure to retain the windfarm module ...
Yes indeed. Somewhere in the dusty regions of my memory I did recall
checking fan speed and cpu temps via the windfarm module data. So, that
is definately a keeper.
Denn
On 03/05/2018 02:12 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 4:11 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Dear PPC types :
So I carefully built kernel 4.15.6 and created the needed
initrd.img-4.15.6 in /boot with update-initramfs and checked it
carefully against the pre-existing initrd.img
This has been happening for weeks with a simple apt-get update :
.
.
.
Reading package lists... Done
W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository
is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error:
http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unstable InR
ppc64_l4.15.9# apt-key list
gpg: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so.7: undefined
symbol: PC
ppc64_l4.15.9#
Any thoughts from anybody ?
Never mind ... I see the issue here. Of course I always see
it *after* I email the maillist ... seems to be always the way.
Had to move
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc89WTEh-jE
ever since I connected with the guys in the Six Nations
It seems that I have annoyed the runtime loader in that something as
simple as a shutdown now issues these concerns :
nix ppc64# shutdown -r "now"
shutdown: /usr/local/lib/libblkid.so.1: no version information available
(required by /lib/systemd/libsystemd-shared-235.so)
shutdown: /usr/local/li
Follow up to myself :
On 28/03/18 11:10 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
It seems that I have annoyed the runtime loader ...
https://i.imgur.com/QEHuxYd.jpg
This problem results in a warm brick with windfarm howling.
Dennis
On 28/03/18 01:00 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi Dennis!
Have you tried dist-upgrading your system?
I spotted systemd 235 and maybe the binary was built with a broken binutils
version which can happen and cause weird crashes and corrupted binaries.
Thank you for the suggestion and
On 28/03/18 03:26 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
On 28/03/18 01:00 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi Dennis!
Have you tried dist-upgrading your system?
I spotted systemd 235 and maybe the binary was built with a broken
binutils version which can happen and cause weird crashes and
corrupted
Silly question. I tried to test a bit of _Float128 datatype stuff and so
I installed the only libquadmath lib I could find.
nix$ dpkg -L libquadmath0-ppc64el-cross
/.
/usr
/usr/powerpc64le-linux-gnu
/usr/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/lib
/usr/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/lib/libquadmath.so.0.0.0
/usr/share
/
On 04/04/18 02:57 PM, Breno Leitao wrote:
Hi Dennis,
On 04/04/2018 03:31 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Silly question. I tried to test a bit of _Float128 datatype stuff and so
I installed the only libquadmath lib I could find.
nix$ dpkg -L libquadmath0-ppc64el-cross
Are you using ppc64 or
On 05/04/18 01:24 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 04/05/2018 12:01 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
So there we see "--disable-libquadmath --disable-libquadmath-support".
damn. :-(
Please file a bug report against Debian's gcc-5, gcc-6, gcc-7 and gcc-8
packages if
On 12/04/18 01:39 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
On 05/04/18 01:24 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 04/05/2018 12:01 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
So there we see "--disable-libquadmath --disable-libquadmath-support".
damn. :-(
Please file a bug report against Debian's gcc-5, g
>
> Working on it :
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895452
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82686
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2018-04/msg01351.html
nix$ cat pq.c
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600
/* #include */
#include
#include
#include
#include
On 17/04/18 09:53 AM, Gabriel F. T. Gomes wrote:
Hi, Dennis.
On Tue, 17 Apr 2018, Dennis Clarke wrote:
nix$ cat pq.c
Where does this test case file come from?
Here, there, my head, where ever.
It was a long day and I had been trying all manner of variations
in order to get something
The last bugid 82686 no longer applies really.
Thus https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85440
I may be making noises in the mail list(s) but I really am trying to
figure out the mess. If older powerpc type hardware just does not
work then such is life and I will go fetch an IBM Power s
On 17/04/18 09:53 AM, Gabriel F. T. Gomes wrote:
Hi, Dennis.
On Tue, 17 Apr 2018, Dennis Clarke wrote:
nix$ cat pq.c
Where does this test case file come from?
Are you asking the same question over and over again on purpose?
It is a trivial test. So it came from my coffee cup.
Here
Curious if anyone else sees htop report close to 0% CPU utilization for
pid's while the machine is seriously busy at nearly 100% usage.
see https://i.imgur.com/VDaiZRm.png
Dennis
see https://i.imgur.com/VDaiZRm.png
Never mind .. duh .. I see the output is sorted by PID and not
CPU usage. Wonderful how I notice that immediately after posting
to a mail list :-\
dc
On 18/04/18 05:47 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 04/18/2018 11:43 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
see https://i.imgur.com/VDaiZRm.png
Never mind .. duh .. I see the output is sorted by PID and not
CPU usage. Wonderful how I notice that immediately after posting
to a mail list :-\
You are
Merely an FYI ... the word on the street is that GCC 8 will provide a
solid implementation of libquadmath to ppc64. We also know that the
newer IBM Power line will have some hardware implementation for the
new 128-bit floating point type. Not sure if anyone else is thrilled
by this but for me
Note: We aren't removing 970 (aka G5) support, only server POWER4.
Be advised that I have gone in very big circles with gcc 7.3.0 and the
test variants for gcc 8 on an old IBM 970 Power ISA v.2.03 spec G5 unit.
Some weird things happen if one tries various options on the GCC manual
for "IBM
On 17/04/18 09:53 AM, Gabriel F. T. Gomes wrote:
Hi, Dennis.
On Tue, 17 Apr 2018, Dennis Clarke wrote:
nix$ cat pq.c
Where does this test case file come from?
nix$ grep "FLT128_DIG"
/usr/local/gcc7/lib/gcc/powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu/7.3.0/include/float.h
#undef FLT128_D
On 05/26/2018 06:18 PM, Matti Palmström wrote:
Hi
How do you read the cpu temperature from TAU on an iMac mini G4 (MPC7447a)?
According to /boot/config-4.16.0-1-powerpc it is compiled with TAU on
CONFIG_TAU=y
but I can't find a way to read it. I've tried with lm-sensors but no go
there.
Rega
to wonder why there is not a Debian release in some
form or fashion? There seems to be little available for powerpc which
is big endian whereas ppc64le seems to be quite popular.
Dennis Clarke
Yes, as announced by DSA, the powerpc buildds have been shut down:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2018/06/msg4.html
Tears in all directions. At least from those of us that love our risc
architectures.
We are currently in the process to properly move powerpc to Debian
Ports.
On 06/28/2018 04:40 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 06/28/2018 10:35 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
It is perfectly possible to install the last supported 64-bit release and then
dist-upgrade to sid and everything seems to run just fine. I am having no
troubles ( nothing fascinating other
On 06/28/2018 05:09 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 06/28/2018 11:08 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
This is just the kernel. Your userland is still 32-bit, I assume:
dpkg --print-architecture
root@nix:~# dpkg --print-architecture
ppc64
The ppc64 port was neither part of this discussion
On 06/28/2018 05:33 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 06/28/2018 11:27 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
The original discussion was around powerpc which is 32-bit.
Just taser me.
That was not my intention at all
I'm having fun and if you google me ... you know I support open source
pro
On 08/24/2018 09:31 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I just loaded the latest Debian-ports powerpc64 installer on a PowerMac
dual-core G5 that I had lying around.
It installed kernel 4.16.0-1-powerpc64 from the CD. After the install
finished, I did an update/upgrade and that installed kernel 4.17.0-3-
On 08/25/2018 04:10 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Aug 24, 2018, at 9:26 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
On 08/24/2018 09:31 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I just loaded the latest Debian-ports powerpc64 installer on a PowerMac
dual-core G5 that I had lying around.
It installed kernel 4.16.0-1-powerpc64 from
On 08/25/2018 06:41 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Aug 25, 2018, at 7:54 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
The bucket of things I see back on 4.15.0 are :
4.15.0-2-powerpc64@nix# uname -a
Linux nix 4.15.0-2-powerpc64 #1 SMP Debian 4.15.11-1 (2018-03-20) ppc64
GNU/Linux
4.15.0-2-powerpc64@nix# lsmod
boot and run a
linux kernel and a userland on a toaster or twenty year old HP Kayak PC
if you like. I know that I have.
Dennis Clarke
[1]
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/fe313521-2e95-46f2-817d-44a4f27eba32/entry/More_FAQs_about_Little_Endian_An_Update?lang=en
[2]
https://ww
Make sure you build initrd with
MODULES=dep
and not "all" modules
via /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/* or in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
as well CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=n in kernel config.
I usually trim down the config to the minimal and then merely throw
"make modules_install" after t
Again, too much ranting. If you think all is lost and putting efforts
in Debian Ports is pointless, you're in the wrong forum.
Efforts in debian ports isn't pointless. One should make a distinction
between working with a platform with a future and a platform from the past.
Dennis
> Everyone knows that we are more or less doing retro-computing here ...
Thank you for giving it a name. Retro-computing. Very cute.
dc
On 08/26/2018 07:08 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 8/26/18 1:06 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Everyone knows that we are more or less doing retro-computing here ...
Thank you for giving it a name. Retro-computing. Very cute.
Are you being sarcastic?
Not at all. Not in the least
Why would I want to through out working computers and replace them with
new ones, just because the new ones happen to be little endian?
I have no such desire.
I have ppc64 and arm7 boxes laying about for experimental reasons as
well as educational reasons.
Dennis
Now, the question is: Why? What has changed between 4.16 and 4.17 that makes
this necessary? And, is it a bug or a feature?
To finally get back to you about this "windfarm" business I can tell you
that an out-of-the-box build of the latest stable kernel results in all
the expected windfa
On 08/25/2018 04:10 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Aug 24, 2018, at 9:26 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
On 08/24/2018 09:31 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I just loaded the latest Debian-ports powerpc64 installer on a PowerMac
dual-core G5 that I had lying around.
Have a look around for something called
On 08/27/2018 05:18 AM, Bas Vermeulen wrote:
Hi Dennis,
Your modules aren't stripped, which is what causes the huge initrd.
Try:
make INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 modules_install
instead of
make modules_install
to fix this.
A switch to just the required "dep" modules resulted in a small enough
initrd
On 08/27/2018 09:54 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 8/25/18 10:54 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
2) Firefox segfaults when I start it, either from command line or from the
system menu. Is this a known bug? Are there any other graphical (i.e.,
non-text-mode) browsers I can use
On 08/27/2018 11:09 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 8/28/18 5:08 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Guess not.
Explanation here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00060.html
Oh, FWIW, you need to install the version from experimental.
# apt install firefox -t=experi
On 08/27/2018 09:53 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I can try just about anything on my G5. It exists strictly for testing, right
now.
If you can point me to a .deb with the patch that I can install, I’ll be happy
to test it.
That code seems to be a G4 related item :
/*
* Creation Date: <2003/
On 09/03/2018 04:42 AM, Wolfram Sang wrote:
The bug is “status: NEEDINFO”, so I assume it’s not fixed yet. In the
meantime, manually loading the windfarm modules is a tested workaround.
Does this workaround work for you, too?
"However, there is a workaround: In addition to CONFIG_I2C_POWER
On 09/03/2018 03:51 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 9/3/18 9:43 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Seems to work fine so long as there is a monitor attached at boot time.
If there isn't then the whole system goes into loud windfarm mode and is
a warm brick.
Did you test the patch by Wo
On 09/04/2018 02:42 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Sadly, I don’t have the expertise to build a patched kernel.
If you can point me to a patched kernel .deb file, I’ll be happy to install it
and report on the results.
Building and installing a kernel isn't that difficult but the creation
of a ".de
On 09/04/2018 02:38 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Hi Mathieu,
I’m sorry that I don’t have the expertise to apply a patch and build a kernel.
I am looking for testers for the following patch:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741663#20
Did that ... it works? Has been working for a
On 09/04/2018 03:53 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
On 2018-09-03 9:43 p.m., Dennis Clarke wrote:
Seems to work fine so long as there is a monitor attached at boot time.
If there isn't then the whole system goes into loud windfarm mode and is
a warm brick.
This is due to yaboot's ofboo
On 09/03/2018 04:42 AM, Wolfram Sang wrote:
The bug is “status: NEEDINFO”, so I assume it’s not fixed yet. In the
meantime, manually loading the windfarm modules is a tested workaround.
Does this workaround work for you, too?
"However, there is a workaround: In addition to CONFIG_I2C_POWER
On 09/24/2018 10:18 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Sep 21, 2018, at 9:51 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
On 09/03/2018 04:42 AM, Wolfram Sang wrote:
The bug is “status: NEEDINFO”, so I assume it’s not fixed yet. In the
meantime, manually loading the windfarm modules is a tested workaround.
Does this
On 10/03/2018 02:35 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Thanks for the reply, Dennis!
On Oct 2, 2018, at 7:21 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
On 09/24/2018 10:18 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Sep 21, 2018, at 9:51 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
On 09/03/2018 04:42 AM, Wolfram Sang wrote:
Merely a follow up.
I
On 10/03/2018 03:52 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Oct 3, 2018, at 12:19 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
I gather you have the 4-core version.
Looks like just dual core. I don't think the IBM 970ppc was ever quad core.
Sorry… I said “core” when I should have said “processor”. You have
On 08/25/2018 04:10 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Aug 24, 2018, at 9:26 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
On 08/24/2018 09:31 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I just loaded the latest Debian-ports powerpc64 installer ...
From the better late than never pile.
So I built and installed 4.18.12 twice. Documented
On 10/12/2018 04:16 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 10/12/18 9:54 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
How about this… You send me your detailed notes from making the kernel;
There is extensive documentation on this topic available [1].
Adrian
[1]
https://kernel-team.pages.debian.net/kernel-han
On 10/12/2018 10:28 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 10/12/18 4:10 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
That page speaks of many things but clear instructions are not among them.
That whole page speaks in riddles and strange incantations that don't
really mean anything. The next full moon is
This all started because of this thing :
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/macintosh?id=3e7bed52719de4b5b5fb900869e293eae0bc3f3e
Which gets referenced here :
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199471
I still don't know if it works or
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