Re: Poll: Is anyone using nouveau driver on ppc64 system?

2021-10-08 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 5:41 PM Tom Grzybowski wrote: > > I have a related question: instead of us breaking what is working by > updating the kernel regularly, why don't we find a good working kernel > version and move on only when we can match that in terms of functionality? > Is there some

Re: LLVM Linker

2021-10-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 10:16 AM Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > does somebody knows why lld isn't available for powerpc? I don't have an answer to this. Maybe the LLVM folks have not provided it? Maybe it is available, but not on-path? (LLVM has some sharp edges on PowerPC. I ran into a fair amou

Re: LLVM Linker

2021-10-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
> > If you want to use a different linker, then set the variable LD to that > > linker. > > I believe this is what LLVM=1 does. Start a compile with LVM=1 set > ld.lld, which is part of ldd package, isn't found. You might try -fuse-ld=lld. From https://lld.llvm.org/: If you don’t want to cha

Re: LLVM Linker

2021-10-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 4:43 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 10/16/21 16:09, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > does somebody knows why lld isn't available for powerpc? > > It's not available because we're currently not building LLVM for powerpc and > ppc64, see: According to https://lld.ll

Re: Bug#1003847: binutils breaks glibc autopkgtest on ppc64el: unrecognized opcode: `vspltisb' (and others)

2022-01-19 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 4:08 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Unfortunately, glibc no longer builds with this change on powerpc and ppc64 > and kernel builds still fails on both targets: > > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=glibc&arch=powerpc&ver=2.33-3&stamp=1642542048&raw=

Re: Request for a once-montly PowerPC for Apple Systems FAQ?

2022-01-31 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 11:09 AM Ken Cunningham wrote: > > Thanks. > > I’m in great shape, everything running fairly well on my machines. > > But most people have no idea even what boot iso to use, it seems, from the > 1,200 questions over and over and over about it on the Linux on PowerPC Macs

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images

2022-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 1:59 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > I have created the first set of installation images in 2022, these are > available at the usual location in [1]. > > The ISO image for sparc64 has been verified to work correctly, I don't > know about the other architectures, how

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images

2022-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 1:59 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > I have created the first set of installation images in 2022, these are > available at the usual location in [1]. > > The ISO image for sparc64 has been verified to work correctly, I don't > know about the other architectures, how

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images

2022-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 9:07 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > > On Mar 20, 2022, at 1:53 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, we still can't boot a PowerMac. Yaboot does load, but > > it results in Unknown or corrupt filesystem. > &

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images

2022-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 11:40 AM Ken Cunningham wrote: > > Jeff, the debian installation process moved to GRUB a while back. > > I still think the monthly install/setup FAQ would be a good plan, by the way. > There was a flurry of interest for a short while. Yeah, maybe this should be pushed on

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images

2022-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 12:55 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > On Mar 20, 2022, at 5:01 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 11:40 AM Ken Cunningham > > wrote: > > > If the webmaster would provide the actual instructions (or

Re: yaboot installation media

2022-03-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 8:28 PM Ben Westover > We're using grub-ieee1275, IEEE-1275 being the specification for Open > Firmware. There is no issue getting GRUB to run on my G3, and most > others are having success on their machines, but my G4 just refuses to > recognize GRUB in any way, only yaboot

Re: yaboot installation media

2022-03-27 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 4:15 PM Sam Imberman wrote: > > Hi, > I'm actually having more or less the same problem with my Powerbook G4 > Aluminum. > I am using the image from > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-18/non-free/ , > which I burnt on a USB stick with "dd > if=

Re: netinst ppc64 2022-03-24 fails to install GRUB boot loader

2022-03-27 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 6:15 PM 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 'grub-install /dev/sda3' failed. > >

Re: Apple PowerPC G5 7,2 No GUI NVIDIA FX 5200

2022-05-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 3:54 PM Guido R. Rolón A. wrote: > > Hi all this is my first time here and my first time with an Apple Machine > > My setup is a > Apple PowerMac7,2 5.1.5f2 BootROM built on 09/21/04 at 11:58:53 > 5.1.5 - Power Macintosh G5 (Omega, June 2003) > Model No.: A1047 EMC No.: 196

Re: Apple PowerPC G5 7,2 No GUI NVIDIA FX 5200

2022-05-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 1:31 PM wrote: > > ... > There was an official Apple Radeon X1900 G5 edition which was PCIe. > I've also read that people have used a Windows PC to flash Mac > firmware onto a PC X1950 PCIe card and this card may be more easily > available/cheaper. > > If the OPs machine i

Re: missing rebuild of dovecote-imapd-dbgsym?

2022-08-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 4:04 AM Simon Josefsson wrote: > > Paul Wise writes: > > > On Mon, 2022-08-22 at 07:10 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > > >> Are debug symbols on powerpc for the recent dovecot security advisory > >> missing, or am I doing something wrong? > > ... > >> dovecot-imapd-dbgs

Need for manual link to libatomic on powerpc?

2022-08-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, I'm trying to track down a Crypto++ 8/GCC 12 bug at [1,2]. Our Debian maintainer, who is helping with testing, mentioned we were missing libatomic during link when using santiziers on powerpc and hppa.[3,4] That kind of caught me off-guard. On Fedora (but not Debian in the past), we

Re: [PATCH 2/3] drmgr/common_pci: Prefer strlen() to check for valid string length

2022-12-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Adrian, On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 4:55 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > This fixes the following warning when building with gcc-12 that is > the result of ofdt_path being a fixed-sized array which means that > (char *)ofdt_path never be NULL: > > src/drmgr/common_pci.c: In function 'devsp

Fwd: new archive section: non-free-firmware

2023-01-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
FYI... -- Forwarded message - From: Sven Joachim Date: Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 12:09 PM Subject: new archive section: non-free-firmware To: Some news for you who are running unstable or testing/bookworm and have firmware packages installed from non-free (most users who do not run D

Fwd: Hoping to donate/sell a Talos II motherboard

2023-02-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
FYI... -- Forwarded message - From: Jeffrey Walton Date: Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 8:03 PM Subject: Re: Hoping to donate/sell a Talos II motherboard To: Cc: , , , On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 7:46 PM wrote: > > My friend has a spare Talos II motherboard that is currently sitting

Re: Installer doesn't find the mirrors

2023-04-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Apr 9, 2023 at 6:38 PM Ken Cunningham wrote: > > Your issue is in French, but it looks like the one I recently faced as well > if I am reading it correctly. > > I fixed it using the information on this page: > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/75807/no-public-key-available-on-apt

Re: illegal instruction on atan2

2023-05-22 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 12:20 PM Alexandre Bencz wrote: > > I did some analysis here... I identified exactly where the error is > occurring: > > gdb --args ./bin/latLngToCell --resolution 10 --latitude 40.689167 > --longitude -74.04 > GNU gdb (Debian 13.1-3) 13.1 > Copyright (C) 2023 Free Soft

Re: Fork of current version of »hfs« package

2023-05-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 4:40 PM Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 01:24:15PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > I have started working on an updated »hfsprogs« packages based on the > > split-out version of the HFS(+) code in the »hfs« package. For this, > > I have f

Re: Fork of current version of »hfs« package

2023-05-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 11:12 PM Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 09:24:42PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Blocks are like C++ lamda's. ObjC folks like to use them to ensure > > cleanup in a function, like releasing a handle or free'ing memory.

Re: Are G3/ no altivec cpu still usable on Debian?

2023-06-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jun 4, 2023 at 6:15 AM Lorenzo wrote: > > On Sat, 03 Jun 2023 12:14:47 +0200 > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > On Sat, 2023-06-03 at 11:29 +0200, Lorenzo wrote: > > > There is a bug in mplayer [1] that could be fixed by building a > > > variant of mplayer without alt

Re: Collaborating on the HFS code

2023-06-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jun 4, 2023 at 5:20 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > [...] > > There is currently one limitation with the HFS patch as it doesn't allow > setting > a custom volume name and hard-wires it to "untitled" [4]. This is because the > original code uses an Apple-specifc function to convert

Re: Are G3/ no altivec cpu still usable on Debian?

2023-06-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jun 4, 2023 at 11:10 PM Paul Wise wrote: > > On Sun, 2023-06-04 at 06:51 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > Altivec detection on Linux is relatively easy nowadays using > > getauxval(). From > ... > > instead of using a query via getauxval(), OpenSSL does a

IBM RS/6000's available

2023-06-08 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, The RS/6000's came up recently in another thread. I have a couple of them sitting in my basement. They are RS/6000 servers. They were used as firewalls at a state agency back around the early 2000's. They have network cards but no accessories, like a mouse or keyboard. The machines a

Re: IBM RS/6000's available

2023-06-08 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 4:09 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > The RS/6000's came up recently in another thread. I have a couple of > them sitting in my basement. They are RS/6000 servers. They were used > as firewalls at a state agency back around the early 2000

Re: Radeon 9600 graphics on an eMac (powermac6,4)

2023-06-11 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 3:56 PM Maite Gamper wrote: > > Hello, > I've just installed the debian 12 port on my eMac. > After the radeon_drm driver does the modesetting, the screen turns > black with the drm showing some errors (I ran dmesg over ssh): > > [6.804973] radeon :00:10.0: Invalid

Re: unbreaking LibreOffices tests on at least release architectures

2023-06-19 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 5:30 PM Rene Engelhard wrote: > > Hi, > > Am 19.06.23 um 23:19 schrieb Adrian Bunk: > > On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 09:31:05AM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > >> ... > >> I won't be of much help here unfortunately, except > >> maybe testing patches, but then again there's porter

Re: unbreaking LibreOffices tests on at least release architectures

2023-06-19 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 11:50 PM Rene Engelhard wrote: > > Am 20.06.23 um 00:03 schrieb Jeffrey Walton: > > > > You can usually uncover them by building the package with CFLAGS=" ... > > -fsanitize=undefined ... " and CXXFLAGS=" ... -fsanitize=undefined ...

Re: Please help reporting upstream bugs

2023-06-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 5:10 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > There are still many packages in Debian that fail to build from source on > PowerPC > targets, both 32-bit and 64-bit big-endian PowerPC, so I thought it might be > a good > idea to ask the community for help reporting these bu

Re: strlcpy and strlcat added to glibc 2.38

2023-07-18 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 4:16 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Some of you may remember the discussion we had regarding the »hfs« package > and the efforts to port it to Linux [1]. One of the issues with the package > was > the use of strlcpy and strlcat which have so been unsupported by gl

Re: [syzbot] [hfs?] WARNING in hfs_write_inode

2023-07-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 2:39 PM Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 07:50:47PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > Then we should delete the HFS/HFS+ filesystems. They're orphaned in > > > MAINTAINERS and if distros are going to do such a damnfool thing, > > > then we must

Re: unbreaking LibreOffices tests on at least release architectures

2023-07-22 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Jul 22, 2023 at 8:10 AM Rene Engelhard wrote: > > Am 22.07.23 um 14:02 schrieb Andreas Schwab: > > On Jun 18 2023, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > > >> For riscv64 I already pointed that out in the thread starting at > >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-riscv/2023/06/msg0.html, but for the >

Re: What are the current available browser options for debian-ppc64?

2023-11-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 1:56 PM Ken Cunningham wrote: > > On 2023-11-20, at 2:06 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > >> On Nov 20, 2023, at 10:56 AM, Jeroen Diederen > >> wrote: > >> > >> Firefox does not work. > > > > Did you try the latest version 119? > > > > If there is a patch which fi

Re: RM: icinga2 [armel mips64el ppc64el riscv64] -- ROM; FTBFS

2024-01-03 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 11:44 PM Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > > On 1/3/24 00:02, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > On 2023-12-22 15:43, Bas Couwenberg wrote: > >> Please remove icinga2 from armel, mips64el, ppc64el, riscv64 where it > >> FTBFS to unblock testing migration. > > > > What is the reasoning

Re: cmake ftbfs on ppc64el (and ppc64)

2024-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 1:16 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > the bug is definitely still present and I'm therefore not sure whether > downgrading the priority to normal is justified. > > On ppc64, cmake still crashes regularly when configuring the LLVM build > for example [1]: > > -- Looki

Re: Debian 12 on iMac G5

2024-02-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 3:33 PM Claudia Neumann wrote: > > Hi John, hi Frederico, > > I tried debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso from 31.1.2024. > > The Mac G5 stops with > > smp_core99_probe > > smp_core99_bringup_done > > I tried with > > radeon.modeset=1 video=offb:off nomodeset > > radeon.agpmod

Re: Test failures on ppc64el for camelot-py

2024-02-14 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 5:35 AM Elena ``of Valhalla'' wrote: > > I'm the maintainer of camelot-py and when I enabled autopkgtests for the > package I've had a failure on ppc64el > > https://ci.debian.net/packages/c/camelot-py/testing/ppc64el/42972030/ > > all other architectures pass, and I have n

Re: LibreOffice crash - rijndael.c: No such file or directory

2024-02-29 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 7:07 PM Casey C wrote: > > Hello, > > All versions of LibreOffice that I've tested after 7.3.5 appear to have > a bug which causes the application to crash when attempting to open a > previously saved document. > > When running via gdb, the application ends with the followi

Re: Performing dist-upgrade on powerpc and ppc64

2024-04-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 1:14 PM Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > so you suggest to use powerful scripts. > Ok, got dget (from devscripts) and sbuild. > Added my user do sbuild group. > > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > You can fetch the source from here: > > > > $ dget -uhttp:// > sn

Re: Bug#1023649: ghc: FTBFS haskell-random powerpc (ghc Segmentation fault)

2024-06-13 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 3:41 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > I finally figured out what the problem is. > > After realizing that the two-stage build of GHC works without problems, > I realized it can be a configuration issue only and, indeed, it is. > > Looking at /usr/lib/ghc/lib/settings

64-bit subtract from vector unsigned int

2020-04-07 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, I'm porting a 64-bit algorithm to 32-bit PowerPC (an old PowerMac). The algorithm is simple when 64-bit is available, but it gets a little ugly under 32-bit. PowerPC has a "Vector Subtract Carryout Unsigned Word" (vsubcuw), https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/reference-manual/ALTIVECPEM.pdf.

Re: 64-bit subtract from vector unsigned int

2020-04-07 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 5:51 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I'm porting a 64-bit algorithm to 32-bit PowerPC (an old PowerMac). > The algorithm is simple when 64-bit is available, but it gets a little > ugly under 32-bit. > ... > > Here's wha

Re: 64-bit subtract from vector unsigned int

2020-04-08 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 8:27 AM Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 05:51:54AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I'm porting a 64-bit algorithm to 32-bit PowerPC (an old PowerMac). > > The algorithm is simple when 64-bit

Re: 64-bit subtract from vector unsigned int

2020-04-08 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 7:31 AM Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > Jeffrey, > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 11:56 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 8:27 AM Lennart Sorensen > > wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 05:51:54AM

Re: Debian on a PowerMac G5 installers broken for 2019-04-11 and 2019-11-24

2020-04-13 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 3:01 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > ... > What frustrates me is that even though there are so many testing and using > these images, apparently no one is willing to help me. Especially since > porting the various quirks from Yaboot's ofpath [1] over to ofpathname >

Re: ofpath vs ofpathname vs grub-ofpathname

2020-04-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
> Anyone can provide me with access to a G5 for testing? I just want check the > device paths output by my patched "ofpathname". Yes. Send your SSH public keys/authorized_keys to noloader, gmail account. On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 11:23 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > I have finally found s

Re: ofpath vs ofpathname vs grub-ofpathname

2020-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 5:03 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 4/17/20 10:51 AM, Romain Dolbeau wrote: > > Le ven. 17 avr. 2020 à 10:37, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > > a écrit : > >> I have come up with this patch, can you test it on the mac-support branch? > > > > No cigars: > > > > ...

Re: iMac G3 support in Sid, Impossible?

2020-04-18 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 4:56 PM Alex McKeever wrote: > > The problem I have now is X fails to configure and I’m unable to find an up > to date configuration file for this machine. After unpacking X, update their confg.guess and config.sub. See https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_nod

Re: Lombard booting Debian Ports 2020-04-19 (was Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19)

2020-04-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:23 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > ... > >> ... > >> If you want to verify that the updated version shows the paths correctly, > >> you have to checkout the script from git and run it from there: > >> > >> # https://github.com/glaubitz/powerpc-utils.git > >> # gi

Broken link on install page

2020-04-22 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, The "Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC PowerMac Page", https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac says to visit the fine manual for the detailed instructions. The link is https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/, but the page is missing. Would someone know where the page is now loc

Re: 64-bit subtract from vector unsigned int

2020-05-11 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 7:51 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 5:51 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I'm porting a 64-bit algorithm to 32-bit PowerPC (an old PowerMac). > > The algorithm is simple when 64-bit is avail

Re: Installing Jessie on PowerMac G4 (32 bit) -- expired key

2020-06-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 2:30 AM Jeroen Diederen wrote: > > You might also want to try this: > https://linux-audit.com/how-to-solve-an-expired-key-keyexpired-with-apt/ > https://futurestud.io/tutorials/fix-ubuntu-debian-apt-get-keyexpired-the-following-signatures-were-invalid > https://www.reddit.c

Re: Updated installer images 2020-12-02

2020-12-05 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 4:15 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Your blank screen may have a different cause such as such as missing > firmware for your graphics card which is a result of Debian Ports > currently not having access to contrib and non-free during > installation - something I can

Re: Updated installer images 2020-12-02

2020-12-05 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 6:36 PM Dennis Clarke wrote: > ... > get to a shell with strange > "busybox" wherein the "ls" command does not support the letter "b" or > the letter "p" option. That's par for the course with Busybox. It can be anemic at times. For example, chmod mode only takes letters li

POWER8, GCC 10.2.1 and SIGILL

2020-12-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, I'm working on an issue with László Böszörményi, who is our Debian package maintainer. We have it narrowed down to Debian, GCC 10.2.1 and POWER8. Also https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/issues/986 and https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=libcrypto%2B%2B&arch=ppc64el&ver=8.

Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2021-01-03 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 4:30 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 1/3/21 10:25 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > The stuff is open source, if anyone is interested in getting this fixed, > > please > > start reading the code and help me. > > FWIW, the source code is here: > > > https:/

Re: More debug infos - was: Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2021-01-03 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 6:40 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 1/3/21 10:30 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > FWIW, the source code is here: > > > >> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-base/-/blob/master/parted_server.c > > > > If anyone has any clever idea, please let

Fwd: [platform-testers] [b...@redhat.com: parted-3.3.52 released [alpha]]

2021-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Walton
FYI... I believe parted one of the programs giving trouble. Jeff -- Forwarded message - From: Brian C. Lane Date: Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 8:58 PM Subject: [platform-testers] [b...@redhat.com: parted-3.3.52 released [alpha]] To: I just found out about this list, sorry for the laten

Re: Package libnss3_3.60-1_ppc64.deb requires Power-7 hardware

2021-01-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 6:17 PM Carsten Jacobi wrote: > > For all who still want to run Debian 64bit on a G5, the newest > libnss3-Package breaks some prominent applications like firefox or > thunderbird on that machine. > > The reason is that in one makefile the compiler options "-mcrypto" and >

Re: Workaround for installing Debian onto PowerMacs (2020-02-02 image)

2021-02-08 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 7:23 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hello! > > For anyone wanting to install a current Debian unstable snapshot onto their > PowerMacs, I'm going to write down a short guide how to make sure GRUB > gets installed properly (in case the installation fails). > > Use ei

Re: Workaround for installing Debian onto PowerMacs (2020-02-02 image)

2021-02-08 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 2:21 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > On Feb 9, 2021, at 8:07 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > After install the machine reboots automatically. We are not given an > > opportunity to stop the reboot. > > In fact, we are not e

Re: Workaround for installing Debian onto PowerMacs (2020-02-02 image)

2021-02-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 2:41 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > On Feb 9, 2021, at 8:37 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 2:21 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > > wrote: > >> > >>>> On Feb 9, 2021, at 8:07 AM, J

Re: Workaround for installing Debian onto PowerMacs (2020-02-02 image)

2021-02-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 4:51 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 2:41 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > > > > On Feb 9, 2021, at 8:37 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 2:21 AM John Paul Adrian Glaub

Move Debian PowerPC web pages to the Debian wiki

2021-02-11 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone/Adrian, I'm looking at pages like https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/ and https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac. I believe the pages are under control of the Debian webmasters. I think the pages should be moved to a wiki so the community can maintain them. The biggest reaso

Re: Some details on the bootloader installation for PowerMacs

2021-02-13 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 7:05 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 2/6/21 7:25 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 2/5/21 9:21 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> The next step will be adding a hfsprogs-udeb package which allows the > >> hfsprogs > >> package to be used directl

Re: Help with yaboot configuration

2021-02-19 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 2:12 AM Bob McGowan wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a B&W G3 which I have upgraded to 1G RAM. It also has an Adaptec > SCSI controller I added to use with a 32G LVD SCSI disk. It also has > the original SCSI 9G SCSI disk on which I've been able to install OSX > 10.4.2, initi

Re: iMac G3 r128 - failed to load module "r128"

2021-02-27 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Adrian, On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 6:33 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 5/23/20 9:52 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 5/23/20 9:48 PM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > >> I installed Debian Sid on an old iMac G3 500 with an ATI Rage 128 card. I > >> cannot > >> get X working. In th

Re: iMac G3 r128 - failed to load module "r128"

2021-02-27 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 7:55 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hello Jeffrey! > > On 2/27/21 1:37 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > >> If anyone knows about some particular fixes that are required for the > >> drivers - such > >> as for the eMac - it would

Re: enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

2021-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 3:39 AM Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 11:52:12PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > On Monday, March 1, 2021, Riccardo Mottola > > wrote: > > ... > > Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho is currently working on glibc6 patches > > which reverse t

Re: Donations

2021-03-06 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 5:42 AM David VANTYGHEM wrote: > > Hello, > > I received a first donation, thank you. Don't forgot to add your name when > you make a donation, or blank if you want to remain anonymous. I will send > the list of donors to Adrian. > > https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/88pAczIm

Re: VLC on G5 crash : illegal instruction

2021-03-08 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 2:10 PM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > On Sunday, March 7, 2021, Riccardo Mottola > wrote:. >> >> the issue is most probably in libpcre2 or Qt5Core >> >> #0 0x7fffe9c5fa30 in ?? () >> #1 0x702c406c in ?? () from >> /usr/lib/powerpc64-linux-gnu/libpc

Re: VLC on G5 crash : illegal instruction

2021-03-14 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 2:57 PM Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > On 3/8/21 9:49 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > We certainly shouldn't disable the whole JIT over a single instruction but > > rather > > check whether this instruction can be guarded on older POWER systems. > > > > But we need t

Re: [PATCH, v2] ofpathname: Move definition of SYS_PATH from l2of_vs() to l2of_scsi()

2021-03-29 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 6:42 PM Tyrel Datwyler wrote: > > On 2/8/21 4:10 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > SYS_PATH, which is required to calculate the plug ID of a SCSI/SATA > > host in l2of_scsi(), is actually never set in this function but in > > l2of_vd() where it is not used at all. Th

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16 🎉

2021-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 2:48 AM Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2021, at 5:30 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 4/16/21 1:57 PM, Johannes Brakensiek wrote: > > > ... > > > Ok, good to know. Then I suppose the Mac’s firmware just won’t detect it > > > if it’s copied to a USB stick

OT: Huge Right to Repair Win for Consumers

2021-06-08 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, This is not as off-topic as it may seem. In the US, the FTC just issued a report that favors consumers. The report and its recommendations may provide a means to pierce the veil of closed platforms, like closed-sourced firmware. It also looks like the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act will f

OT: Right to Repair Executive Order in US

2021-07-10 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, This just came down the pipe for folks in the US: https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/9/22569869/biden-executive-order-right-to-repair-isps-net-neutrality. The Executive Order squarely targets tech. Also see Steve Lehto's analysis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qyYEvcS5-8. Lehto is a M

Re: Altivec in baseline for ppc64?

2021-07-13 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 2:20 PM Sébastien Villemot wrote: > > Le mardi 13 juillet 2021 à 20:06 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre a écrit : > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 7:21 PM Sébastien Villemot > > wrote: > > > Le mardi 13 juillet 2021 à 18:56 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre a écrit : > > > > > > > > On Tue, Ju

Re: Altivec in baseline for ppc64?

2021-07-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 2:59 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 7/15/21 5:49 PM, Christian Zigotzky wrote: > > I disagree too because the performance of software with AltiVec support > > isn't as > > high as expected. I tested it a lot because we have AltiVec and Non-Altivec > > machines

Re: Altivec in baseline for ppc64?

2021-07-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 12:09 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > > > On 7/16/21 12:59 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > Does it have to be one or the other? Can't you have both? > > > > Well, you could have runtime detection like certain multim

Re: GRUB installation fails on latest ISO

2021-09-18 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 6:54 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 9/19/21 00:24, Alex McKeever wrote: > > I just tried installing the latest version of Debian Ports on my iMac G3 > > and well it fails to install GRUB. Falling back to April’s installation > > media (which I have on hand) that

Re: GRUB installation fails on latest ISO

2021-09-19 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 3:45 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 9/19/21 03:11, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Have you considered running a repo with the fixes that Debian does not > > pick up or provide in a timely manner? > > We already do that and we have been do

Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller

2024-09-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 9:54 AM Steffen Grunewald wrote: > > On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 14:37:47 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > [...] > > > You will need to add "unreleased" to your sources.list to use it: > > > > deb http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ unreleased main > > Many

Re: About browsers (again) [was Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller]

2024-09-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 6:05 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hello João, > > On Sat, 2024-09-28 at 10:36 +0100, João wrote: > > SeaLion is definitely worth considering, but it is not part of the > > distribution, > > and it would be desirable if Debian PPC (we are talking about big endian

Re: Another plug for a debian PowerPC FAQ for Apple systems ...

2024-09-27 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 7:47 PM Ken Cunningham wrote: > > As per the last time this came up a couple of years ago, the same set of > questions with the same series of answers keep coming up every few months on > this list regarding installing debian on PowerPC macs. > > We had a few keen volunte

Re: Lintian question

2025-02-08 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Feb 8, 2025 at 9:18 AM David Bannon wrote: > > Hi Folks, I write an app, tomboy-ng, in Debian. > > Its a free pascal app, and free pascal does not do hardening on powerpc64el. > So, I turn it off at compile (eg if [ "$CPU" = "powerpc64le" ]; then...) and > leave an override so Lintian do