Re: GXT6500P

2012-01-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 07:50:58PM +, Mark Benson wrote: > Another simple question. > > Is Linux (Debian or otherwise) compatible with the GXT6500P graphics card? > > I have one that I have tested as working in AIX 5L on the 9111-285 and it > appears to be 100% working. Booting any Linux dist

Re: Video Card Help - IBM POWER5

2012-01-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:39:51PM +, Mark Benson wrote: > I finally got a bootable Debian 6.0.3 system. It's a good start! > > I now find myself stuck in another hole. > > Xorg doesn't like either my GXT6500P or my GXT135P graphics boards. It > doesn't seem to have a driver for either. > >

Re: Video Card Help - IBM POWER5

2012-01-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:58:02PM +, Mark Benson wrote: > > On 23 Jan 2012, at 22:18, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:39:51PM +, Mark Benson wrote: > >> I finally got a bootable Debian 6.0.3 system. It's a good start! > >

Re: graphics card for PowerPC G5 and debian-6.0.3-ppc

2012-02-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 08:06:26PM +0100, szukw...@arcor.de wrote: > I have debian-6.0.3-ppc installed on a PowerMac G5. > > The graphics card used is a ATI Radeon 9600 AP (AGP) > with one backward key(1.5V key). > > The board has one AGP slot; and 3 PCI slots (length ~125 mm). > > 1. Is it poss

Re: graphics card for PowerPC G5 and debian-6.0.3-ppc

2012-02-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 09:58:40AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > For Radeons, that's only true for older cards without ATOM BIOS, > basically anything older than Radeon X1xxx. So this shouldn't be a > problem for a Radeon HD 5450, but there might be other issues, e.g. the > drivers in the stable re

Re: graphics card for PowerPC G5 and debian-6.0.3-ppc

2012-02-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 05:09:14PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > He was asking about a PCI card. PCI and AGP. But not PCIe. Not too many options for PCI and AGP anymore. > You're right, although with KMS, console will work as soon as the radeon > kernel module is loaded (which can happen very e

Re: graphics card for PowerPC G5 and debian-6.0.3-ppc

2012-02-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 09:12:33PM +0100, Stephane Louise wrote: > I tried DVI and HDMI connectors. The only new dmesg that I have is: > [drm:radeon_dvi_detect] *ERROR* HDMI-A-1: probed a monitor but no|invalid EDID > > That's the only time when you can actually see something wrong in > dmesg (it

Re: Help to test libsdl1.2 bug #361826 on powerpc?

2012-02-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:23:48PM +, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > (Not subscribed to debian-powerpc@, please CC to me/the bug report as > appropriate). > > Can somebody please help to check if this bug from SDL libraries is > still present on powerpc? I don't have access to any pow

Re: Help to test libsdl1.2 bug #361826 on powerpc?

2012-02-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:26:57PM +, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > Thank you so much for the quick help! > > 1.2.15 is fine, I wanted to confirm if this old bug was still present > or fixed. I don't have interest in testing other versions of SDL in > principle. BTW, maybe you can a

Re: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-03-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:12:18AM -0700, John Wesley Cooper wrote: > One of the first things I tried was the little "Press C at the chime" trick … > at which point the drive repeatedly tried to read the disk for a minute or > so, then booted into Mac OS with no other visible or audible output.

Re: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-03-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:52:34AM -0700, John Wesley Cooper wrote: > I do believe I specified in my initial message that I burnt it to a CD-R … so > that can't be the issue. I forgot what the initial message had said. I would be surprised if it wasn't able to read CD-Rs in general (although my

Re: Howto for md(raid 1) on PPC ?

2012-04-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:07:05PM +0100, Raf Czlonka wrote: > Any mdadm one should apply. > Your /boot might need to be outside of RAID though. AFAIK yaboot doesn't > support booting of md RAID and I haven't tried GRUB on PPC. Grub works fine on raid, although you will need a git checkout, not th

Re: Howto for md(raid 1) on PPC ?

2012-04-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 05:19:34PM +0200, Niels S. Eliasen wrote: > Dó you have a cookbook for getting grub2 working(with the raid of course) ? Well I can tell you what my setup is. I am using an IBM p710 (and I also have a p520 with a very similar setup although currently using a somewhat patche

Re: Howto for md(raid 1) on PPC ?

2012-04-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 12:18:50PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Well I can tell you what my setup is. > > I am using an IBM p710 (and I also have a p520 with a very similar setup > although currently using a somewhat patched and manually installed via > dd and other hacks th

Re: powerpc qualification for Wheezy

2012-05-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:42:32PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > I am still a regular powerpc user, and I should have sufficient time to > assist with porting issues for the foreseeable future, which I haven't > done for the last couple of releases but will now be able to. So feel > free to put me d

Re: wine considered not-for-us on powerpc

2012-06-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 11:28:20AM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: > Interesting question, as windows did once upon-a-time run on powerpc > (wikipedia says so, so it must be true > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#32-bit_platforms) > > Does someone need to run notepad for powerpc on linux thoug

Re: Bug#680096: ATLAS on PowerPC

2012-07-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 09:39:37PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > But still POWER3 is supported by the 32-bit powerpc port: > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch02s01.html.en#id522279 Debian powerpc is 32bit, but with 64bit kernel available. Debian 64bit powerpc is a new proj

Re: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg

2012-08-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:06:09AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > Hi Michael, > > First: try sending this to the "debian-powerpc" list. You may get > more answers there... > > Second: I have a couple of G4 tower machines that work just fine, > but unfortunately I don't have any powerbooks to try, s

Re: PowerPC Debian install on IBM 43P boot problems...

2012-08-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 01:15:36PM -0400, Bruno Gallichand wrote: > I`m trying to revive an old IBM 43P for a customer into using it with > Debian 3.0 (that`s the only version I was able to get bootable floppy images). > > After the successful partionning and installation of the base OS, duri

Re: PowerPCSPE port status

2012-09-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:18:14PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > I am getting mails from time to time "how can I help with the port I need new > packages" or something like that but after I tell what there is to do I don't > hear anything anymore. P2020 is still used in new designs and

Re: How to upgrade 6 - 7

2012-09-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 07:25:27PM -0400, Logan Brown wrote: > I would never recommend attempting a dist upgrade to unstable. I've > tried it twice in the past, and both times led to reinstalling the > from scratch. Dependencies get mixed up, and you're left with a highly > unstable "bastardized" s

Re: PowerPCSPE port status

2012-09-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:00:17PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > 8572 and P2020 are dual cores / SMP. They _are_ fast and support more than > 4GiB of memory. They play in the performance league. MPC512x are the slow > ones. I built the port on _one_ 8536 and the buildd was mostly wating

Re: Any hope for Skype on an iMac G4 with Squeeze?

2012-10-09 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 12:45:15PM -0800, Terrence van Ettinger wrote: > Hello, > Is there any way to get some form of Skype to run on Debian > Squeeze? I have an iMac G4 from about 66 years ago that's a > hand-me-down, and I really need access to Skype on it. No hope. Skype doesn't do powe

Re: Open Firmware and External 2TB HDD

2012-10-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:47:49AM -0700, b...@riseup.net wrote: > Hello there, > > I have been struggling to boot Debian-PPC from a new 2TB Baracuda HDD with > a Seagate GoFlex controller... FOR DAYS! > > I am using a Powerbook G4 with OSX 10.3.4 > > The details: > > When I boot off a Live Ubu

Re: mdadm raid from debian 64 bit .. error on powerpc ?

2012-11-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 07:21:36PM +0100, Niels S. Eliasen wrote: > I do have a problem that I hope someone can help me with > > My old PC(Celeron chip) gave up just the other day.. and I have been > struggling ever since to get the the mdadm (raid 1) mounted on my Debian > linux...(both sys

Re: mdadm raid from debian 64 bit .. error on powerpc ?

2012-11-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 07:40:16PM +0100, Niels Schjøtt Eliasen wrote: > Hi Len > And .. is it possible to upgrade the superblock ? (I fear the mdadm raid was > created a couple of years back (in a Lenny installation)) According to https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID_superblock_formats#Co

Re: good sata card for pci-x powermac?

2013-01-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 03:26:04PM -0500, Brian Szymanski wrote: > This makes me wonder... Since I'm using mdadm, I should be able to > use any voltage-compatible card, provided that I first plug the card > in on a PC and configure it for straight-thru non-RAID access to all > drives, right? I'd ne

Re: About VMX/Altivec support in Debian ppc64 port

2013-02-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:07:09AM +0800, Liang Guo wrote: > 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 accor

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 ALL, > and which have a relation

Re: Installation - boot after installation fails

2013-03-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 08:01:08PM +0100, Michael Felt wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I downloaded the debian netinstaller - debian-6.0.7-powerpc-netinst.iso - > and installed on a p505. The installation process goes well, but the boot > fails. > > I tried using the LVM with multiple partitions and

Re: Installation - boot after installation fails

2013-03-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:56:00PM +0100, Michael Felt wrote: > 4 to 5 years ago I was only able to get Linux to boot, (Redhat, Novell, > Debian) unless it was a physical disk. I have not tried that yet because I > do not have an empty disk to supply. And if that worked I would just > uninstall it

Re: Installation - boot after installation fails

2013-03-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 08:29:17AM +0100, Michael Felt wrote: > well in this case the newer machine must be the vios version (2.2.2.×) > because my hardware is p5 generation. > > guess i'll just have to wait for the netboot respositories to update. i have > waited "many moons" - what is a few mo

Re: Installation - boot after installation fails

2013-03-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 08:33:34AM +0100, Michael Felt wrote: > upgrade? how? i am using netinst.iso to do the install, and what is installed > does not boot! > > will try 2) when i have access. travelling/work keeps me away atm. You could when at the end of the install, instead of finishing the

Re: Installation - boot after installation fails

2013-03-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:38:27PM +0100, Michael Felt wrote: > It helps to read the screen -- oh, still no go -- but updated! > > Need to run the command ybin to update "something". I missed that bit of > feedback firsttime. > > For comparison: when AIX boots it lists the device as: > --

Re: IBM 7025-F50

2013-05-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:11:57PM +0300, Gasha wrote: > I can get old IBM 7025-F50 box. > > Is there any chance to put any recent kernel on to it? > I saw only reports to install debian 3.0 / sarge > > Are there any hidden problems? Looking up the specs, I don't see any obvious reason it should

Re: IBM 7025-F50

2013-05-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 05:33:06PM +0300, Gasha wrote: > I will try some debian installs on it. > For some unknown reason, i like unix boxes :) > So far i tried debian on HP 720, SUN 10, IBM p710 LPAR. > > I also have one INDY/MIPS, SUN BLADE 1000 waiting for linux. > And nearby is one HP L2000 an

Re: Upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy on Bubba Two hardware

2013-05-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:56:41PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > I get an answer for my questions on the debian users list: > > > Yes, udev in Wheezy requires a kernel >= 2.6.32 with the accept4(2) > syscall. At least one year ago, the Squeeze kernel did not provide this > particular syscall on pow

Re: PowerPC assembler help

2013-06-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:19:57PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Brad Boyer wrote: > > > Was this input for an assembler or output from a disassembler? If this > > is from a disassembly of a dynamically relocatable object, it might > > have gotten confused by an instruction being the target

Re: showstopper for debian-7.1.0-powerpc-netinst.iso on POWER5 (p505) and iscsi disk

2013-08-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 03:44:01AM +0800, Michael Felt wrote: > Last march I started a thread - that with help - resolved the problem of > installing from > debian-6.0.7-powerpc-netinst.iso - and installed on a p505. downloading the > new yaboot as part of the install (thanks to Lenn

Re: apt sources for Debian Sarge

2013-08-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 07:11:18PM -0600, Thomas Carlson wrote: > What are the correct apt sources for Debian Sarge these days? The old ones: > > deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free > deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free > > no longe

Re: apt sources for Debian Sarge

2013-08-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 08:26:39PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 10:46:21AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 07:11:18PM -0600, Thomas Carlson wrote: > > > What are the correct apt sources for Debian Sarge these days? T

Re: Re: showstopper for debian-7.1.0-powerpc-netinst.iso on POWER5 (p505) and iscsi disk

2013-08-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 06:59:01PM +0800, Michael Felt wrote: > Well, I tried the install again. ANd made a small change. The previous > attempt was using a logical volume as the data area exported to the > partition as hdisk0. I'll repeat that later - as a test. However, when > installing to an is

Re: Nvidia on powermac.

2013-08-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 07:39:13AM +0200, Alberto Mi wrote: > hello, i have read the forums and some FAQs and i don't have found a way to > make my geforce 4 mx on debian. Anyone could point me how to make it? Does the nouveau driver not work on powerpc? I have no idea given I have never tried it

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
Hi, I am an active porter for the following architectures and I intend to continue this for the lifetime of the jessie release: For powerpc, i386, amd64, armhf, I - test most base packages on this architecture - fix toolchain issues - triage arch-specific bugs - fix arch-related bugs - run a loca

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:38:29AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > Here is a little status update on the mails we have received so far. > First off, thanks to all the porters who have already replied! > > So far, the *no one* has stepped up to back the following architectures: > >hurd-i386 >

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:19:24AM -0400, Federico Sologuren wrote: > i have a HP Visualize B2000 that i managed to install last night from iso > distribution that i found after a lot of looking. at this point only > terminal is working. will keep reading to get debian up and running. > > i would

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 06:08:12PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > I suppose I'm not really one privileged to express these reactions, > but I tend to be a loose cannon sometimes. > > ??? > > (Checking my calendar. Nope, I haven't suddenly slipped back to the > early 1990s.) > > (Still puzzled.) Well

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 08:28:43AM -0700, Gary Driggs wrote: > It's somewhat ironic that they're the last big fab & server vendor > left making PPC gear. Even Freescale seems focused on ARM these > days... No, freescale is very much focused on powerpc, they are just doing some arm as well since th

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 09:08:48AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > Ergo, there hasn't been sufficient support for least significant byte > first mode to demonstrate that the CPU can actually do it. Makes more > sense when I think about it that way. Certainly running Linux this way is pretty new and unpr

Re: AmigaOne X1000/Nemo PowerPC Motherboard

2013-11-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 03:52:31PM +0100, Christian Zigotzky wrote: > Just for info: > > A-EON's Christmas Cracker! : Special offer on Nemo PowerPC > Motherboards for the holiday season. > > To celebrate the latest delivery of Nemo PPC motherboards, A-EON > Technology is pleased to announce a spe

Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?

2013-11-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 03:07:39AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > Dear people, > > Motivated by: > > * the results of the last call to porters > * the fact that PowerPC (at least) used to be an architecture where Debian > shined > * the lack of external support (which means that we should help o

Re: My K9 Blackdog

2013-12-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 04:04:45PM -0800, Neko Ecchi wrote: > Hi everyone. I'm not sure how active > this list is, but I thought I'd give it a try > to see if I can get my old K9 Blackdog > running. For those who don't know, the > K9 Blackdog is an old PPC computer > that plugs into a regul

Re: My K9 Blackdog

2013-12-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:57:08AM -0800, Neko Ecchi wrote: > Thanks, Lennart. I'll check out that source. I DO have access > to the BlackDog SDK which runs on windows using QEMU that has GCC and > will compile for my Virtex CPU. Sadly, I have no sources at all. > They didn't ship the sou

Re: My K9 Blackdog

2013-12-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 03:27:52PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:57:08AM -0800, Neko Ecchi wrote: > > Thanks, Lennart. I'll check out that source. I DO have access > > to the BlackDog SDK which runs on windows using QEMU that has GCC and

Re: Bug#724469: FTBFS on all big-endian architectures

2014-03-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 11:53:23AM +0100, intrigeri wrote: > intrigeri wrote (20 Jan 2014 17:58:03 GMT) : > >> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=89552 > > Sure. Debian porters, I'll let you subscribe to the RT ticket, and > > hopefully take care of this porting problem. > > I'd like to se

Re: which instruction sets are actually supported

2014-04-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 11:57:16PM +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: > in the discussion at > https://github.com/andrewlow/v8ppc/issues/111 > comes the question about the minimum instruction set > supported by debian-powerpc. I didn't find an answer > in the documentation. Could you help me clarifying that

Re: Remote access to VSX and VMX128 capable machines?

2014-06-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 01:01:14AM +0300, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > Thanks for the reply, I've been reading the info in those links myself, > from what I understand the VMX128 opcodes are an extention, that is, > they are added on top of the existing VMX opcodes, isn't that correct? > If not

Re: Debian/ppc64el feasiability to become an official architecture

2014-07-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:14:08AM +0100, peter green wrote: > Another question the ftpmasters will likely have is what is the > relationship between ppc64 and ppc64el. Is there hardware that will > run ppc64 but not ppc64el? is there hardware that will run ppc64el > but not ppc64? is there hardwar

Re: Debian/ppc64el feasiability to become an official architecture

2014-07-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 06:48:13PM +0100, peter green wrote: > Not in debian proper but it is on debian-ports.org and it appears to > be pretty healthy. Hmm, not listed under the official nor unofficial debian ports, while ppc64el is. https://www.debian.org/ports/ ppc64el listed, ppc64 is not.

Re: Debian/ppc64el feasiability to become an official architecture

2014-07-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:29:19PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > I'm not sure what your point is. > > Maybe “crazy how ppc64 people got interested in getting their packages > built as opposed to getting debian.org ports page updated”? Anyway, if > you want to know about the port, see the wiki[1]

Re: Debian PPC test video problem with G5 Quad

2014-07-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 05:48:49PM +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote: > On 30.07.14, 13:05 Rick Thomas wrote: > >Hi Keith, > > > >It’s definitely worth filing a bug. (See reportbug(1) for details on the > >procedure.) I guess, for lack of anything more precise, you should file it > >against packa

Re: Support for PPC processors prior to POWER4 being dropped from kernel 3.17

2014-08-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 07:44:16AM -0400, David Gosselin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Does this include 32-bit processors? The first link doesn't specify > while the second appears to discuss 64-bit only. It would certainly be 64bit only. There is a lot of active

Re: Support for PPC processors prior to POWER4 being dropped from kernel 3.17

2014-08-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 05:37:59PM +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote: > On 13.08.14 16:11, Michel Dänzer wrote: > >On 13.08.2014 20:23, Rick Thomas wrote: > >>Does anybody know if this affects the Moto G[345] processors used in the > >>Apple Macintosh machines? > >> > >>http://www.phoronix.com/scan.

Re: Alternative java/JVM working on armel/powerpc?

2014-09-03 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 07:29:50AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > I see where powerpc support has been _removed_ from avian on Apr 30: > > https://github.com/ReadyTalk/avian/commit/41adb74eb1895c662920fdfb7467ce415d9fa0b7 > > This would explain why it doesn't run for us. It looks like powerpc is a

Re: Porting linuxinfo to ppc64el

2014-09-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 08:41:21AM -0400, larry wrote: > [2] And, since I haven't had access to a PPC machine for quite some > time, maybe on some "plain" PPC as well? > > > Linux Terpsicore 3.11-2-powerpc #1 Debian 3.11.10-1 (2013-12-04) > One 7400, altivec supported PowerMac3,1 400MHz processor

Re: Porting linuxinfo to ppc64el

2014-09-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 09:11:21PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Thanks for testing. Yes, I finally removed the wrong heuristic for the > memory some time ago. > > Regarding the bogomips: Could you send me the output for /proc/cpuinfo > for this machine? There is no bogomips in there. It is a

Re: Adding ppc64el support in debian-cd

2014-09-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 06:19:43PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > I'm adding support for new architectures at the moment. powerpc is one > of the most awkward existing arches to add boot support for at the > moment, due to the mess of older machines. I'm hoping that ppc64el is > better, but I don't

Re: Bug#761040: [libqtwebkit4] Browsers based on Webkit crash on loading pages

2014-10-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 03:48:27PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > OK, we will need a powerpc machine with more RAM available than the current > powerpc porterbox. > > Debian PPC porters: can anyone build qtwebkit with a machine with at least > 8GB > of RAM+swap and the inc

Re: Bug#761040: [libqtwebkit4] Browsers based on Webkit crash on loading pages

2014-10-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 10:36:56AM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Current sid's qtwebkit (2.3.4.dfsg-2) > > ppc users says it crashes upon certain time (which seems to be not much). > What > I need is a proper backtrace generated with the patched qtwebkit. > > JFTR, qtwebk

Re: Bug#761040: [libqtwebkit4] Browsers based on Webkit crash on loading pages

2014-10-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 10:09:10AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Compiling now. > > dpkg-source hates some of the patches in the package and refuses to > unpack it. quilt is fine with it, and using quilt refresh on the patches > makes dpkg-source happy. Seems using a/...

Re: Bug#761040: [libqtwebkit4] Browsers based on Webkit crash on loading pages

2014-10-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 10:40:56AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 10:09:10AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > Compiling now. > > > > dpkg-source hates some of the patches in the package and refuses to > > unpack it. quilt is fine with it,

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 short > on cash for an

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: printing using brother mfc 640cw

2015-02-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 02:04:58AM -0600, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote: > I am having issues printing to my brother printer. I can add it as a > network printer but the recommended drivers is for a mfc 6550mc printer not > 640cw. When I print a test page I see it connect and successfully send the

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 07:16:50AM -0600, Sandeep G.R wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Sandeep G.R wrote: > > > > > I have a sid PPC64 from http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ports running on > > > Freescale Powerpc. Is their PPC64(Big

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 08:45:50PM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > Sorry for jumping in. I would like the chance to complement and clarify > some things about ppc64el platform. > > As Aurelien pointed out, when used in OPAL mode, the system will boot a > system running petitboot, whi

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:26:51AM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > Well, bare metal has been mistakenly used to describe what I would call > dedicated partition of single partition mode. People may call it bare > metal, because there is no virtualized IO (in fact, there is the > conso

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 09:37:42PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi, > > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 17:13:06 +0200, a écrit : > > > +arch_porturl="ppc64el" > > > +arch_listname="ppc64el" > > > > Please take care when updating these to be sure to understand > >

Re: yaboot: How to load Debian8 netboot installation images directly from the boot: prompt?

2015-06-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 02:58:38PM +0200, Michael Felt wrote: > 10 days late replying - my apologies. > PowerPC - if I read that in a literal sense - is that basically "oldish" > Macs that were build on the PowerPC processor. If the answer is yes, is > there any interest in the Ubuntu Community to

Re: Reg:Powerpc MPC 8641D support.

2015-06-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 06:28:00PM +0530, Sureshvs wrote: >We have embedded system with MPC8641D PowerPC processor,running Linux > kernel 3.10.32 on eldk 5.3 filesystem. > we are planning to use the debian filesystem on Linux kernel 3.10.32. > > I have gone through the debian website for Po

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 08:59:19AM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > Dear PPC porter people, > > The major Mono version pending in experimental fixes GCC5 and fixes > reproducible builds and a dozen other bugs, so I don't want to delay it. > > It doesn't build on PowerPC any more, and nobody upstream is

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:10:34PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > > > On 24/08/15 22:49, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 08:59:19AM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > >>Dear PPC porter people, > >> > >>The major Mono version pending in experime

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 03:06:21PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > > > On 25/08/15 14:44, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > > I did that, and got a ton of other errors. > > > > The readme file said to use: > > > > make get-monolite-latest > > make E

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:09:58AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > OK, I was just trying what README.md said to do when using the get > monolite option. > > I also just noticed I hadn't installed all the dependancies listed on > http://www.mono-project.com/docs/compiling-m

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:53:31AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:09:58AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > OK, I was just trying what README.md said to do when using the get > > monolite option. > > > > I also just noticed I hadn'

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 04:45:54PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > > > On 25/08/15 16:34, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:53:31AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:09:58AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >>>

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:46:41AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 04:45:54PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > > > > > > On 25/08/15 16:34, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:53:31AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > &

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:50:46AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:46:41AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 04:45:54PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 25/08/15 16:34, Lennart Sorensen wrote: &

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 09:28:50PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > Okay, now I'm confused? The point of that branch was it was the > almost-working state, the compiler was one of the things not working > properly! Let me try building from the branch afresh... Well if you want me to do a fresh pull agai

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:16:15PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > > > On 25/08/15 22:01, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 09:28:50PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > >> Okay, now I'm confused? The point of that branch was it was the > >> almost-work

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:30:45PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > On 25/08/15 22:29, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > I had thought that could be it too. I certainly haven't seen that > > particular problem so far. Are you simply running make or are you > > passing any arguments t

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 05:54:10PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:30:45PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > > On 25/08/15 22:29, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > I had thought that could be it too. I certainly haven't seen that > > > particula

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:45:24AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 05:54:10PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:30:45PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > > > On 25/08/15 22:29, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > > I had t

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:16:14PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:45:24AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 05:54:10PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:30:45PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > &g

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 05:28:28PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > > > On 26/08/15 17:16, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > > And a patch that fixes that (since the double's stored in the table are > > little endian, they have to be endian swapped before being returne

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 05:40:15PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > > > On 26/08/15 17:26, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > > And running the test suite as NOT root solved that. So now the only > > problem I see left in 'make mcs-do-tests' is getting stuck fo

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 01:47:09PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Well M=0 did no difference. > > I added -labels to the nunit-console.exe arguments which made it print > each test name before running it to the output file and that allowed me > to determine

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 07:01:31PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > > > On 26/08/15 18:47, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >Opcode 'move_f_to_i4' missing from machine description file. > > > > I agree with its assessment, there's no OP_MOVE_F_TO_I4 in > mono/min

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 09:05:30PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > > > On 26/08/15 20:12, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 07:01:31PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > >> > >>On 26/08/15 18:47, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >>>Opcode 'm

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 05:14:55PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 09:05:30PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > > > > > > On 26/08/15 20:12, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > >On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 07:01:31PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > > >>

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