On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:47:07PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote:
>
>
> On 26/08/15 22:44, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> >
> >I managed to get failure 1 and 2 above to go away by changing the test
> >slightly:
> >
> >diff --git a/mcs/class/corlib/Test/System/Date
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 08:58:22AM +0100, Jo Shields wrote:
> Okay. At this point, I've tried testing on a different box I was
> generously offered access to, and it works as well as you indicate -
> so my suspicion is there is Something Weird(tm) on partch.debian.org.
That's good, I think.
> I i
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 01:58:56PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 08:58:22AM +0100, Jo Shields wrote:
> > Okay. At this point, I've tried testing on a different box I was
> > generously offered access to, and it works as well as you indicate -
> >
On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 09:48:54AM +0100, Jo Shields wrote:
> If you can sign the CLA at https://cla.xamarin.com/ I can take care of
> the patch process
Well I looked at it and it would seem I can not.
I am employed by someone, but they have nothing to do with me contributing
patches to things in
On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 07:16:08PM +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Iceweasel and Firefox 40.X.X PowerPC aren't available for all Ubuntu
> flavours and for Debian with 32-bit userland currently.
>
> There are build problems:
>
> Iceweasel 40 build status:
> https://packages.debian.
On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 07:24:48PM +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Iceweasel and Firefox 40.X.X PowerPC aren't available for all Ubuntu
> flavours and for Debian with 32-bit userland currently.
>
> There are build problems:
>
> Iceweasel 40 build status:
> https://packages.debian.
On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 03:42:03PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote:
> I can get things in under a "trivial" exception. One patch is in, the
> other is stuck in "please rewrite this" hell @
> https://github.com/mono/referencesource/pull/16 - I'll try to get to it
> when I have time, but I have a backlog of
On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 04:24:10PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote:
> 3.16.0-4-powerpc64
>
> partch.debian.org, the porterbox where it fails:
> cpu: POWER7 (architected), altivec supported
> model: IBM,8231-E2B
I am running on a 8231-E1C, so not very different.
...
processor : 23
c
On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 08:27:44AM +0100, Jo Shields wrote:
> It's not the silicon - it failed on a G5 XServe as well
>
> It's not gcc - I did a successful build on gcc5.
>
> It's not the kernel version - it succeeded on a Mac Mini with
> 3.16.0-4-powerpc... actually... You've been using a ppc64
On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 03:13:56PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote:
> porpora has the same ppc64 kernel as partch, libc 2.19-19
>
> That's an interesting idea. Try building from
> http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mono/mono_4.0.4.1+dfsg-1.dsc
> which bundles a matched monolite generated from its o
On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 02:49:13PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote:
> It seems a new a new 4-core 64-bits PPC laptop is coming. It will be using a
> Freescale e6500 processor.
>
> http://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/
>
> This processor is based on V2.06 ISA, but it is still not clear for me if only
> PP
On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 10:12:21PM +0300, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
> (CC'ing the founder of the project, Roberto )
>
> As I'm actually one of the people involved in my spare time in the
> project, the truth is in the middle. It can run little-endian code, but
> it does not have VSX, and its
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 01:54:09AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Hi Art,
>
> I doubt you can buy a Lenny DVD these days. Your best bet is to find a
> friend with a working DVD burner.
>
> After you've got a bootable DVD, take a look at the documentation that
> Narcis Garcia linked to in his reply.
On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 12:39:00PM -0500, Joe Nosay wrote:
> I know that everyone is familiar with the one laptop per child program;
> and, that is good. Let's take it one step further. The debian team wants to
> build a powerpc laptop. FreeBSD is working on the POWER8 with the PPC team.
> The prob
On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 06:09:28AM +, Fadi Osman wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm contacting you on the behalf of the PowerPC Notebook project
> team.(http://www.powerpc-notebook.org)
> As you might already know, we are a group of volunteers collaborating towards
> building a notebook around the Freesca
On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 01:35:42PM -0200, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> To access more physical memory? But sure, they could run a 64-bit kernel
> with a 32-bit userspace.
That's certainly how I have been running larger powerpc machines for
years.
> But since this is going to be used as
On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 08:31:39PM +0100, Linux User #330250 wrote:
> Running 32-bit vs. 64-bit on powerpc makes me wonder… Is there a
> multilib version of Debian powerpc?
Well there are packages like lib64readline5 and libc6-ppc64 which
provide 64 bit libraries as part of 32bit debian powerpc.
On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 08:55:12PM +, Fadi Osman wrote:
> Hello Len,
> I am checking with the others before answering you questions.
> But I remember one of the reasons is that we were worried that powerpc would
> be eventually dropped in favor of ppc64 and ppc64el...
Well I see very little h
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 07:25:54AM +1100, Peter Saisanas wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
> The only kernel i have in my google drive link that is more or less a
> typical Debian kernel config with tweaks was the initial 3.18.16 kernel i
> originally had available. IIRC, should be in the google shared drive li
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 04:05:07PM +0100, Linux User #330250 wrote:
> I've got the same. It is the Original (2003) and "Late 2003".
> I had trouble installing Debian on my PowerMac7,2 as I wanted a 64-bit
> version. I now understand that you should use the regular PowerPC based
> distribution "powe
On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 04:45:16PM +0100, Richard Kuenz wrote:
> Hello ,
>
> can someone please help me to install Wheezy on a Powermac G5?
>
>
> When i boot in open firmware
>
> and then do
>
>
> boot cd:,install yaboot
>
>
> it says alwys "cd not found"
I was under the impression that yo
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 08:31:39PM +1100, Peter Saisanas wrote:
> Hi Brock,
> I have tried lmbench and recompiled glibc 2.21-6 with -O3 and -O2
> optimizations with the cflags below:
> extra_cflags = -mcpu=G5 -mtune=G5 -maltivec -mabi=altivec
>
> I haven't actually seen any marked difference to th
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:09:32PM -0500, Roosevelt Littleton wrote:
> Do I need to use a 64bit chroot to build a kernel for the G5? I of course
> notice there is no powerpc64-linux-gnu-gcc- to export. What's the debian
> way for completing this task?
No gcc in debian powerpc supports -m32 and -m
On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 03:34:35PM +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> Looks nice. As user of a PowerStation, my main question is:
> how noisy will it be when fans kick in?
Proably not bad. The 130W TDP for some models is no worse than a high
end P4 was. Even 190W is less than most high end gaming v
On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 04:56:14PM -0500, k...@kirkg.us wrote:
> Hello all,
> Does anyone still do anything with 32bit PowerPC? If so, I have a handful
> of 32bit PowerPC laptops that I'm willing to donate to the cause. If there
> is any interest, please let me know. I can outline what I have eit
On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 06:35:15PM +0100, Klaus Becker wrote:
> Finally I found a CDROM. But I tried to boot on a Knoppix CD and to different
> Debian CDs, without success.
I don't think a powerpc version of Knoppix has ever existed.
> I hold down "C" on booting and then I press again "c" to boo
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:40:52AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Well that's odd. Anyway feel free to report the bug and assign it the
> usertags to ppc64:
>
> https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?tag=ppc64&user=debian-powerpc%40lists.debian.org
Wow, 5 out of 11 bugs are to do with
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 04:26:59PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Let me rephrase that in: "Wow somebody (user)tagged specifically with
> ppc64 the nouveau bugs" ... :)
>
> This was not clear. But the offer to ppc64 machine(s) was made by the
> ppc64el people:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debi
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 04:41:40PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Lennart Sorensen
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 04:26:59PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> >> Let me rephrase that in: "Wow somebody (user)tagged specifically w
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:06:36PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote:
> I am wondering if you cannot try to mimic this non-VMX CPU on QEMU using
> -cpu.
>
> Running "$ qemu-system-ppc -cpu help" shows a lot of CPUs that are supported
> in
> QEMU. I am still not sure if we can exploit KVM if we use a di
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 07:13:49PM +0200, wbon...@theitmakers.com wrote:
> Yes, that's what i mean. "-mno-altivec" and maybe some other
> "-mno-something" flags, so it could run on any PPC64 cpu, even if it does
> not have altivec/vmx, or if it does not have the optional opcodes of the
> PPC64 stan
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 01:18:53AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
> The altivec instructions and other optimizations speed-up significantly
> certain kinds of programs on CPUs that can use them. It would be a shame to
> loose the optimized versions by dropping back to the lowest common
> denominator
On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 07:59:50AM +0900, Hiroyuki Yamamoto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> wbon...@theitmakers.com wrote:
> > The current target is e5500, which means i rebuild packages with the
> > following additionnal flags : -mcpu=e5500 -mno-altivec -mtune=e5500
> >
> > Is there some more generic flags i c
On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 05:39:48PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote:
> Ok, since we will not even have VMX, I understand that we might not need a
> POWER8, i.e, we can pursue initially with a POWER7. Does it make sense?
>
> Other than that, I will create a entry for you on one machine. But I am
> wonderi
On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 03:26:30PM +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 12:52:38 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > >
> > > 11.0.0 "Sid" Unofficial powerpc NETINST 20211006-11:28
> >
> > That image is quite old.
>
> It must have served a purpose a whi
On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 03:58:57PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Yes, math emulation should just work on 32-Bit PowerPC.
>
> There is no other option at this point unless one wants to invest time and
> effort to build Debian for powerpcspe with LLVM/Clang.
>
> Also, as already mention
On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 01:20:23PM +0100, Martina Hřebcová wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have one question about kernel / debian operation.
>
> I have computer A1222+ with CPU P1022 ( two e500v2 cores ). It is NG Amiga
> with AmigaOS4, but linux runs here nice too.
>
> P1022 CPU is 32-bit powerpc proce
On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 10:49:36AM +, Athanasios Anastasiou wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have noticed the same about the Wii and agree that it would be great to
> have Debian on it. But I can also see the point o
>
> If we are talking about taking advantage of SMP (?), the kernel is supposed
> to do thi
On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 07:30:55PM +, Kurt Stine wrote:
> I agree, there's no reason to penalize normal ppc users with the patch. It's
> why I'm suggesting a separate port/repo with Espresso SMP support.
Well someone would have to build and maintain it. It seems hard enough to
even get that
On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 02:49:32AM +, Kurt Stine wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> What would it take to have a debian build for the Espresso (Nintendo Wii U)
> CPU?
>
> Currently, due to overall Espresso weirdness, both GCC and glibc need to be
> patched for any applications to take advantage of all
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