Re: SMP PReP (was Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...)

2006-06-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 12:24:19AM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:41:30PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 09:50:57AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:14:33PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > > > > > > SMP never worked

Re: SMP PReP (was Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...)

2006-06-25 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:41:30PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 09:50:57AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:14:33PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > > > > > SMP never worked under Linux on those machines because the AIX boot > > > > > sequence to

Re: SMP PReP (was Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...)

2006-05-25 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 09:50:57AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:14:33PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > > > > SMP never worked under Linux on those machines because the AIX boot > > > > sequence to enable it was never successfully reverse-engineered. > > > > > > Ah, ok,

Re: SMP PReP (was Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...)

2006-05-25 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 05:00:15PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 07:09:08PM -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: > > On Thu, 04 May 2006 23:41:28 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:52:49AM -0500, Olof Johansson wrote: > > >> On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:

Re: SMP PReP (was Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...)

2006-05-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:14:33PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > > > SMP never worked under Linux on those machines because the AIX boot > > > sequence to enable it was never successfully reverse-engineered. > > > > Ah, ok, then it makes no sense to build a special kernel for those, until > >

Re: SMP PReP (was Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...)

2006-05-25 Thread Daniel Gimpelevich
On May 24, 2006, at 9:14 PM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 05:00:15PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 07:09:08PM -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: On Thu, 04 May 2006 23:41:28 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:52:49AM -0500, Olof Johansso

Re: SMP PReP (was Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...)

2006-05-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 07:09:08PM -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: > On Thu, 04 May 2006 23:41:28 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:52:49AM -0500, Olof Johansson wrote: > >> On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:12:56PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > >> > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:52:49AM -0500, Olof Johansson wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:12:56PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:41:34AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:38:07PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hey, c

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-04 Thread Olof Johansson
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:12:56PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:41:34AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:38:07PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > > > Hey, cool. so ARCH=ppc will work both for apus and prep, and the rest > > > > s

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:12:56PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:41:34AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:38:07PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > > > Hey, cool. so ARCH=ppc will work both for apus and prep, and the rest > > > > s

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-04 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:41:34AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:38:07PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > Hey, cool. so ARCH=ppc will work both for apus and prep, and the rest > > > should > > > go with ARCH=powerpc. This is the case both for 2.6.16 and the

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 08:41 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:38:07PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > Hey, cool. so ARCH=ppc will work both for apus and prep, and the rest > > > should > > > go with ARCH=powerpc. This is the case both for 2.6.16 and the upcomin

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Hey, cool. so ARCH=ppc will work both for apus and prep, and the rest should > go with ARCH=powerpc. This is the case both for 2.6.16 and the upcoming > 2.6.17, right ? I don't remember when he fixed it precisely but I think 2.6.16 got it yes. > So, the basic plan is to have a -prep ARCH=ppc f

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:38:07PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Hey, cool. so ARCH=ppc will work both for apus and prep, and the rest should > > go with ARCH=powerpc. This is the case both for 2.6.16 and the upcoming > > 2.6.17, right ? > > I don't remember when he fixed it precisel

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:10:32AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 15:02 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:18:40PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > > > > Its not a mkvmlinuz problem, the problem is in the kernel itself, and > > > >

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 15:02 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:18:40PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > > Its not a mkvmlinuz problem, the problem is in the kernel itself, and > > > > will > > > > probably be fixed for 2.6.17. I am watching this, and will try to

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:18:40PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > Its not a mkvmlinuz problem, the problem is in the kernel itself, and will > > > probably be fixed for 2.6.17. I am watching this, and will try to do a > > > backport if something promising comes on. Not sure i will ha

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > Its not a mkvmlinuz problem, the problem is in the kernel itself, and will > > probably be fixed for 2.6.17. I am watching this, and will try to do a > > backport if something promising comes on. Not sure i will have the time to > > fix > > it myself though. Prep has been relegated to an emb

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
Can we all just get along please? Everyone please just take a big bite of humble pie, step back and realize that everyone wants the same thing - ie a good debian operating system! People will cross people, but lets all be grown ups and forgive people their weaknesses looking forward to their val

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:20:09AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 27 April 2006 13:39, Sven Luther wrote: > > maintainer, and removed my d-i commit rights, there is no way for me to > > I revoked your commit rights immediately after your resignation from the > team because I felt (and I st

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 27 April 2006 13:39, Sven Luther wrote: > maintainer, and removed my d-i commit rights, there is no way for me to I revoked your commit rights immediately after your resignation from the team because I felt (and I still do) that things had deteriorated so much that the d-i team was b

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Sven Luther wrote: > I have seen Frans claim various times about patches and changes i was > proposing that it will never be applied anyway because i proposed it, and he > didn't thrust me. Do you really thing that in the light of this me sending in > patches just to have them rote in the BTS is va

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The question is : Did frans have a ethic reason to remove my commit > access, or did he do it only out of spit to get ride of me ? I have > seen many argue that since i resigned from being 'the d-i powerpc > porter' it was ok for him to remove those commit

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 04:48:25PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But nobody cared to inform the powerpc users, who where trying to use the > > broken images on machines the april 1 build could not work. > > I'm a powerpc user, and I wasn't tryin

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 04:48:07PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have seen Frans claim various times about patches and changes i > > was proposing that it will never be applied anyway because i > > proposed it, and he didn't thrust me. Do you r

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But nobody cared to inform the powerpc users, who where trying to use the > broken images on machines the april 1 build could not work. I'm a powerpc user, and I wasn't trying to use the broken images. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have seen Frans claim various times about patches and changes i > was proposing that it will never be applied anyway because i > proposed it, and he didn't thrust me. Do you really thing that in > the light of this me sending in patches just to have them

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 01:24:56AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:15:10AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:44:37AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > the d-i isos are broken, and had i not been there, they will probably have > > > been broken for anothe

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 05:07:07PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:16:15PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > debian-cd changes I committed over the last hour or two. I hadn't been > > paying attention to CD build logs; I'll know to do so in the future. > > Cool. Still, i feel t

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Adrian Zaugg
Hi all Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:17:26PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: That's not to say, of course, that fresh porting blood wouldn't be a good thing. Why must it be "fresh blood"? Isn't "blood" enough? I don't see the point revoking rights of a developer, who helped and seems

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:15:10AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:44:37AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:38:14PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > What I'm saying is that no amout of proof that they will not be able > > > to meet the targets

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:44:37AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:38:14PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > What I'm saying is that no amout of proof that they will not be able > > to meet the targets is relevant. What's relevant is actual failure to > > do so, not your

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 04:02:17PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am not willing to send in patches now. I was kicked out of d-i a month > > ago. > > Gotcha. I don't understand why, however. I lack write access to all > kinds of things, but

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am not willing to send in patches now. I was kicked out of d-i a month ago. Gotcha. I don't understand why, however. I lack write access to all kinds of things, but I still send in patches. It sounds like you care about powerpc support, so I find it

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:38:14PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > No, i was kicked out of the d-i project. That is sad. Even so, i was > > willing to help, and discovered this not because they told it to me, > > but because i was blocked from help

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, i was kicked out of the d-i project. That is sad. Even so, i was > willing to help, and discovered this not because they told it to me, > but because i was blocked from helping. They had to do it meakly in > my back. What I heard you say was that you

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:25:59PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It should be removed from the actual etch release candidate until the > > situation improves. The etch release candidate guidelines include a working > > and well supported d-i port

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It should be removed from the actual etch release candidate until the > situation improves. The etch release candidate guidelines include a working > and well supported d-i port, and this criteria is not fullfilled, so powerpc > should be dropped from pote

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:11:16PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > No, i am raising an alarm earlier, so people who care about powerpc will > > have > > time to act, and will not stay believing all is fine, and end with a mess 8 > > month from now

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, i am raising an alarm earlier, so people who care about powerpc will have > time to act, and will not stay believing all is fine, and end with a mess 8 > month from now or such. Hrm, perhaps I misunderstood your subject line. I understood it not to b

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:59:27PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well, who is working on the powerpc d-i port ? Only Colin Watson, > > but his duties in ubuntu don't leave him enough time to do the work > > properly, and it was always me in the p

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, who is working on the powerpc d-i port ? Only Colin Watson, > but his duties in ubuntu don't leave him enough time to do the work > properly, and it was always me in the past who ended up doing the > work nobody else cared about. I don't understand

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:33:51PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The debian installer netinst and businesscard images are now broken > > since almost a month, and since the d-i team kicked me out as > > powerpc maintainer, and removed my d-i comm

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, i will not go this way. If the social problem doesn't solve itself in the > near future, i am much more proposing to host a forked version of the d-i and > some key packages, and fix stuff there. So you are now declaring that you will not submit the p

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The debian installer netinst and businesscard images are now broken > since almost a month, and since the d-i team kicked me out as > powerpc maintainer, and removed my d-i commit rights, there is no > way for me to help fix this, and this clearly demostra

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:16:15PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:17:26PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:34:00PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:39:27PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > The debian installer netinst and

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:17:26PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:34:00PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:39:27PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > The debian installer netinst and businesscard images are now broken since > > > almost a month, > > >

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:34:00PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:39:27PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > The debian installer netinst and businesscard images are now broken since > > almost a month, > > FYI I expect to be able to get this issue sorted out today/tomorrow. I

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:15:18AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The debian installer netinst and businesscard images are now broken since > > almost a month, and since the d-i team kicked me out as powerpc maintainer, > > and removed my d-i commit r

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 07:59:17AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > > >The debian installer netinst and businesscard images are now broken since > >almost a month, and since the d-i team kicked me out as powerpc maintainer, > >and removed my d-i commit rights, there is no w

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:39:27PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > The debian installer netinst and businesscard images are now broken since > almost a month, FYI I expect to be able to get this issue sorted out today/tomorrow. I was somewhat behind on debian-boot@ mail and hadn't realised it was a pr

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Otavio Salvador
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The debian installer netinst and businesscard images are now broken since > almost a month, and since the d-i team kicked me out as powerpc maintainer, > and removed my d-i commit rights, there is no way for me to help fix this, and > this clearly demostra

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Sven Luther wrote: The debian installer netinst and businesscard images are now broken since almost a month, and since the d-i team kicked me out as powerpc maintainer, and removed my d-i commit rights, there is no way for me to help fix this, and this clearly demostrates that the d-i powerpc po

The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, A few things came to my attention today, and i think that if d-i support is still a prerequisite for etch support of an arch, i think you should consider dropping powerpc of it. The debian installer netinst and businesscard images are now broken since almost a month, and since the d-i team