Re: [PATCH] 4.18-rc7 on alpha: bitsperlong issue

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 1:42 PM Bob Tracy wrote: > > Apologies for what is essentially a repost with a proper subject header > in the sense of trying to get the attention of people who collect/approve > patches for submission upstream. See my posting from earlier today > (followup: [FTBFS]

Re: fdisk vs. BSD disklabels and slices

On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 2:31 PM Bob Tracy wrote: > > Has anyone reading this used a recent version of "fdisk" to create a BSD > disklabel and disk slices from scratch on an Alpha? If so, would you > please describe the procedure in enough detail that relevant Linux > installation documentation

Re: [BUG] 4.13.0 kernel build error on Alpha

On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Bob Tracy wrote: > Here we go again :-(. Tool versions as follows: > > gcc version 7.2.0 (Debian 7.2.0-3) > GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.29 (binutils 2.29-9) > > Note evidence of the ".alphalib" section patch first tried with the 4.9

Re: [BUG] 4.9.0 build error on Alpha

FWIW, when I saw your first email I tried compiling with gcc-4.9.4, 5.4.0, and 6.2.0. All compiled my config fine. I'm guessing it's another symptom of the old "kernel too big" problem?

Re: Multia state of support

On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Michael Cree <mc...@orcon.net.nz> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 12:44:01PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Michael Cree <mc...@orcon.net.nz> wrote: >> > On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 07:33:34PM +

Re: Multia state of support

On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Michael Cree wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 07:33:34PM +0300, lausg...@gmail.com wrote: >> > What finally happened to dedicated xf86-video-tga driver? >> > The last trace for me is >> >

Re: many packages held for alpha

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Michael Cree <mc...@orcon.net.nz> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 03:18:46PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Michael Cree <mc...@orcon.net.nz> wrote: >> > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:05:54AM -0500, Bob

Re: many packages held for alpha

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Michael Cree wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:05:54AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 07:56:29AM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: >> > The main problem is >> > that cmake FTBFS (Bug #789807) thus a growing proportion of the >>

Re: Permedia 2 (Elsa Gloria Synergy) glint driver ?

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 3:02 AM, Michael Cree mc...@orcon.net.nz wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 09:29:17AM +, Markus wrote: Somewhere i still have an ATI Radeon 9250 PCI video card; do you think still will work ? Yes, that card will work. The only problem is that you may need to compile

Re: iceweasel 10.0.1-1+alpha

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Michael Cree mc...@orcon.net.nz wrote: I've just got another optimisation bug introduced in gcc-4.6 fixed. What's that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Iceweasel [was Re: firefox-8.0.1]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Bob Tracy r...@gherkin.frus.com wrote: Let's go with that last one.  I was pretty sure I had more physical RAM in my PWS 433au than I evidently do: /proc/meminfo implies I've got somewhere in the vicinity of 576 MB, at least 512 MB of which is what I purchased

Re: Alpha ES45 buildd

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Tim Cutts t...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: As I've said several times,  the current ES45 buildd, goetz.debian.org, will be available for someone to take as soon as the official Debian alpha ports no longer need it for Lenny support.  Once Wheezy is released,

Re: problem compiling kernel ld error relocation truncated to fit: GPREL16 against symbol

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:54 PM, carl hansen carlhansen1...@gmail.com wrote: Problem compiling kernel 3.1, gcc 4.6.1 or .2, latest binutils I think it's ld error google suggested -Wl,--no-relax, didn't make a difference, unless I did  it wrong  ld  -static -N  --build-id -o .tmp_vmlinux1

Re: iceweasel-6.0.2

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Bob Tracy r...@gherkin.frus.com wrote: Woo-HOO!  I'm pleased to announce a successful Alpha build of iceweasel 6.0.2-1, xulrunner-6.0 6.0.2-1, and libmozjs6d 6.0.2-1.  I would *like* to make the .deb packages available for interested parties to download and

Re: iceweasel-6.0.2

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Michael Cree mc...@orcon.net.nz wrote:  Still have to specify --disable-ipc as well, which isn't necessary on supported architectures: that would need to be implemented and pushed upstream as well. I think that would be relatively straight-forward to

Re: Beware of new udev

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Michael Cree mc...@orcon.net.nz wrote: On 26/09/11 19:20, Michael Cree wrote: On 26/09/11 06:42, Uwe Schindler wrote: Do you have linux-image-3.0-alpha-generic ? I am also upgrading, but want to make sure I don't break my udev, but maybe it works with 3.0

Re: Where to start hacking unstable on Alpha?

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Gianluca Bonetti gianluca.bone...@gmail.com wrote: I suggest a simple CMS based web site, say Drupal CMS with forum and project handling modules to help developers in sharing their knowledge and hacking efforts up to a positive result for everyone. If such

Re: firefox-4.0.1

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Michael Cree mc...@orcon.net.nz wrote: BTW, I don't think anyone has implemented the Alpha specific code for IPC.  I think firefox has to be compiled with --disable-ipc.  IIRC, the architecture specific code is a set of atomic operations, of which the

Re: Compaq Fortran Compiler RPM Decryption Key

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Peter Barfuss bofh@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, It seems that Compaq/HP seem to completely ignore the existence of the Compaq Fortran Compiler for Alpha (their enthusiast/education licensing page ultimately leads to a dead server... not just a 404, a

Re: alpha and hppa removal from unstable/experimental

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Mark Hymers m...@debian.org wrote: Hi, As mentioned in the recent ftp-team meeting minutes, we're planning to remove alpha and hppa from unstable.  They were removed from testing before the squeeze release and there's no sign that they will be release

Re: current status of alpha in squeeze - Next Steps

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Robert Garron robert.gar...@access3000.net wrote: Stop creating a new thread every time you reply. It makes reading the email chains difficult. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: current status of alpha in squeeze - Storage Question - we will need to store the code some where - Fwd: Disk drives

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Robert Garron robert.gar...@access3000.net wrote: Joel, Can your group do what Bill is asking below? Similar to the change of 36 gig to 300 gig... Regards, Robert --  Forwarded Message  -- Subject: Disk drives Date: Mon March 28 2011

Re: current status of alpha in squeeze

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Joel Nimar joel.ni...@pyramiddec.com wrote: Hi Robert: Glad to hear from you and thank you for your kind words. Pyramid can help you with firmware upgrades. We have microfiche and cd's that tell us the minimal acceptable revision level for maintenance and a

Re: Debian on Alpha

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Mark Wickens m...@wickensonline.co.uk wrote: Hi Guys, I'd like to add my offer of support to the issue of debian on alpha. Should we get a wiki together to help keep the effort going? I'd be happy to get something together for us to focus the effort if it

Re: current status of alpha in squeeze

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:28 PM, A.B. arne-bomb...@foni.net wrote: I did not find any distribution which could run on my alphas. I don't think you looked very hard. I wrote this page in Nov 2008 and it's barely changed since:

Re: recent udev upgrade failure on alpha

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Uwe Schindler u...@thetaphi.de wrote: My bigger problem is that recent kernels (even the stable one no longer work for me). On mounting my root  xfs filesystem it produces a message about a wrong relocation format / some other linking problem when loading the

Re: Netboot a 5305?

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Mark Ter Morshuizen m...@itbox.co.za wrote: Anyone know if it is possible to netboot a Alphaserver 5305 without mopd? My CD-ROM seems flaky and I forgot the root password after not using the machine for about 3 years. If it's like every other alpha, you should

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 01:51:49PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 04:19:10PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 03:43:57PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: For wheezy I'm planning to

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Adam Goode a...@spicenitz.org wrote: On 11/14/2010 12:42 PM, Matt Turner wrote: Please ignore me if I've misunderstood the situation, firstly. Both Fedora and Gentoo are using --as-needed by default now. And from what I've read (google: site:blog.flameeyes.eu

Re: Looking for two pairs of DS10L rails

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Matt Turner matts...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Tom Linden t...@kednos.com wrote: Try Puget Sound Data Systems Thanks for the email. I guess these are the same people selling Alpha CPUs for $650 on eBay [1]? I'm more looking more

Looking for two pairs of DS10L rails

Hi, I've got two DS10Ls sitting at OSUOSL [1] idle because they won't rack them without rails. They're going to be set up to help with Alpha development things. I'd be great to get some rails if someone has any. Let me know if you've got some. Thanks, Matt [1] http://osuosl.org/ -- To

Re: Looking for two pairs of DS10L rails

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Tom Linden t...@kednos.com wrote: Try Puget Sound Data Systems Thanks for the email. I guess these are the same people selling Alpha CPUs for $650 on eBay [1]? I'm more looking more for donations, rather than paying more for a set of rails than I could get a

Re: current state of sid (unstable)

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Michael Cree mc...@orcon.net.nz wrote: Comments welcome.  I've received one strong recommendation to give Gentoo a try, Matt, no doubt :-/  He's a great evangelist for Gentoo. Turn that :-/ upside.. well, not down. :-\ is pretty much the same. (Yes, it was me)

Re: kernel regression on 164UX

(You might want to turn off HTML mail for mailing list posts.) On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Ian Las ia...@yahoo.com wrote: Completed initial tests. Last working kernel for 164Ux is 2.6.22.19 First broken kernel is 2.6.23 Installed Git package. Need some help how to continue: As

Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Ian Las ia...@yahoo.com wrote: Built a custom 2.6.27 kernel on a 164LX system with Alphabios and it works withouit any problems but unfortunately it seems that a kernel = 2.6.23 does not work for a 164UX system. What is the reason for the problem and any

Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Michael Cree mc...@orcon.net.nz wrote: On 30/07/2010, at 9:24 AM, Ian Las wrote: Built a custom 2.6.27 kernel on a 164LX system with Alphabios and it works withouit any problems but unfortunately it seems that a kernel = 2.6.23 does not work for a 164UX

Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010/6/17 Piotr Gliźniewicz gli...@gmail.com: Hi, I'm trying to install Debian on my 164LX with AlphaBIOS. Since the newest DVD I can boot from MILO (I'm using the one provided on the Woody DVD) is Sarge, I installed it and begun upgrading to Etch (as advised in the Lenny readme). I've done

Re: Bug#558752: www.debian.org: Too many Alpha porters on intro/organization

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Rafael Ruiz gand...@gmail.com wrote: So, Nowdays there are a Linux distribution for Alpha working? Is NetBSD and OpenBSD our only choice? Gentoo is the only actively maintained distribution. Linux kernel is good for Alpha, specially 2.4. You should try 2.6.

Re: Bug#556790: gcc-4.3: unrecognizable insn on alpha

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Michael Cree mc...@orcon.net.nz wrote: On 18/11/2009, at 9:31 AM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Package: gcc-4.3 Version: 4.3.4-5 Hi, I recently started seeing several cases of gcc giving an error message like this: packet-l2tp.c:1680: error: unrecognizable insn:

Re: [gentoo-alpha] Need X testers on Alpha. I think we've got it this time.

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Brian Parkhurst bri...@spamcop.net wrote: How do you recommend I download your repo for compiling under gentoo? The easiest/best way is to first install layman (emerge layman) and with it add the 'x11' overlay. See here for instructions wrt layman:

Re: [gentoo-alpha] Need X testers on Alpha. I think we've got it this time.

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Geoff Martin geoffmar...@gmail.com wrote: I have a 164LX with a Matrox Millennium II and a just installed Debian Lenny, all hardware is the same as 10 years ago : ). Can I help you with the test? what do I need to do? In general, you need to install the

Re: [gentoo-alpha] Need X testers on Alpha. I think we've got it this time.

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Jarod Wilson ja...@redhat.com wrote: On 10/8/09 9:56 AM, Matt Turner wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Geoff Martingeoffmar...@gmail.com  wrote:      I have a 164LX with a Matrox Millennium II and a just installed Debian Lenny, all hardware is the same

Re: [BUG] recent squeeze X11 updates causing SIGSEGV on startup

needed on some systems, let me know and we'll figure out something. Otherwise, that code is gone from xserver-1.7 and shouldn't cause any more problems. I don't know if anyone is planning another 1.6.x release, but if they are, they might consider cherry-picking that commit. Thanks, Matt Turner

Re: [BUG] recent squeeze X11 updates causing SIGSEGV on startup

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:27:28 -0400, Matt Turner wrote: Hi, Thanks for the report. I was getting the exact same failure as you. The crash happens in xf86SlowBCopyFromBus, which seems to be totally useless. So I

Re: [RFC] Dropping Alpha sparse mapping support from X

Thanks for the responses, everyone. On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Maciej W. Rozyckima...@linux-mips.org wrote: On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Matt Turner wrote: I'd like to drop support for non-BWX Alphas (EV4 and original EV5) from X. These machines can't load/store to single bytes and require

Re: 1.7 and 7.5 status: we're frozen

I have ati cards -- an RV280 and an RV610.  It may be the weekend before I can complete the compilation of the Xserver and run it. Thus far I've gotten three testers with matrox cards, but only me with a radeon. So this is excellent. Sorry, but your instructions for that (in your reply to

[RFC] Dropping Alpha sparse mapping support from X

close to zero usage, and even less testing. Does anyone use X on EV4 or EV5 (not EV56, EV56 has BWX)? Thanks, Matt Turner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Fwd: 1.7 and 7.5 status: we're frozen

. Thanks, Matt Turner [0] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23227 [1] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21546 -- Forwarded message -- From: Daniel Stone dan...@fooishbar.org Date: Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:19 PM Subject: 1.7 and 7.5 status: we're frozen To: xorg-de

Re: Fwd: 1.7 and 7.5 status: we're frozen

Hi Jon, On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Dialup Jon Norstogthurs...@allidaho.com wrote: Matt, I care enough to join.  Just point the way (link) Get an IRC client and join #alpha on Freenode. I'm mattst88. BTW, IBM just announced details of the forthcoming Power 7 CPU.  Four cores each

Re: Iceweasel / Iceape on Alpha Lenny

turning anything up. I'm CC'ing al...@gentoo.org to see if they remember anything. Matt Turner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Help on memchr() EGLIBC assembly code

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Aurelien Jarnoaurel...@aurel32.net wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 02:24:00PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Aurelien Jarnoaurel...@aurel32.net wrote: With a lot of patches (E)GLIBC 2.10 builds on alpha, but it fails on the

Re: AlphaLinux Wiki: Patches page created

Hi, On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Michael Cree mc...@orcon.net.nz wrote: Matt Turner wrote: I've finally created a patches page on the wiki, http://alphalinux.org/wiki/index.php/Patches Good idea. I've applied the futex patches against a 2.6.29.1 kernel and have it running.  Any

AlphaLinux Wiki: Patches page created

Hi, I've finally created a patches page on the wiki, http://alphalinux.org/wiki/index.php/Patches The hope is that the distributions that are still supporting Alpha will use this page to collaborate by posting links to patches here. The format should be == What the Patch Does == * Author: *

Re: network-manager_0.7.0.97 fails to build on alpha

Hi, Since the patch fixes a bug and is otherwise harmless, why not push it upstream? Thanks, Matt Turner On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Arthur Loiret aloi...@debian.org wrote: Package: network-manager Version: 0.7.0.97-1 Severity: serious User: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Tags: patch

Re: squeeze and the future of the alpha port, redux

this is again a call for a central place for patches. Then again, there is a serious lack of actual developers for Alpha. I'll see what I can figure out. Matt Turner -of -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas