Hello, I would like testers who want to test new powerpc kernels on ppc64 machines :
These i have uploaded here : http://people.debian.org/~luther/ppc64/kernel-image-2.6.12-sven_1_powerpc.deb http://people.debian.org/~luther/ppc64/kernel-image-2.6.12-sven64_1_powerpc.deb They are built out of the 2.6.12 debian kernel subversion package, but built with the ubuntu glibc and gcc-4.0 packages which do support biarch, something we don't (yet) have in debian. sven is the powerpc flavour, and sven64 is the new pseries flavour which is smp, and which will replace all the power3, power3-smp, power4 and power4-smp flavours. (and yes, we are killing the non-smp versions of those kernels). Later will follow a pseries-power4 flavour which optimizes for power4 (no idea if this brings something or not though), as well as a legacy-iseries flavour, for pre-power5 iseries machines, if anyone has access to one of those, please contact me and see if we can arrange some testing of stuff and such. This means that for 2.6.12 there will be no power3/4 kernels in the archive, because the toolchain guys (mostly doko and gotom) didn't yet have time to upload the biarch toolchain, and couldn't make any prediction of timeframe for it too happen, despite sarge being out over a month now, and ubuntu having it for a couple of months. So if you need ppc64 packages urgently, you know who to blame for it :) I will provide unofficial packages at : http://people.debian.org/~luther/ppc64/ Hopefully in sync with the debian uploads, altough i may be offline the next two weeks. The debian packages will include instructions on how to build those yourself also. On another side, Manoj seems to consider powerpc support as not important, and downgraded bug #318431 to whishlist, and clearly shows no interest in fixing this, which means pain for the powerpc upload, as well as problematic for the ppc64 packages, so kernel-package is another package you have to patch in order to make the ppc64 build happen, thanks Manoj for the pain :) And to finish, this was all built for you on a Genesi Pegasos machine, at debconf 5 in helsinki, without any test on real ppc64 hardware, or help from IBM, who apparently messed up (well, together with our previous DPL i fear) what they believed was a debian donation of machines which ended up in Augsbourg without anyone in the debian project even being aware of it. Anyway, please test and enjoy, and provide feedback. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
