Hello Simon, Il giorno lun, 29/06/2020 alle 19.19 +0100, Simon McVittie ha scritto: > On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 19:23:49 +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > > Well, this is another problem I am facing. I installed debian linux and > > it has been officially supported until a two versions ago, when kernel > > 3.16 was current. > > To be clear about this: neither of the currently-supported Debian releases > (versions 10 and 9) supports powerpc hardware. The newest Debian release > that contains powerpc is Debian 8, which reached end-of-life 2 years ago. > Debian 8 on x86 and 32-bit ARM had semi-official "long term support" > which is due to end about now, but this did not cover powerpc. > > According to Wikipedia, the last Powerbook models were discontinued in > 2006. I think enabling PMU support more widely, for the benefit of 14 > year old hardware, seems likely to be an uphill struggle.
I completely agree with you. I am studying how to port again powerpc into debian stable and I am checking all problems and see if they are easily fixable. If this is the case, I'll provide patches. Probably I should be back to upower once I have a more recent kernel. Bye, Giuseppe _______________________________________________ devkit-devel mailing list devkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel
