Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-22 Thread Frank Fegert 
Hello,

I am an active tester/user for the following architectures and I intend
to continue this for the lifetime of the jessie release:

For powerpc, ppc64, I
  - test most base packages on this architecture
  - test d-i on this architecture
  - follow debian-powerpc on at least a daily basis
  - would like to provide buildd/developer machines (i.e. LPARs on an
old IBM Power6 P550 with console access)

I am not a DD/DM

Best regards,

Frank Fegert


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Re: Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?

2010-09-18 Thread Frank Fegert 
Hello,

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 08:58:06AM +0200, Zsombor wrote:
 2010/9/17 Aurélien GÉRÔME a...@debian.org:
 
  I miss some physical 64-bit hardware to test it, mainly access to
  pSeries, but I guess people on this list will be able to test d-i
  images before I can submit changes, won't they?
 
 
 I also have some 64bit Power HW to test (IBM and Bull machines), maybe
 pSeries, too. Next week I can provide more details.
 However, my work will be limited to testing, I dont think I can
 participate to reliable package maintenance work.

i also can offer testing on RS6000/pSeries/System P hardware. We're
already running several instances of Debian 5.0.5 in LPARs in our
Power5, 5+, 6 and 6+ environment. All LPARs are fully virtualized
with dual VIOS, so unfortunately full system partition tests are
not possible :-/ At home i can do tests against PowerPC 604e (32bit),
Power3 and Power4 (both 64bit).
To get the 5.0.5 system booting on Power6/6+ after installation, i
already had to patch yaboot up from the stock 1.3.13a to 1.3.14rc2 -
the newest version at that time. Strangely though the installer it-
self didn't mind booting at all! But even with 1.3.14rc2 there are
occasionally boot problems, where you get thrown back to the yaboot
prompt and on second try everything starts up fine. So if it were
possible to ditch the whole yaboot stuff in favour of e.g. Grub2 i'd
be more than happy.

Best regards,

Frank


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