Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 06:13:50PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: Hello everybody, the release date for Jessie is near, but the installation-guide does not seem to contain any arm64/ppc64el-specific information yet. It would be nice if those who are familiar with those platforms could provide

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Shawn Landden
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 08:45:50PM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: Sorry for jumping in. I would like the chance to complement and clarify some things about ppc64el platform. As Aurelien pointed

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 08:45:50PM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: Sorry for jumping in. I would like the chance to complement and clarify some things about ppc64el platform. As Aurelien pointed out, when used in OPAL mode, the system will boot a system running petitboot, which

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Aurelien Jarno, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 22:08:44 +0200, a écrit : On 2015-04-12 20:22, Samuel Thibault wrote: Since petitboot runs inside a running linux kernel, that only shifts the problem of booting that linux kernel :) Petitboot is the default bootloader on this machine when configured to

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 22:04 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 20:27:29 +0100, a écrit : On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 20:45 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 00:35:33 +0100, a écrit : On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 20:22 +0200, Holger Wansing

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 23:13:34 +0100, a écrit : I've fixed these values (I hope) for armhf, arm64, mips and mipsel based on the current kernel configurations. Thanks! Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org (2015-04-12): Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 17:13:06 +0200, a écrit : All that contained in attached patch for review. The manual builds fine with it. Thanks, I have fixed a couple more things and commited it. Cyril, when should we upload an

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 11:06:08PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Aurelien Jarno, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 22:08:44 +0200, a écrit : On 2015-04-12 20:22, Samuel Thibault wrote: Since petitboot runs inside a running linux kernel, that only shifts the problem of booting that linux kernel :)

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Sandeep G.R
On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Sandeep G.R wrote: I have a sid PPC64 from http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ports running on Freescale Powerpc. Is their PPC64(Big-Endian) for Jessie similarly? The PPC64 port didn't get

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Sandeep G.R
Lennart, Thanks for more information. I can check with Freescale running little endian on e6500. On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 07:16:50AM -0600, Sandeep G.R wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Paul Wise

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 07:16:50AM -0600, Sandeep G.R wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Sandeep G.R wrote: I have a sid PPC64 from http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ports running on Freescale Powerpc. Is their

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 20:45 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 00:35:33 +0100, a écrit : On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 20:22 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: supports-smp-sometimes - that generation of cpu will most likely fully support smp,

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 17:13:06 +0200, a écrit : +arch_porturl=ppc64el +arch_listname=ppc64el Please take care when updating these to be sure to understand what they mean. http://www.debian.org/ports/ppc64el and http://lists.debian.org/debian-ppc64el don't exist. Samuel -- To

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 21:20:37 +0200, a écrit : And: is there support for the graphical installer? As far as I can see, the images do not contain the graphical installer. See the documentation we have for powerpc: we generate only the mini GTK isos for it (on e.g.

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 00:35:33 +0100, a écrit : On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 20:22 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: supports-smp-sometimes - that generation of cpu will most likely fully support smp, right? [...] Yes. That's not the question here, see the bit of

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 20:36:22 +0200, a écrit : Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 20:22:49 +0200, a écrit : supports-floppy-boot - I think that arch has no floppy support Does ppc64el supports booting from a USB stick? More precisely, at the moment the only enabled documented

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 17:13:06 +0200, a écrit : All that contained in attached patch for review. The manual builds fine with it. Thanks, I have fixed a couple more things and commited it. Cyril, when should we upload an updated installation guide to be ready for RC3? Samuel --

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Mmm, the following looks like a useless addition: Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 17:13:06 +0200, a écrit : Index: en/boot-installer/powerpc.xml === --- en/boot-installer/powerpc.xml (Revision 69729) +++

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 20:22:49 +0200, a écrit : supports-floppy-boot - I think that arch has no floppy support Does ppc64el supports booting from a USB stick? Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 20:27:29 +0100, a écrit : On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 20:45 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 00:35:33 +0100, a écrit : On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 20:22 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: supports-smp-sometimes - that generation of cpu will

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2015-04-12 20:22, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Mmm, the following looks like a useless addition: Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 17:13:06 +0200, a écrit : Index: en/boot-installer/powerpc.xml === ---