Re: Give away: iBook G4

2021-04-08 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi On Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 05:39:18PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > In case you didn't get my mail off-list. I would be interested and > I'm in Berlin so shipping is cheap. I didn't get that e-mail and I actually forgot to ask you first. Anyway, you can have it. I won't send the bat

Re: Give away: iBook G4

2021-04-04 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 03:20:03PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > I found an old iBook G4, unknown variant, in my pile of older > electronics. > I would need to check if it actually works and that no data is left on > it. I checked it. This is a model A1055, 768MB of DDR RAM install

Give away: iBook G4

2021-04-02 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks I found an old iBook G4, unknown variant, in my pile of older electronics. Could someone make use of that? I would need to check if it actually works and that no data is left on it. It's located near Stuttgart, Germany. Regards, Bastian -- It is necessary to have purpose.

Re: Working go-1.13 on ppc64 G5?

2019-10-21 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 08:09:35PM -0700, Christian Calderon wrote: > I've installed go-1.13 on my G5 (Quad 2.5) but I get an Illegal Instruction > error. Is there any hope of getting this to run on my architecture or do I > need to try to make things work with gnu-go? My ultimate goal is to get >

Releasing ppc64el cloud images with Buster

2019-06-07 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Do we want to release ppc64el cloud images with Buster? They work for me but only got minimal test coverage. Regards, Bastian -- Our way is peace. -- Septimus, the Son Worshiper, "Bread and Circuses", stardate 4040.7.

Re: Archiving the attic folders from d-i for ports

2018-04-26 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 05:37:25AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Since there are still some repositories that we need for debian-ports > in the attic, I was wondering whether we should take care of the > attic stuff and move it over to salsa or github. Could you show a list? Just migr

Re: Work to be done on ppc64el before the release (or even before)

2014-09-21 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 05:48:51PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > A quick note about this one. Andi Barth has started to debug that, and > I have continued a bit. The following code doesn't work correctly on > ppc64el, printing twice a positive value. This exact behaviour is tested in the boost te

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-22 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:04:42PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: > On 09/21/2013 03:22 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: > > Can you please describe the advantages of this new port? > This is going to be part of the OpenPower consortium. This article[1] > describe a > little bit a

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-21 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 02:42:53PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: > Now that PowerPC was announced to have Little Endian support, I'd like to > enable > it on Debian, as a ppc64el architecture. Can you please describe the advantages of this new port? What versions of the Linux kernel, gcc, glibc are

Re: Generic solution for overflowing GOT table

2013-03-12 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 01:00:38AM +0100, Roland Stigge wrote: > Just as a small follow-up: In the above case, -fpic instead of -fPIC > fixes the issue. Is this acceptable in Debian for shared libs? This reduces the size of the file and therefor works around the too large offsets. However it is no

Re: wine considered not-for-us on powerpc

2012-06-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 09:07:31PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Just curious why that is? The latest wine built fine on powerpc in > experimental: > https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=wine&arch=powerpc Does wine include a proper test suite to make sure it can run real world binaries

Re: staging drivers in ppc daily iso / 3.2.0 kernel

2012-03-26 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 07:48:20PM +0300, Gasha wrote: > but no luck with zram :( > root@ppc1:/lib/modules/3.2.0-2-powerpc64/kernel/drivers/staging# ls > speakup > Any ideas? Staging drivers are only enabled on request. Please write a bug-report against the kernel. Bastian -- Only a fool fights

State of mkvmlinuz

2012-01-27 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks There is a package called mkvmlinuz in the archive. It is maintained by the kernel team. mkvmlinuz is only used on the powerpc architecture. Does anyone know the current state of mkvmlinuz? Is it still needed? Bastian -- ... bacteriological warfare ... hard to believe we were once fo

Re: vlc built with --disable-altivec works where the sid one does not - iMac G3

2011-06-29 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 09:14:23AM -0300, Gunther Furtado wrote: > and vlc was playing and streaming (what I really want it to do) video > again. Then I tried: > $ ./configure --disable-altivec > and everything still works! > > My hardware is an iMac G3 - 333MHz > # cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor

Re: debian-powerpc support

2010-08-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 07:28:01AM -0700, Gary Driggs wrote: > On Aug 28, 2010, at 5:31 AM, Bastian Blank wrote: > > And NetBSD actually supports less cpu architectures then Linux. > That's never been true. NetBSD currently supports 15 different CPU types; > http://netbsd.org

Re: debian-powerpc support

2010-08-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:45:09PM -0700, Brian Morris wrote: > remember that you are free to take what you want and to customize what > you want, for instance you can take just the core system from debian > at least and wouldn't that help you versus putting together your own > custom distro from k

Re: Wifi configuration Debian Lenny Ibook G3

2009-02-10 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 11:54:54PM -0600, Esteban Monge wrote: > I don't understand how you can ask > for help on how to use complicated tools just because you don't like the > easier one Where did Geoff, the person you replied to, ask for help on this tools? > In my > experience, you'll nee

Re: anyone running a ps3

2008-10-21 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 04:22:20PM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 21:11 +0200, sean finney wrote: > > anyone using a ps3 with a stock debian kernel, or know of existing issues > > with said kernels in debian >= lenny? > It won't work. The debian kernel does not have PS3 support

Re: Poor performance of G5 on GNOME's CPU benchmarks.

2008-08-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 05:32:26PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 11:53 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > The result is that on some particular types of computations, the G5 > > performs extremely bad: something like twice slower as an old 1.5 Ghz > > Celeron machine. For s

Re: Debian for PS3?

2008-02-23 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:09:23PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > - PS3 kernel support > o Although there's now full PS3 support in plain 2.6.24 (except for > wireless), the 2.6.24 kernel images in sid have PS3 support turned off. > Enabling PS3 support should be a matter of

Re: Will using kernel 2.6.24 make my laptop faster?

2008-02-12 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 06:43:08PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > This has changed between Sarge and Etch? Yes. It was changed in 3.2.2-5. > It seems, that my Etch-Office-Workstation (2.6.18) is doing dependencie > checking at each bootup. Maybe this is a forgotten old piece of script > from S

Re: Will using kernel 2.6.24 make my laptop faster?

2008-02-08 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 03:22:54PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2008-01-31 23:35:31, schrieb Gaudenz Steinlin: > > Do you have any numbers that kernel with unneeded hardware options not > > compiled in actually run faster? I would be very suprised by this as the > > additional code just neve

Re: network problem on openpower710

2007-09-05 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:35:43PM +0200, xavier grave wrote: > - ifconfig eth0 gives : > eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found You did not show that there are no interfaces. Why? ip link? ls -al /sys/class/net/? Bastian -- Dammit Jim, I'm an actor, not a doctor.

Re: CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set on PowerPC

2007-08-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:58:30AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Any one knows why official PowerPC kernels are configured with > CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS unset? This makes programs using some pty's > fail to work. See bug 430632 for instance. ttyrec supports the usage of openpty, but with two problem

Re: read apple partition scheme from amd64

2007-07-09 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 04:19:59PM +0200, Jorge Salamero Sanz wrote: > i've taken out the hard disk from my old ibook g3 and i'd like to be able to > read it from my new macbook (amd64). > is this possible ? Why didn't you try it? The kernels supports mac partition tables: | $ grep PARTI -r linu

Re: RfT: MOL 0.9.71~pre9 uploaded to unstable

2006-10-05 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:44:20AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > I agree that the out of tree module building for MOL should be done in > linux-modules-extra-2.6. This was the main reason why I did not > upload the modules as well. I could not figure out how to add a module > only for one parti

Re: sarge kernel frozen (2.4.27 and 2.6.8), and plans for post-sarge powerpc kernels.

2005-04-08 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 01:53:28PM +0900, Horms wrote: > Ok, I'll try and be a little more specific. Do you know of any > machines that are available to kernel team members, or more > generally debian developers, to do ppc builds? trick.rz.uni-augsburg.de, a power5 machine, is open on request. B