Re: Re: glibc recompile - optimized for G5 cpu target

2016-01-11 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Jan 11, Peter Saisanas wrote: > Am i doing something wrong, or is there simply no extra performance to be > had just by playing with the cflags and recompiling glibc? Just ask yourself: How many months per year does your cpu execute code from glibc instead of kernel or app code? If you

Donation: PowerBook G3 Pismo

2015-06-16 Thread Olaf Hering
I have a spare PowerBook G3 Pismo to donate. If anyone wants to receive it for free, contact me offlist. (Also this delivery is for free!) Thanks. Specs: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g3/specs/powerbook_g3_400_fw.html 14.1 TFT / 400 MHz / 192MB / 40GB / 8MB Video / CD / 2x

Donation: PowerBook G3 Wallstreet

2015-06-08 Thread Olaf Hering
I have a spare OldWorld PowerBook G3 to donate. If anyone wants to receive it for free, contact me offlist. Thanks. Specs: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g3/specs/powerbook_g3_233.html Family number: M4753 Macintosh PowerBook G3 Series 14.1 TFT / 233MHz-512K / 192MB / 40GB / 4MB

Donation: EFIKA board

2015-06-08 Thread Olaf Hering
I have a spare EFIKA board to donate. If anyone wants to receive it for free, contact me offlist. Thanks. Specs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efika http://genesi.company/products/efika/5200b No power supply No graphics card serial cable 56K USB to serial converter (if I find it in time) Olaf

Re: Booting kernel on IBM RS/6000 7043 model140

2010-07-06 Thread Olaf Hering
On Tue, Jul 06, Szigetvári János wrote: Total memory = 768MB; using 2048kB for hash table (at c040) Linux version 2.6.18-6-prep (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18) (da...@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.18PReP architecture time_init: decrementer frequency =

Hardware Donation

2010-02-18 Thread Olaf Hering
Hello, there are 4 systems waiting for a new owner. They are located in Nuremberg, Germany. CHRP: IBM RS6000 B50 7046-B50, cpu 604, 1GB RAM, 2x 9GB disks PReP: IBM RS6000 43P 7248-132, cpu 604, 32M RAM, 1x 9GB disk PReP: Motorola MTX, cpu 604, 128M RAM, 2x 9GB disks PReP: Motorola PowerStack,

Re: xkb-data with support for Mac keyboards into unstable

2006-09-27 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Sep 27, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Colin: Is there anything already decided in how the future keyboard layouts on xkb-data, for Apple machines, will look like: PC-style, or Apple style, or options for both of them? macintosh means and does MacOS mapping. I made it that way back in 2000.

Re: 2.6.16-rc2 powerpc timestamp skew

2006-02-15 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Feb 15, Paul Mackeras wrote: Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: Ok, does not using NTP fixes it ? Try this patch. With this the values from gettimeofday() or the VDSO should stay exactly in sync with xtime even if NTP is adjusting the clock. This patch still has quite a few

Re: 2.6.16-rc2 powerpc timestamp skew

2006-02-13 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sun, Feb 12, Olaf Hering wrote: On Sun, Feb 12, Roger Leigh wrote: In both these cases, the chrony NTP daemon is running, if that might be a problem. I dont run Debian, but: My G4/466 has the hwclock at 1970 for some reason. The early bootscripts call klogd, which calls

Re: 2.6.16-rc2 powerpc timestamp skew

2006-02-13 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Feb 13, Olaf Hering wrote: On Sun, Feb 12, Olaf Hering wrote: On Sun, Feb 12, Roger Leigh wrote: In both these cases, the chrony NTP daemon is running, if that might be a problem. I dont run Debian, but: My G4/466 has the hwclock at 1970 for some reason

Re: 2.6.16-rc2 powerpc timestamp skew

2006-02-12 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sun, Feb 12, Roger Leigh wrote: In both these cases, the chrony NTP daemon is running, if that might be a problem. I dont run Debian, but: My G4/466 has the hwclock at 1970 for some reason. The early bootscripts call klogd, which calls nanosleep. This syscall takes 3 hours to complete. A

Re: debian boot CDs G5

2004-04-24 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sat, Apr 24, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 05:02:51PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Hi Sven ! The current CDs won't boot a G5 with the -power4 option. The problem is that the kernel contains legacy drivers (8250 serial, etc...) that are fine for IBM

Re: debian boot CDs G5

2004-04-24 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sat, Apr 24, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 05:02:51PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Hi Sven ! The current CDs won't boot a G5 with the -power4 option. The problem is that the kernel contains legacy drivers (8250 serial, etc...) that are fine for IBM

Re: IBM RS/6000 B50 problems

2003-12-08 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Dec 08, Thorsten Sauter wrote: But I can play with the cdrom a little bit. just put the zImage.*chrk-rs6k on an ordinary iso and do a boot cdrom:filename mykerneloptions no need for yaboot. -- USB is for mice, FireWire is for men! sUse lINUX ag, nRNBERG

Re: macintosh keyboard patches (was: swiss german keyboard config needed (xev results))

2003-09-14 Thread Olaf Hering
On Tue, Aug 26, Frank Murphy wrote: On Monday 25 August 2003 8:59, Olaf Hering wrote: The non us and de maps need review, but should almost match what MacOS does. So I looked at the extensive diffs you sent, and I have a couple of questions. The first is about the changes you made

Re: swiss german keyboard config needed (xev results)

2003-08-25 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Aug 25, Michel Dnzer wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 11:06, Frank Murphy wrote: --- rules/xfree86.dpkg-dist 2003-02-26 09:39:56.0 +0100 +++ rules/xfree86 2003-08-24 11:54:28.0 +0200 @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ pc105nodeadkeys =

Re: Patch for IBM PRePs

2002-07-10 Thread Olaf Hering
begin On Tue, Jul 09, Tom Rini wrote: On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 03:26:37PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: But it seems zImage.initrd.prep is broken since at least 2.4.16: Well, with 2.4.19-rc1 (from linuxppc_2_4, common_config + the initrd from http://penguinppc.org/~olaf/2.4.16

Re: Patch for IBM PRePs

2002-07-09 Thread Olaf Hering
begin On Wed, Jul 03, Tom Rini wrote: On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 09:02:32PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: On Mon, Jul 01, Tom Rini wrote: Lemme know if you still have the correct ammount of memory reported still. Thanks. ocan you provide a new patch for _devel? I used that one

Re: LVM oops in 2.4.19-rc1

2002-07-02 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sun, Jun 30, Marco d'Itri wrote: NIP; c0110e7c lvm_blk_open+44/f4 = GPR1; dcae9d00 _end+1c857584/20db4884 GPR2; dcae8000 _end+1c855884/20db4884 GPR3; ddf66bc0 _end+1dcd/20db4884 GPR4; dcae9d28 _end+1c8575ac/20db4884 GPR5; dcae9d28 _end+1c8575ac/20db4884 GPR6; dcae9e00

Re: iBook2: Screen litter again

2001-11-27 Thread Olaf Hering
On Tue, Nov 27, Mats Aigner wrote: If I could put the ATY at /dev/fb0 and the OF at /dev/fb1 I could then choose the right framebuffer depending on the circumstances. Is this possible? Or does anyone have any other suggestions? You could run X to workaround this know aty128fb console bug ;)

Re: Bug#116780: util-linux: hwclock shouldn't be run

2001-10-31 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Oct 31, John Goerzen wrote: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As far as I understand it clock from powerpc-utils is obsolete and you can use hwclock on all machines (including PReP machines?). Does that mean you will remove the clock program from powerpc-utils? I'm not so

Re: Linux on RS/6000 E20

2001-10-23 Thread Olaf Hering
On Tue, Oct 23, Benny Siegert wrote: Olaf Hering [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22.10.2001 22.01 Uhr On Fri, Oct 19, Benny Siegert wrote: Okay, now I have got some boot messages, but they do not look very good :-( (see attached file). It seems the linux kernel on the boot disk does not cope

Re: boot problems on g4

2001-08-19 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sat, Aug 18, crisbill wrote: I'm trying to install Debian on a G4 using the current linux and root.bin from Woody (3.07-2001-07-11). I've placed these files on my Mac harddisk, along with yaboot 1.2.3. Booting gets stuck, with these kernel messages:

Re: New: installation on g4

2001-08-13 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sun, Aug 12, Ehtan Benson wrote: netbooting depends on OpenFirmware being sane. that is not true of any OldWorld machine. What problems do you see? Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...

Re: New: installation on g4

2001-08-13 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Aug 13, Ehtan Benson wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 09:36:16AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, Ehtan Benson wrote: netbooting depends on OpenFirmware being sane. that is not true of any OldWorld machine. What problems do you see? with OldWorld OpenFirmware

Re: Using kernel-benh 2.4.6 on an old iBook

2001-08-03 Thread Olaf Hering
On Thu, Aug 02, Leandro Noferini wrote: Ciao a tutti, I would like to use a kernel like the subject of this message compled from sources taken from rsync but I get always anything! :-( Can somebody send me a .config for a machine like mine? Now I am using a: [mleandro: ]$ uname -a

Re: kernel Oops

2001-08-01 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Aug 01, Ivan wrote: Hi all, I got this doing 'rm -rf sys.img'. sys.img was a file of 1400MB in a hfs partition. the file was deleted correctly at the second try. No error removing a 800MB file. Someone ( like benh ) is interested in? ) kernel BUG at

Re: iBook2 memmory amount incorrect

2001-07-31 Thread Olaf Hering
On Tue, Jul 31, John Hughes wrote: Hello all, thought I would drop this here for those that know what to do with it. Just got a 512mb memmory module, installed it, and booted. Well, everything seems to be okexcept that linux only sees 510mb total...when it should be 640mb. If

Re: Linux Keycodes

2001-07-30 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Jul 30, Stefan Haller wrote: this also eliminates the need to maintain separate keymaps for standard keyboards, no more need for a mac version and a i386 version and a sparc version etc etc. Ethan, you keep ignoring the fact that this is only true for US keyboards. We do need

Re: 2.4.6-benh and offb?

2001-07-18 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Jul 18, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Greetings, Is offb working in 2.4.6-benh? I can't get it to work, I get the little bit of BootX text and then it hangs before putting the console up on the fb. This is booting from BootX (or is that broken in 2.4.x?). what is the last line? arch

Re: benh 2.4.6 kernel

2001-07-10 Thread Olaf Hering
On Tue, Jul 10, Adam Lazur wrote: return notifier c0280d8c cpu 0: vector: 300 at pc = c0007894, lr = c0007894, msr = b032, sp = c76d9d90 [c76d9ce0] dar = 358, dsisr = 4000 current = c76d8000, pid = 283, comm = pmud 0:mon can you try to disable altivec in your kernel? c0007820 T

Re: Endless loop

2001-07-09 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Jul 09, Russell Hires wrote: Then, nothing. I still hear it just spinning...I now have two dd processes that I can't kill. :-) Use a different kernel, loop was broken. 2.4.6 should be fine. http://www.penguinppc.org/~benh/ Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not

Re: benh kernel 2.4.6 + gpm

2001-07-09 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Jul 09, Eric Deveaud wrote: I just finished to rsync and compile benh kernel for my pismo(thank's ben for your work) and I notice a problem wille using gpm, with my usb external 3 buttons mouse as I spend a lot of time in console mode, I eavily use gpm. with 2.2.19 everything is OK

Re: libc in Power3 [Was: Re: reiserfs empirical ...]

2001-06-07 Thread Olaf Hering
On Thu, Jun 07, Ethan Benson wrote: what about woody's libc? its 2.2.3 right now so if this fix is merged mainline it should be fine, if not please file a bug asking for the patch to be applied to the bts, whenever it comes back. the fix is a hack and called `rm -vf` ppc64 will obsolete

Re: more info on the power3

2001-06-07 Thread Olaf Hering
On Thu, Jun 07, Rahul Jain wrote: 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08) Does that card work? Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...

Re: ISDN-hardware for G4 available?

2001-05-21 Thread Olaf Hering
On Thu, May 17, Georg Koss wrote: If this topic spams the list I apologize - and please mail me private. As the ISDN-cards mentioned in kernels config seem not to be available for a G4, as my dealer told me, I wonder if there is any hardware solution running ISDN with debian/G4. Probably

Re: installing debian on a IBM B50 (chrp)

2001-01-08 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Jan 08, Borut Mrak wrote: The kernel from the current boot-floppies (current = what's in woody) would load, the last message that was printed was something about reading the OpenFirmware tree... I also tried the kernel from

Re: XF86Config-4 on Wallstreet

2001-01-07 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sun, Jan 07, Nick Henderson wrote: Hello, Over the weekend I have been installing unstable on my Wallstreet. Everything works up until I want to start up X 4.0.2. When I startx or when xdm starts, the computer crashes and I have to do a hard reboot. The screen turns black, but I

Re: LinuxPPC and the Apple Display Connector

2000-12-21 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sat, Dec 16, Olaf Hering wrote: On Fri, Dec 15, Jason Haas wrote: Everyone: please let me know of what your experiences with the ADC. It works. 22 patch is coming soon (days) video=aty128fb:vmode:14 video=aty128fb:vmode:22 You can find a kernel with support for the cinema

Re: apmd and other archs

2000-11-24 Thread Olaf Hering
On Thu, Nov 23, Michael Schmitz wrote: The init scripts of all distributions but SuSE handle this just fine (mount -n). At least SuSE seems to mount the root fs rw from the start, which causes all sorts of pain if you want to boot into a RedHat system using the SuSE rescue disk. No idea how

Re: XFree864.01, G4, Ati Rage Pro 128 Apple Studio 17

2000-11-22 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Nov 22, Michel Dänzer wrote: jon ewing wrote: I can get a 1600x1200 console when I first boot my G4 - after starting X I'm no longer able to get back to the console and the only solution is to switch the power off at the mains. I guess thats not normal, right? Use fbset -x to

Re: XFree864.01, G4, Ati Rage Pro 128 Apple Studio 17

2000-11-22 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Nov 22, jon ewing wrote: At 22/11/2000, 11:34, Michel Dänzer wrote: jon ewing wrote: I can get a 1600x1200 console when I first boot my G4 - after starting X I'm no longer able to get back to the console and the only solution is to switch the power off at the mains. I guess

Re: XFree864.01, G4, Ati Rage Pro 128 Apple Studio 17

2000-11-21 Thread Olaf Hering
On Tue, Nov 21, jon ewing wrote: Hello, Just wondered if anyone has got XFree86 4.01 running at 1600x1200 on a G4 with an ATI Rage Pro 128 (the card it was supplied with) and an Apple Studio 17 monitor? If so, how? :-) I didn't try it. But it should work with the correct modeline.

Re: Searching for X11-Keymap german ...

2000-11-20 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Nov 20, Michael Flaig wrote: Hi! I'm searching for a german X11-keymap that works fine on the Powerbook Firewire. Has anybody a @ with default keymap? I don't understand the X11 keymap concept ... Has anybody working keymaps ? or correct config ?

Re: Journaling Filesystems?

2000-11-09 Thread Olaf Hering
On Thu, Nov 09, Tom Rini wrote: [*] SuSE/PPC will be shipping with reiserfs, so they just might be stuck into Tell me more about that :=) Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...

Re: Journaling Filesystems?

2000-11-09 Thread Olaf Hering
On Thu, Nov 09, Tom Rini wrote: I thought you told me that. :) Hmm, can't remember. But it can not work. Some guys have it running, but the tools doesnt work yet. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...

Re: mol build

2000-11-01 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Nov 01, Ethan Benson wrote: you also have to grab libiberty.h from the binutils source package (i think might be wrong package..) for some reason its not present on potato systems at least... Its not needed, at least for the builds until version 0.9.50. I sent a patch to Samuel two

Re: Network Boot Problems

2000-10-30 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sun, Oct 29, Eric Reischer wrote: Anybody seen this before? Yes, try yaboot. That might work, but I gave up finally. There is a short netboot howto on penguinppc.org Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...

Re: Problems with linux Suse 6.4 PPC

2000-10-25 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Oct 25, lorenzo de vito wrote: I have many problems with installation of Suse 6.4 PPC, I have a Mac G3 (BW) with 256 MB Ram, 15 GB HD Maxtor with following partitions: 1) 30 MB /boot 2) 1000 MB / 3) 4000 MB /home 4) 128 MB SWAP 5) 30 MB HFS (Yaboot) 6) residual spaceHFS+ (MacOS)

Re: iMac DV/iBook Firewire install follow-up

2000-10-10 Thread Olaf Hering
On Tue, Oct 10, Hadess wrote: The only error: (II) r128(0): initializing int10 (EE) r128(0): Cannot read V_BIOS (4) I just use video=aty128fb: so the problem must be with the iBook's new Mobility chip. Doesn't work. I don't mind Frame-buffer not being accelerated, but I (would)

Re: Mac SuSE Debian

2000-10-07 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sat, Oct 07, Bernd Kulawik wrote: Does anybody know why it is so horrible to use Linux on that G3 at all or had the same problems and fixed them? If it fails to install rpms its a good sign that you have either broken ram or you run that 2.2.14 kernel with a buggy ide driver. Get a newer

Re: [Q] XFree86 4.0 config for Powerstack?

2000-09-18 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Sep 18, Tom Rini wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 06:16:17PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: The matrox driver OTOH is well accelerated, even on top of the framebuffer device. There may be some endianness etc. bugs though. This is just my current understanding, but w/o patches X4

Re: XFree86 4 phase2v5 available for powerpc

2000-09-14 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Sep 13, Josh Huber wrote: Attached is my log output and XF86Config file. Of note, is the error that gets displayed to the console (which isn't in the log file): FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument I suspect something got broken FB related? Don't specify any Modes line.

Re: German Keyboard and OF boot device?

2000-07-18 Thread Olaf Hering
On Fri, Jul 14, LATBauerdick wrote: However, at the OF prompt (after booting with command option OF) I do not find a way to send the necessary back-slashes! Use the # key. But this doesn't work on some of the early BW G3 machines, if you have such a machine use another usb keyboard or the

bigmem boxes

2000-06-23 Thread Olaf Hering
Hi, is there any oldworld box with 768 MB out there? If yes, can you please test the current 2.2.17pre6 kernel if it boots fine? It doesn't boot on a G4 with 832MB, but with a 1GB B50 machine. A precompiled binary can be found (in the next hours) at

Re: setserial upgrade causes kernel panic on G3 Powerbook

2000-06-13 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Jun 14, Stephen Judd wrote: It seems to be setserial that's the problem, removing this package cured it. Since my Powerbook doesn't have any serial ports, I'm not sure what it was doing there anyway - I don't remember deliberately installing it. rm -f /lib/moduls/`uname

Re: Why yaboot is NOT for oldworld macs, Oldworld owners please read! (was Re: StarMax and yaboot...)

2000-06-07 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Jun 07, Ethan Benson wrote: SuSE wrote an extremely obfuscated shell script to try and figure this out, Cool! And SuSE's a good company that releases things like this as OSS/DFSG compliant, right? Where can I get it and test it on my machine? (Nothing obvioous on

Re: Why yaboot is NOT for oldworld macs, Oldworld owners please read! (was Re: StarMax and yaboot...)

2000-06-07 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Jun 07, Ethan Benson wrote: On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 03:35:17PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: I can't solve that /proc /kern thing, its a topic for l-k. more like a flamewar... ;-) [snip] The support database is nearly empty, for the outside world. I have some entries

Re: Why yaboot is NOT for oldworld macs, Oldworld owners please read! (was Re: StarMax and yaboot...)

2000-06-07 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Jun 07, Ethan Benson wrote: And please: Don't make it unmaintainable with the Apple_Bootstrap type. Appfle_HFS is the correct type. Please don't create problems for yourself, Apple_Bootstrap is the correct type. using an HFS partition will only cause you problems and pain.

Re: XF68 on PowerMac 8600?

2000-03-19 Thread Olaf Hering
On Fri, Mar 17, The Proteus wrote: I've just installed Debian/PPC on my PowerMac 8600, and XF68 is failing to load with the XF68_FBDev server. I haven't tweaked or touched the XF86Config file, and have little or nothing to go on to see if I need to, or if something is totally breaking

Re: Where is libiberty.h? (trying to compile MOL on Debian)

2000-03-05 Thread Olaf Hering
On Tue, Feb 29, Renaud Dreyer wrote: I've been trying to compile mol-0.9.41 on my PowerMac 7300 running Debian Potato but it complains that libiberty.h is missing. In which package can I find this? A search of debian.org or of Usenet yielded no clue. Thanks, It is in the binutils sources,

Re: Problems compiling 2.2.15pre4 kernel

2000-01-25 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Jan 24, Renaud Dreyer wrote: has anyone managed to successfully compile 2.2.15pre4? I get the following error: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -D__powerpc__ -fsigned-char -msoft-float -pipe

Re: Problems compiling 2.2.15pre4 kernel

2000-01-25 Thread Olaf Hering
On Tue, Jan 25, Sven LUTHER wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 11:42:06AM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: But I have another problem: We want (basic) support for APUS in the upcoming release and the current kernel 2.2.15pre4 can not be compiled. ... make[1]: *** [ppc_ksyms.o] Error 1