Re: Bug#731069: gcc-defaults: Please resume considering to change using unified version of gcc

2013-12-02 Thread Sven Luther
for helping out on the powerpc port, so i could also give a hand on the powerpc toolchain. I don't have a powerpc board handy right now though, and since i am no more DD, i don't know upto what point i can get acces to a developer board (or who to ask). Friendly, Sven Luther On Mon, Dec 02, 2013

Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 04:58:25PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: On 2013-10-14 10:06, Sven Luther wrote: [...] I don't know upto what point you are familiar with my history and its link to the powerpc port, but it pains me to see that the powerpc port is left with so few porters

Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 11:11:56PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: On 2013-10-06 16:25, Sven Luther wrote: Hi Niels, Hey, (Dropping -devel and -ports in exchange for -powerpc; sounded like you weren't subscribed to -powerpc, so direct CC for you as well) Seem fine. I don't know upto

Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-06 Thread Sven Luther
, Sven Luther On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 09:45:35AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: Hi, The final results are in: Summary table: Arch || DDs || NMs/DMs || Other || Total ---++-++-++---++-- armel || 3 || 0 || 1 ||4 armhf

Re: please help investigate potential gcc / kernel ICE on powerpc32 machines in lenny/sid.

2007-08-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:00:29AM +0200, xavier grave wrote: Le mardi 21 août 2007 à 13:28 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 01:25:32PM +0200, xavier grave wrote: Le mardi 21 août 2007 à 11:34 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : Hi, ... I ask for volunteers to help

Re: Recent posts to -powerpc

2007-08-22 Thread Sven Luther
distribution we love and are proud of. Sad that this continues to this day, and that all those debian developers who say they are the only ones that count cannot understand nothing but menaces and censorship, and have no compassion or human decency. Sadly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

please help investigate potential gcc / kernel ICE on powerpc32 machines in lenny/sid.

2007-08-21 Thread Sven Luther
of this mess, despite my continuous good will and appeals at conciliation. Sadly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: please help investigate potential gcc / kernel ICE on powerpc32 machines in lenny/sid.

2007-08-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 01:25:32PM +0200, xavier grave wrote: Le mardi 21 août 2007 à 11:34 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : Hi, ... I ask for volunteers to help investigate the bug Hi, I have a debian unstable 32 bits (dual 1GHz G4) here at work, but no time for tests, I can create

Re: please help investigate potential gcc / kernel ICE on powerpc32 machines in lenny/sid.

2007-08-21 Thread Sven Luther
linux-2.6 apt-get source linux-2.6 cd linux-2.6-2.6.22 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -B and let it run in the background while you do something else. After an hour or two, it will either ICE or not. OK I'll do that right now. Cool, thanks. Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: Sven Luther removed from the debian-kernel project

2007-08-21 Thread Sven Luther
Sven Luther from the kernel project. And whyever that ? Do you have a single reason for this action ? The problems between Sven and the remain of the team did not decrease in Can you tell me what those problems are ? the last months. He decided to ignore a Nack on the Efika-patchset lately

Re: please help investigate potential gcc / kernel ICE on powerpc32 machines in lenny/sid.

2007-08-21 Thread Sven Luther
by those haters who are unable to communicate and have no single clue about solving social problems. This will probably mean no ps3 support and no efika support in debian, even though i am currently doing the work for this support. Sadly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: PReP booting

2007-08-15 Thread Sven Luther
close? not really. We need more information about your setup though to help you more clearly. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PReP booting

2007-08-15 Thread Sven Luther
for that valuable bit of information. One step closer. If you provide the kernel patches or configuration you applied, we could aply them to the debian kernel, and provide a working d-i, which will do all this all by itself. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: PReP booting

2007-08-15 Thread Sven Luther
Bit and all of them are CHRP. Indeed, its a chrp powerpc64, and the -powerpc64 kernels should work on them, as well as the powerpc64 installer flavour. I guess the kernel had a problem in etch on this hardware, did you try it out ? Did you file a bug report ? Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: Installation from USB flash drive failing - libc/relocation error

2007-08-09 Thread Sven Luther
. I suppose that the current d-i are built with an incompatible libc or an mklibs problem. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation from USB flash drive failing - libc/relocation error

2007-08-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 06:12:54PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 12:03:41AM +1000, Nigel O'Brian wrote: I am trying to install from Debian Testing netinst iso on an old Powerbook G4 using the 'hd-media' kernel, initrd and yaboot.conf from http://people.debian.org

Re: S-ATA on RS/6000

2007-08-08 Thread Sven Luther
you can find. Maybe finding a card which is mac compatible will help there, not sure, i will have to investigate and do some testing. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lacking modules/2.6.22-1-powerpc/kernel/drivers/input/serio/i8042.ko

2007-07-30 Thread Sven Luther
this only happened to me? i'd better re-install? You don't need serio/i8042 on an ibook. It will break prep/chrp/pegasos though. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which kernel is good for my Powerbook G3?

2007-07-26 Thread Sven Luther
can go down to 1.3GB or not. Maybe you should just install a base system first, and then install xfce by hand ? Also remember to count some disk space for swap space. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Ban for debian-powerp on Sven Luther lifted.

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 07:57:18AM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 12:57:34AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: We just lifted the ban on Sven Luther on this list. Thanks, Yes, great! :) As you might see in the Archive of d-project the name of Sven is still

The future of the debian/powerpc port ...

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
incapable of actually replacing the work i had done. So i ask for understanding and to accept my apologizes if i have inconvenienced you. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ban for debian-powerp on Sven Luther lifted.

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:05:03AM +, Cord Beermann wrote: Hallo! Du (Sven Luther) hast geschrieben: Given that it was Frans Pop who started all this, that he was the one asking for my expulsion from debian (which debian's leadership agreed to), i have little hope. Already

Re: The future of the debian/powerpc port ...

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 06:49:52PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:05:41AM +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : In both cases, the main point is work force, people interested in contributing, and able to give some of their time for it. Hi Sven, I can test

Re: Ban for debian-powerp on Sven Luther lifted.

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 12:06:57PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selon Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 07:57:18AM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: But... Sven, I think it would be better to let the story rest in peace and to go on and look forward instead

Re: The future of the debian/powerpc port ...

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 06:21:36AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: - i was expulsed from debian on Frans Pop's request a few months ago, when the ban started. [etc, etc, etc] The ban on -powerpc was lifted because of numerous comments

Re: Ban for debian-powerp on Sven Luther lifted.

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 06:23:28AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You are joking, right ? Frans did not leave anything, he still rules unopposed on d-i. [...] Whoah, whoah, whoah, take it somewhere else. This is exactly why the ban was put in place

Re: Ban for debian-powerp on Sven Luther lifted.

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
show that you can also provide positive and constructive comments, and not just political rants, and participate in that other thread. /me is amazed how so many people ask me to not mention the ugly politcal aspects, and engage in political rants themselves. Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: The future of the debian/powerpc port ...

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 06:21:36AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: - i was expulsed from debian on Frans Pop's request a few months ago, when the ban started. [etc, etc, etc] The ban on -powerpc was lifted because of numerous comments

Re: Which kernel is good for my Powerbook G3?

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
or something. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ban for debian-powerp on Sven Luther lifted.

2007-07-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 10:43:01PM +, Cord Beermann wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Debian - Listmaster X-message-Flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri, but it can do mail too. Hi. We just lifted the ban on Sven Luther on this list. Thanks, Comments: The Ban on d

Re: Builds disturbed by the usage of a 64bit kernel.

2007-05-30 Thread Sven Luther
. You need an emulator for that. Powerpc is perfectly able to run 32 bit code. The problem is probably coming from the debian tools whose biarch support was designed for amd64. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Powerbook5,7 (G4 17) and USB 2.0 disk drive

2007-05-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 08:54:46PM +0200, Mich Lanners wrote: Hi all, On 24 May, this message from Sven Luther echoed through cyberspace: On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 01:16:24AM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Thu, May 24 2007, at 00:27 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: I have lots

Re: Different Apple machines, different USB behavior [ was: Re:

2007-05-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 07:17:44PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Powerbook5,7 [ ... ] Reply-To: In-Reply-To: X-Spoken-Languages: en, de X-URL: http://www.wolfgangpfeiffer.com Hi Sven, Hi All On Thu, May 24 2007, at 07:27 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 01:16:24AM

Re: Powerpc netinst CD when selected install64 installs only powerpc not powerpc64 kernel image!

2007-05-24 Thread Sven Luther
preocuped with their witch-hunt, this kind of problems would not be happening. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Powerbook5,7 (G4 17) and USB 2.0 disk drive

2007-05-23 Thread Sven Luther
, and probably your intel board does this. This is what makes the firewire solution so much superior to the usb one, since it can usually provide upto around 18W if i remember well. Just get yourself an enclosure which provide both USB and firewire, and use the firewire one on your mac. Friendly, Sven

Re: Powerbook5,7 (G4 17) and USB 2.0 disk drive

2007-05-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 05:04:43PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 23 May 2007 22:50:45 +0200 Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The USB specs mention 0.5 A at 5V, so around 2.5W. This is not enough to drive a harddisk, especially

Re: Powerbook5,7 (G4 17) and USB 2.0 disk drive

2007-05-23 Thread Sven Luther
*CANNOT* work. And yes: the digikam and the cellphone can be connected/mounted to this alubook ... :) Because they are less power hungry. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Builds disturbed by the usage of a 64bit kernel.

2007-05-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 04:46:04PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Fri, May 18, 2007 at 07:37:07AM +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : Do you know what exactly is causing this problem ? Or could you list the 140 packages which you already detected to be problematic ? Hi Sven, Out

Re: Grub2: How safe is it?

2007-05-17 Thread Sven Luther
it. Is there anyone who tried it instead of yaboot? Is it safe to install? Are there any particular precautions, other than read the docs that come with the package? It used to work two years ago when i tried it on my pegasos, not sure how it has evolved since then. Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: Grub2: How safe is it?

2007-05-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:53:06AM +, Jack Malmostoso wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007 11:00:09 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Just make sure you have a debian-installer media ready before you do the try. Downloaded, just in case. Anyway the package grub-of does not install because of /usr

Re: Builds disturbed by the usage of a 64bit kernel.

2007-05-17 Thread Sven Luther
pure-64 effort. I wonder if this effort helps in this case, or causes problems. Do you know what exactly is causing this problem ? Or could you list the 140 packages which you already detected to be problematic ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Building the powerpc archive on a machine having ppc64 in its uname output.

2007-05-12 Thread Sven Luther
accordingly. Good luck to Voltaire in his trip. Le Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:45:59AM +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 06:34:31PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: But I have another concern. In my experience, some debian source packages do not build on G5 running the Debian

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 08:31:22AM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote: Sven Luther wrote: The DSA team does not add random machines. There is no ppc64 port, there is no need for ppc64 machines, there are powerpc build daemons and there's a powerpc porter machine which is not overloaded. Thus

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 09:27:01AM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote: Sven Luther wrote: But basically, you are telling me that i should take my server, and fork debian. Well, i guess given how i have been handled lately, i am seriously considering this. The debian infrastructure guys probably need

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-11 Thread Sven Luther
in this thread. Mmm, i may be wrong, but the subject still is : Subject: Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:30:55AM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote: Sven Luther wrote: Ok, where is the debian powerpc64 machine, which is needed for the multiarch powerpc port ? Where is the official multiarch powerpc port that needs a Debian powerpc64 machine? Well

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:02:26AM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote: Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:30:55AM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote: Sven Luther wrote: Ok, where is the debian powerpc64 machine, which is needed for the multiarch powerpc port ? Where

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-11 Thread Sven Luther
me ! As said, ubuntu does this regularly since years. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 08:25:18PM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote: Sven Luther wrote: But the DSA team have refused to even consider those augsbourg machines, probably because they where overloaded, and unwilling to share the work, a bit like it is happening with the arm or sparc ports, where

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-09 Thread Sven Luther
be used as a buildd, but i have been suspended, and seen as the devil incarnate by those in power, so ... Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:19:26PM +0800, William Xu wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:18:01PM +0800, William Xu wrote: Hi, In order to get airport extreme working, i just built linux-2.6.18.4. Its .config is mainly based on 2.6.15.5(current

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-26 Thread Sven Luther
symlink or something ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OFF-TOPIC: debian-powerpc or debian-boot for d-i issues [was:

2007-04-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 12:35:58PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Hi All On Fri, Apr 20 2007, at 22:46 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:42:00PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Hi All On Thu, Apr 19 2007, at 23:08 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Apr 19

Re: debian-powerpc or debian-boot for d-i issues [ was Re: Install 4.0 r0 Etch on IBM p5 510 inside LPAR ]

2007-04-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 11:22:27AM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Fri, Apr 20 2007, at 23:04 +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:42:00PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Thu, Apr 19 2007, at 23:08 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Well, let's step into reality here

Re: OFF-TOPIC: debian-powerpc or debian-boot for d-i issues [was:

2007-04-21 Thread Sven Luther
to discuss it once again. so why was this started again when i just pointed out the right way to handle bug reports ? And you are wrong, the witch-hunt against me is very much related about the current status of debian/powerpc, or do you see someone else doing the work i used to do ? Friendly, Sven

Re: Install 4.0 r0 Etch on IBM p5 510 inside LPAR

2007-04-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:42:00PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Hi All On Thu, Apr 19 2007, at 23:08 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:40:51PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Thu, Apr 19 2007, at 15:05 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:03

Re: Install 4.0 r0 Etch on IBM p5 510 inside LPAR

2007-04-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:03:22PM +0200, Gottfried Scheckenbach wrote: Hello to all, This is the wrong list to handle installer related issues. The right way is to send an installation report to the BTS. or at least cross post to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Install 4.0 r0 Etch on IBM p5 510 inside LPAR

2007-04-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:40:51PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Thu, Apr 19 2007, at 15:05 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:03:22PM +0200, Gottfried Scheckenbach wrote: Hello to all, This is the wrong list to handle installer related issues. Wrong. He tried

Re: Responsiveness issue(s)

2007-04-11 Thread Sven Luther
, and there is some nice instruction manual on apple's web site. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Responsiveness issue(s)

2007-04-11 Thread Sven Luther
the main memory. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unable to boot Motorola Powerstack II

2007-01-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:14:09AM +0100, Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister wrote: Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 20:49 schrieb Sven Luther: you somehow don't get prep-installer, please fill a bug report. I'm considering that, but first I want to make sure that the major problem is not my lack

Re: unable to boot Motorola Powerstack II

2007-01-02 Thread Sven Luther
. Nope, it is just that you need to boot from a PReP partition. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

retiring from debian until end of february ...

2007-01-02 Thread Sven Luther
, so others will see it to, and maybe feel ashamed about their handling of this problem. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: retiring from debian until end of february ...

2007-01-02 Thread Sven Luther
were not able to find a replacement for me, despite strong words of people like Holger. No more mails now, but i wanted to clarify that me being silent for 2 months on the lists doesn't necessarily mean i will not continue working on the powerpc port. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: unable to boot Motorola Powerstack II

2007-01-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:59:18PM +0100, Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister wrote: Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 09:56 schrieb Sven Luther: Last post here except one, due to my self-imposed ban asked by Fabio's mediation attempt. Let's hope this will be sorted out in a way that's acceptable to all

Re: Who is actively porting the Debian architectures?

2006-12-30 Thread Sven Luther
today, and most issues have been solved long ago. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB blocked under 2.6.18

2006-12-30 Thread Sven Luther
? And also provide output of dmesg and the content of /var/log/syslog ? Preferably the last lines after inserting an usb device. This may be related to udev breakage i have been seeing recently. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Who is actively porting the Debian architectures?

2006-12-27 Thread Sven Luther
Wirt Sven Luther Michel Daenzer Colin Watson Mark Brown Holger Levsen Given the rumors powerpc would be dead, I suggest to name them all :) Hi all, I would like to recommend that only persons who do volunteer to be reactive would be listed here. I had some difficulties

Re: ports, big and small, two questions

2006-12-27 Thread Sven Luther
to support previous ppc apple. They are selling non-ppc apple though. Anyway, the problem is availability of hardware, and the fact that etch is now kind-of frozen, and it will be hard to include the playstation III kernel patches into it, or the cell-targetting toolchain for that matter. Friendly, Sven

Re: ports, big and small, two questions

2006-12-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 10:34:29AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: On Dec 27, 2006, at 3:47 AM, Sven Luther wrote: Terrasoft {YellowDog Linux} They are selling non-ppc apple though. Don't you mean non-Apple ppc? I don't recall seeing any non-ppc machines on their web-store. Nope

Re: unable to boot Motorola Powerstack II

2006-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
install method is not supported though, but the netboot install is needed. You need to download the other-image/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-prep.initrd, put it on your tftp server and netboot it with : boot enet:server-ip,vmlinuz-prep.initrd,client-ip Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: create Apple_bootstrap and Apple_partition_map partitions with sfdisk ?

2006-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
of parttions on apple new world machines ? Please use parted or any libparted based frontend (qtparted, gparted, gnu-fdisk, d-i's partman). Most distros use such a solution. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 07:05:46AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: Hi Sven, On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:16 AM, Sven Luther wrote: What is really needed is for confirmation with the current kernels that : 1) miboot booting works (or not). 2) bootx booting works (or not). 3) quik

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-19 Thread Sven Luther
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Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
you backport the little change from the sid branch, this should fix it. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 11:21:53PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Friday 15 December 2006 21:37, Sven Luther wrote: Notice that the 2.6 sarge d-i image had a bug which was later fixed in the etch/sid version. It has to do with calling mkvmlinuz i think, instead of simply gzipping

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 11:21:53PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Friday 15 December 2006 21:37, Sven Luther wrote: Notice that the 2.6 sarge d-i image had a bug which was later fixed in the etch/sid version. It has to do with calling mkvmlinuz i think, instead of simply gzipping

Re: IBM js20 etch amdk111 ide bus

2006-12-13 Thread Sven Luther
? Is it included in the 2.6.18 kernels currently present in debian/sid and debian/etch ? If not, this is probably an error. Can you provide me with the CONFIG option to set, and i will enable it in the next build of the kernel packages, which will add official support for this. Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: Newest powerpc install disks not booting

2006-12-12 Thread Sven Luther
it is best to cross post these questions to debian-powerpc debian-boot. Wouter, Frans and Holger are those more involved in those matters, and thus make sure they get involved. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Happy success with LVM and RAID

2006-12-03 Thread Sven Luther
for EXT3 ourselves, since it is the only filesystemm which can be grown online and shrinked offline, and reiserfs is not really a solution. JFS/XFS can be grown online, but not shrinked, so they are problematic. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

[powerpc] Apple G5 windfram based fan control modules not included or loaded in initramfs-tools generated ramdisks.

2006-12-02 Thread Sven Luther
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Re: g5 imacs now silent?

2006-12-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 10:52:13AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Thursday 30 November 2006 18:06, Sven Luther wrote: [#397942] If this is correct, this bug can be closed. Is it correct? The bug should be retitled and reassigned to initramfs-tools, if it is not already. It only

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
about this issue to the message of frans asking for info for the erratas, i don't know if in the end it was added or not, i know frans decided to remove some of my errata entries. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
graphical d-i will not be officially included in etch d-i for etch. Maybe you could give a hand with those issues ? Or those others you mentioned ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 12:17:07PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Sunday 26 November 2006 15:09, Sven Luther wrote: currently shiping powerpc hardware are : IBM pseries : not really supported, patch sitting without comment since months, early work lost because of svn commit

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
haven't done this for some time now, and it may be fixed. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 04:16:42PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Thursday 30 November 2006 15:30, Sven Luther wrote: #394970: finish-install: [powerpc64] Add support for IBM serial I didn't, because [1, 2 3 - basically no time] And then you complain, that other people don't

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
notice that i did mention that fact in the reply to frans call for review on the RC1 erratas, right ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: g5 imacs now silent?

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
: [powerpci/mac] partman-md appears to not write back the raid flag to partitions. Maybe it would be worth to raise the severity of this bug, but i can hardly do this, or i will be seen as whiner who ups the severity of his pet bugs, can i ask you to have a look at them ? Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 01:53:01PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 05:48:55PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 11:03:41AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: Hi fellow debian-powerpc users, Once more, some influent folk in the debian-boot team, who didn't

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-27 Thread Sven Luther
attention. A rising number of bug reports stating 'broken in d-i but works fine with Sven's build' could convince those of more rational leaning. Yep, but i would need to fork the archive too. Upto now, i have avoided doing that, for obvious reasons. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-27 Thread Sven Luther
to not write back the raid flag to partitions. Open since 16 days, and not a single comment on it. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PowerMac G4 : how to enable the server mode ?

2006-11-27 Thread Sven Luther
? On the XServe it is : echo server_mode=1 /proc/pmu/options but needs to be redone on every reboot. (Thanks to benh for giving me this info in the first place). Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-27 Thread Sven Luther
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Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 10:37:40AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Saturday 25 November 2006 23:08, Sven Luther wrote: Thank you for this, why could you not at least leave me alone ? Because you spread FUD about the debian-powerpc port and claim it's so broken it needs to be removed

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-26 Thread Sven Luther
it is an upstream matter, not a debian maintainer matter. Two different set of skills. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 08:39:26PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: Johannes Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 23:11 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Indeed, but i guess that with etch now soon supporting 2.6.18 kernels, all apple powerpc hardware will be supported. At least

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 09:10:19PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, it's right and wrong. Those modules don't need to be available while booting but be loaded just after init is being run (I might be wrong here) but if I got right there's a problem

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 09:33:19PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes. We could but it would add another package on archive while the fix is a simple change on initramfs itself. I don't think it's a good trade of. Well, the initramfs-tools

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-25 Thread Sven Luther
be. Frans: My honest opinion of it: the biggest load of self-satisfied and self-centered crap I've ever seen FUCK YOU! Friendly, Sven Luther On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 07:42:11PM +, Archive Administrator wrote: reject as requested by debian-boot === If you don't understand why your

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