Re: Debian for PS3? (fwd)

2008-02-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Broadband Engine OSS Development [EMAIL PROTECTED], Takeshi Yaegashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debian for PS3? On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:09:23PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Hi, Hi Geert, will you be at fosdem again this year, we can meet there and discuss ? Although it's

Re: Debian for PS3?

2008-02-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Aurélien G�~IR�~TME wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 04:00:49PM +, Colin Watson wrote: If there's an overriding reason to sync it despite our feature freeze, I'd be happy to review a bug report. Please see http://bugs.debian.org/438479, old snapshots are no longer

Re: Debian for PS3?

2008-02-27 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 04:00:49PM +, Colin Watson wrote: If there's an overriding reason to sync it despite our feature freeze, I'd be happy to review a bug report. Please see http://bugs.debian.org/438479, old snapshots are no longer suitable for newer kernels. Cheers, -- .''`.

Re: Debian for PS3?

2008-02-26 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Bastian Blank wrote: - Generic Cell support packages: o New packages (already packaged by Ubuntu): . ppu-binutils . ppu-g++ . ppu-gcc . ppu-gdb . ppu-gfortran . ppu-gnat What is ppu? PPU = Power(PC) Processing

Re: Debian for PS3?

2008-02-26 Thread Colin Watson
[Hmm, let's use my Ubuntu hat for this mail ...] On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 03:45:28PM +0100, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 01:51:39PM +, Colin Watson wrote: I am interested to know what specifically you think is wrong with Ubuntu's PS3 packaging. Admittedly we were in a

Re: Debian for PS3?

2008-02-26 Thread Geoff Levand
On 02/26/2008 08:00 AM, Colin Watson wrote: [Hmm, let's use my Ubuntu hat for this mail ...] On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 03:45:28PM +0100, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: Last time I check (and I rechecked today at FOSDEM), the package[1] is not in sync with upstream[2], That should be fixed,

Re: Debian for PS3?

2008-02-23 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
Hi, On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:09:23PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Although it's been possible to install Debian on PS3 since a long time (cfr. http://www.keshi.org/moin/PS3/Debian/Live, or you could just use plain debootstrap), there's no official support for PS3 in Debian yet. So I

Re: Debian for PS3?

2008-02-23 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:59:54PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Speaking about Ubuntu vs. Debian: how difficult is it to get packages that are in Ubuntu but not in Debian in Debian? Not very difficult, as long as they match Debian quality requirements. :) Cheers, -- .''`. Aurélien

Re: Debian for PS3?

2008-02-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:50:55AM +0100, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:09:23PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: - PS3 Boot loader support o There's no PS3 bootloader (otheros.bld) in Debian, which means you have to use e.g. the one from the PS3 Linux

Re: Debian for PS3?

2008-02-23 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
Hi, On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 01:51:39PM +, Colin Watson wrote: I am interested to know what specifically you think is wrong with Ubuntu's PS3 packaging. Admittedly we were in a hurry for some of it, but I'm not aware of any major problems. Perhaps you could elaborate. There is no major

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: Debian for PS3?

2008-02-23 Thread Geoff Levand
Hi, On 02/23/2008 08:45 AM, Bastian Blank wrote: 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.

Re: Debian for PS3?

2008-02-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:09:23PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Hi Geert, will you be at fosdem again this year, we can meet there and discuss ? Yes I will. BTW, for those who don't already know, there will be a presentation about Linux on PS3: