Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:35:20PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Yeah, apparently it's cheaper to bootstrap a complete new little endian > platform than to fix portability issues in existing software... I believe a big reason is that Nvidia cards expect little endian data, and the overhead

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 8:32 PM, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: > Recent traffic on this list has discussed Debian on PowerPC and > big-endian vs little-endian. > > The next-generation US national laboratory facilities are to be based > on PowerPC, and one source that I read

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-20 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
Recent traffic on this list has discussed Debian on PowerPC and big-endian vs little-endian. The next-generation US national laboratory facilities are to be based on PowerPC, and one source that I read mentioned little-endian, likely for binary file compatibility with files produced on Intel x86

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-20 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-06-20 10:29, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 06/20/2016 04:15 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 04:11:32PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Well, we just did a full archive rebuild of "ppc64" to be able to support ppc64 on the e5500 cores by disabling

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 06/20/2016 04:15 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 04:11:32PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Well, we just did a full archive rebuild of "ppc64" to be able to >> support ppc64 on the e5500 cores by disabling AltiVec, didn't we? > > Well it is getting there. The

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 04:11:32PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Well, we just did a full archive rebuild of "ppc64" to be able to > support ppc64 on the e5500 cores by disabling AltiVec, didn't we? Well it is getting there. -- Len Sorensen

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 06/20/2016 04:05 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Also I suspect many users of 64 bit capable freescale chips > (e5500 and e6500 cores) are running 32 bit powerpc since they > don't have enough ram to actually really gain anything > from going to 64 bit, and the ppc64 port isn't done yet. Well,

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 08:35:02PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > Do they implement the ISA required by the existing Debian port? Yes. The only ones that don't are the Freescale 85xx and P10[12]x chips, which are powerpcspe due to using the e500 core. All the 83xx and 82xx chips which are still

Re: Radeon driver not works on PPC with X800

2016-06-20 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 1:15 AM, TCH wrote: > Hi! > > I have an old G4 MDD, with an X800 card. I've just installed Debian Jessie > and tried to breathe life into the 2d acceleration, but without success. If > i install "firmware-linux-nonfree", then it loads the

Re: Debian "Jessie" on Apple eMac 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 (7447A) with ATI Radeon 9200 gives "Black Screen of Death"

2016-06-20 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi Francesco, On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 9:30 AM, aggaz wrote: > Dear list, > > I have an Apple eMac 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 (7447A) with ATI Radeon 9200. > > For several years I used Debian "Wheezy" on it without issues. > > Some day ago I upgraded to "Jessie" and graphics stopped