Re: png problems on powerpc and s390 (was: Bug#322821: libpng12-0: new version breaks pdflatex)

2005-09-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 08:58:01AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: Being from EBCDIC land, s390 probably also has an unsigned char by default. (dang this is dumb - all Linux ports should use the same default) arm also uses unsigned char by default. I have had to fix a few things because of that

Re: Request assistance with monotone package on alpha, hppa, mipsel, powerpc, s390

2007-09-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 06:59:28PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: I'm one of the maintainers of the Debian package of monotone; I'm also one of its upstream developers. For the new 0.36-1 package presently in unstable, we decided to run the program's testsuite during the build. This found

Re: No kernel modules were found PowerPC Businesscard and Netinstdaily CDs

2011-07-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:10:02AM +0200, Jeroen Diederen wrote: Is anyone reading the powerpc list? I sent a question about pmu_battery a while ago, I had no response. I don't think the IBM p520 I work with has any battery. :) I know the RX5000 and RX1500 certainly don't which are the

Re: Debian 6 PPC 64bit on IBM Power7 - how to multipathing ?

2011-08-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 03:18:51PM +0200, Schneck Dennis CIS SDE wrote: is there a way to get multipath working with Debian 6 ? md multipath works. I don't remember if the installer does that or not. If I define on both VIOS a VSCSI Device for the harddisk I see 2 hardisks /dev/sda and

Re: newest linux-image-3.0.0-1 doesn't recognize HD

2011-08-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:04:18AM -0300, Gunther Furtado wrote: With the latest update, kernel doesn't recognize my HD (neither uuid nor /dev/hdaX). When I boot into it, I get to an initramfs shell and when I run ls /dev/ there isn't anything that I could perceive as hd. I've read on the

Re: Build failure on specific PPC systems

2011-08-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 07:30:07PM -0400, James Vega wrote: Since at least 4.2.4, Racket has been failing to build[0][1] for Debian on G5-based PowerPC systems[2][3]. At the time, the only other PowerPC system that was available within Debian to debug on was a G4-based system[4]. On that

Re: Build failure on specific PPC systems

2011-08-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:58:04PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 07:30:07PM -0400, James Vega wrote: Since at least 4.2.4, Racket has been failing to build[0][1] for Debian on G5-based PowerPC systems[2][3]. At the time, the only other PowerPC system

Re: [racket-dev] Build failure on specific PPC systems

2011-08-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 09:34:30AM -0600, Matthew Flatt wrote: Right --- the Racket JIT definitely does not support PPC in 64-bit mode. The Racket PPC JIT is enabled on Linux when `powerpc' is #defined at build time. Is `powerpc' #defined for the 64-bit build, perhaps in addition to

Re: Bug#638250: Needs to be adapted for libav/0.7

2011-09-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 08:47:59AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: I strongly disagree that this arch specific defect on ppc is in any way a blocking bug for recompiling moc-ffmpeg-plugin against the new libav libraries. It only affects (some?) altivec enabled machines and can be easily

Re: Bug#638250: Needs to be adapted for libav/0.7

2011-09-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 04:13:52PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: Are there any that don't experience it? I just tried running ffmpeg on a power6+ machine under gdb and got: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x0f6ff37c in ff_fft_calc_altivec () at /root/libav-0.7.1

Re: Can an iMac G5 be useful for the project?

2011-09-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 05:07:53PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: I held this conversation with David Bremner, who suggested me to bring the topic here in the list. Please comment if you find this machine useful in any way: I have a spare G5 machine which I'd gladly donate to the project - A

Re: SuperDrive Door?

2011-10-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 02:43:47PM -0700, David Lowe wrote: Okeh, i got Squeeze running on my PowerMac G5. My next stumbling block is optical discs. Specifically, when i go to install some package that is on the original DVD [say, 'build-essential'] Synaptic tells me to insert the

Re: Yaboot install problem - IBM 911-285

2012-01-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 03:24:09PM +0100, Benedikt Wegmann wrote: a while ago I succeeded in installing Debian 6.0.3 (ppc64) on an IBM Power740 via the netinstall image. During the setup process it was necessary to update the yaboot bootloader and manually change its configuration. Once

Re: Yaboot install problem - IBM 911-285

2012-01-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 01:58:41PM +, Mark Benson wrote: I have a new IBM IntelliStation 285 (9111-285) and am trying to install. Using the latest Debian 6.0.3 DVD or netinstall images. I can setup and install Debian just fine, but when I hit the yaboot install stage it fails and

Re: GXT6500P

2012-01-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 07:50:58PM +, Mark Benson wrote: Another simple question. Is Linux (Debian or otherwise) compatible with the GXT6500P graphics card? I have one that I have tested as working in AIX 5L on the 9111-285 and it appears to be 100% working. Booting any Linux distro

Re: Video Card Help - IBM POWER5

2012-01-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:39:51PM +, Mark Benson wrote: I finally got a bootable Debian 6.0.3 system. It's a good start! I now find myself stuck in another hole. Xorg doesn't like either my GXT6500P or my GXT135P graphics boards. It doesn't seem to have a driver for either. I am

Re: Video Card Help - IBM POWER5

2012-01-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:58:02PM +, Mark Benson wrote: On 23 Jan 2012, at 22:18, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:39:51PM +, Mark Benson wrote: I finally got a bootable Debian 6.0.3 system. It's a good start! I now find myself stuck in another hole

Re: graphics card for PowerPC G5 and debian-6.0.3-ppc

2012-02-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 08:06:26PM +0100, szukw...@arcor.de wrote: I have debian-6.0.3-ppc installed on a PowerMac G5. The graphics card used is a ATI Radeon 9600 AP (AGP) with one backward key(1.5V key). The board has one AGP slot; and 3 PCI slots (length ~125 mm). 1. Is it possible to

Re: graphics card for PowerPC G5 and debian-6.0.3-ppc

2012-02-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 09:58:40AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: For Radeons, that's only true for older cards without ATOM BIOS, basically anything older than Radeon X1xxx. So this shouldn't be a problem for a Radeon HD 5450, but there might be other issues, e.g. the drivers in the stable

Re: graphics card for PowerPC G5 and debian-6.0.3-ppc

2012-02-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 05:09:14PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: He was asking about a PCI card. PCI and AGP. But not PCIe. Not too many options for PCI and AGP anymore. You're right, although with KMS, console will work as soon as the radeon kernel module is loaded (which can happen very

Re: graphics card for PowerPC G5 and debian-6.0.3-ppc

2012-02-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 09:12:33PM +0100, Stephane Louise wrote: I tried DVI and HDMI connectors. The only new dmesg that I have is: [drm:radeon_dvi_detect] *ERROR* HDMI-A-1: probed a monitor but no|invalid EDID That's the only time when you can actually see something wrong in dmesg (it

Re: Help to test libsdl1.2 bug #361826 on powerpc?

2012-02-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:23:48PM +, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: (Not subscribed to debian-powerpc@, please CC to me/the bug report as appropriate). Can somebody please help to check if this bug from SDL libraries is still present on powerpc? I don't have access to any powerpc

Re: Help to test libsdl1.2 bug #361826 on powerpc?

2012-02-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:26:57PM +, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: Thank you so much for the quick help! 1.2.15 is fine, I wanted to confirm if this old bug was still present or fixed. I don't have interest in testing other versions of SDL in principle. BTW, maybe you can

Re: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-03-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:12:18AM -0700, John Wesley Cooper wrote: One of the first things I tried was the little Press C at the chime trick … at which point the drive repeatedly tried to read the disk for a minute or so, then booted into Mac OS with no other visible or audible output. I

Re: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-03-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:52:34AM -0700, John Wesley Cooper wrote: I do believe I specified in my initial message that I burnt it to a CD-R … so that can't be the issue. I forgot what the initial message had said. I would be surprised if it wasn't able to read CD-Rs in general (although my

Re: Howto for md(raid 1) on PPC ?

2012-04-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:07:05PM +0100, Raf Czlonka wrote: Any mdadm one should apply. Your /boot might need to be outside of RAID though. AFAIK yaboot doesn't support booting of md RAID and I haven't tried GRUB on PPC. Grub works fine on raid, although you will need a git checkout, not the

Re: Howto for md(raid 1) on PPC ?

2012-04-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 05:19:34PM +0200, Niels S. Eliasen wrote: Dó you have a cookbook for getting grub2 working(with the raid of course) ? Well I can tell you what my setup is. I am using an IBM p710 (and I also have a p520 with a very similar setup although currently using a somewhat

Re: Howto for md(raid 1) on PPC ?

2012-04-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 12:18:50PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: Well I can tell you what my setup is. I am using an IBM p710 (and I also have a p520 with a very similar setup although currently using a somewhat patched and manually installed via dd and other hacks that you wouldn't want

Re: powerpc qualification for Wheezy

2012-05-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:42:32PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: I am still a regular powerpc user, and I should have sufficient time to assist with porting issues for the foreseeable future, which I haven't done for the last couple of releases but will now be able to. So feel free to put me down

Re: wine considered not-for-us on powerpc

2012-06-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 11:28:20AM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: Interesting question, as windows did once upon-a-time run on powerpc (wikipedia says so, so it must be true http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#32-bit_platforms) Does someone need to run notepad for powerpc on linux though?

Re: Bug#680096: ATLAS on PowerPC

2012-07-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 09:39:37PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote: But still POWER3 is supported by the 32-bit powerpc port: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch02s01.html.en#id522279 Debian powerpc is 32bit, but with 64bit kernel available. Debian 64bit powerpc is a new

Re: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg

2012-08-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:06:09AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Hi Michael, First: try sending this to the debian-powerpc list. You may get more answers there... Second: I have a couple of G4 tower machines that work just fine, but unfortunately I don't have any powerbooks to try, so I

Re: PowerPC Debian install on IBM 43P boot problems...

2012-08-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 01:15:36PM -0400, Bruno Gallichand wrote: I`m trying to revive an old IBM 43P for a customer into using it with Debian 3.0 (that`s the only version I was able to get bootable floppy images). After the successful partionning and installation of the base OS, during

Re: PowerPCSPE port status

2012-09-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:18:14PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: I am getting mails from time to time how can I help with the port I need new packages or something like that but after I tell what there is to do I don't hear anything anymore. P2020 is still used in new designs and I

Re: How to upgrade 6 - 7

2012-09-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 07:25:27PM -0400, Logan Brown wrote: I would never recommend attempting a dist upgrade to unstable. I've tried it twice in the past, and both times led to reinstalling the from scratch. Dependencies get mixed up, and you're left with a highly unstable bastardized

Re: PowerPCSPE port status

2012-09-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:00:17PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: 8572 and P2020 are dual cores / SMP. They _are_ fast and support more than 4GiB of memory. They play in the performance league. MPC512x are the slow ones. I built the port on _one_ 8536 and the buildd was mostly wating

Re: Any hope for Skype on an iMac G4 with Squeeze?

2012-10-09 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 12:45:15PM -0800, Terrence van Ettinger wrote: Hello, Is there any way to get some form of Skype to run on Debian Squeeze? I have an iMac G4 from about 66 years ago that's a hand-me-down, and I really need access to Skype on it. No hope. Skype doesn't do powerpc

Re: Open Firmware and External 2TB HDD

2012-10-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:47:49AM -0700, b...@riseup.net wrote: Hello there, I have been struggling to boot Debian-PPC from a new 2TB Baracuda HDD with a Seagate GoFlex controller... FOR DAYS! I am using a Powerbook G4 with OSX 10.3.4 The details: When I boot off a Live Ubuntu CD I

Re: mdadm raid from debian 64 bit .. error on powerpc ?

2012-11-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 07:21:36PM +0100, Niels S. Eliasen wrote: I do have a problem that I hope someone can help me with My old PC(Celeron chip) gave up just the other day.. and I have been struggling ever since to get the the mdadm (raid 1) mounted on my Debian linux...(both systems

Re: mdadm raid from debian 64 bit .. error on powerpc ?

2012-11-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 07:40:16PM +0100, Niels Schjøtt Eliasen wrote: Hi Len And .. is it possible to upgrade the superblock ? (I fear the mdadm raid was created a couple of years back (in a Lenny installation)) According to

Re: good sata card for pci-x powermac?

2013-01-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 03:26:04PM -0500, Brian Szymanski wrote: This makes me wonder... Since I'm using mdadm, I should be able to use any voltage-compatible card, provided that I first plug the card in on a PC and configure it for straight-thru non-RAID access to all drives, right? I'd never

Re: About VMX/Altivec support in Debian ppc64 port

2013-02-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:07:09AM +0800, Liang Guo wrote: I'm working to run Debian ppc64 ports on my xbox360 box, but failed to setup a chrooted environment with Illegal instruction error. After some dig on this problem, I found this is caused by PowerPC vector instrunctions, and according

Re: About VMX/Altivec support in Debian ppc64 port

2013-02-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 09:31:59PM +0900, Hiroyuki Yamamoto wrote: Hi, All. I am a ppc64 porter, Hiroyuki Yamamoto. Because ppc64 port is NOT a official port yet, please DON'T report to official BTS the bugs which have NOT a relation to the packages AT ALL, and which have a relation ONLY

Re: Installation - boot after installation fails

2013-03-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 08:01:08PM +0100, Michael Felt wrote: Hello everyone, I downloaded the debian netinstaller - debian-6.0.7-powerpc-netinst.iso - and installed on a p505. The installation process goes well, but the boot fails. I tried using the LVM with multiple partitions and got

Re: Installation - boot after installation fails

2013-03-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:56:00PM +0100, Michael Felt wrote: 4 to 5 years ago I was only able to get Linux to boot, (Redhat, Novell, Debian) unless it was a physical disk. I have not tried that yet because I do not have an empty disk to supply. And if that worked I would just uninstall it as

Re: Installation - boot after installation fails

2013-03-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 08:29:17AM +0100, Michael Felt wrote: well in this case the newer machine must be the vios version (2.2.2.×) because my hardware is p5 generation. guess i'll just have to wait for the netboot respositories to update. i have waited many moons - what is a few more?

Re: Installation - boot after installation fails

2013-03-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 08:33:34AM +0100, Michael Felt wrote: upgrade? how? i am using netinst.iso to do the install, and what is installed does not boot! will try 2) when i have access. travelling/work keeps me away atm. You could when at the end of the install, instead of finishing the

Re: Installation - boot after installation fails

2013-03-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:38:27PM +0100, Michael Felt wrote: It helps to read the screen -- oh, still no go -- but updated! Need to run the command ybin to update something. I missed that bit of feedback firsttime. For comparison: when AIX boots it lists the device as:

Re: IBM 7025-F50

2013-05-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:11:57PM +0300, Gasha wrote: I can get old IBM 7025-F50 box. Is there any chance to put any recent kernel on to it? I saw only reports to install debian 3.0 / sarge Are there any hidden problems? Looking up the specs, I don't see any obvious reason it shouldn't

Re: IBM 7025-F50

2013-05-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 05:33:06PM +0300, Gasha wrote: I will try some debian installs on it. For some unknown reason, i like unix boxes :) So far i tried debian on HP 720, SUN 10, IBM p710 LPAR. I also have one INDY/MIPS, SUN BLADE 1000 waiting for linux. And nearby is one HP L2000 and one

Re: Upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy on Bubba Two hardware

2013-05-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:56:41PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: I get an answer for my questions on the debian users list: quote Yes, udev in Wheezy requires a kernel = 2.6.32 with the accept4(2) syscall. At least one year ago, the Squeeze kernel did not provide this particular syscall on

Re: PowerPC assembler help

2013-06-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:19:57PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Brad Boyer wrote: Was this input for an assembler or output from a disassembler? If this is from a disassembly of a dynamically relocatable object, it might have gotten confused by an instruction being the target of a

Re: showstopper for debian-7.1.0-powerpc-netinst.iso on POWER5 (p505) and iscsi disk

2013-08-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 03:44:01AM +0800, Michael Felt wrote: Last march I started a thread - that with help - resolved the problem of installing from debian-6.0.7-powerpc-netinst.iso - and installed on a p505. downloading the new yaboot as part of the install (thanks to Lennart Sorensen

Re: apt sources for Debian Sarge

2013-08-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 07:11:18PM -0600, Thomas Carlson wrote: What are the correct apt sources for Debian Sarge these days? The old ones: deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free no longer

Re: apt sources for Debian Sarge

2013-08-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 08:26:39PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 10:46:21AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 07:11:18PM -0600, Thomas Carlson wrote: What are the correct apt sources for Debian Sarge these days? The old ones: deb http

Re: Re: showstopper for debian-7.1.0-powerpc-netinst.iso on POWER5 (p505) and iscsi disk

2013-08-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 06:59:01PM +0800, Michael Felt wrote: Well, I tried the install again. ANd made a small change. The previous attempt was using a logical volume as the data area exported to the partition as hdisk0. I'll repeat that later - as a test. However, when installing to an iscsi

Re: Nvidia on powermac.

2013-08-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 07:39:13AM +0200, Alberto Mi wrote: hello, i have read the forums and some FAQs and i don't have found a way to make my geforce 4 mx on debian. Anyone could point me how to make it? Does the nouveau driver not work on powerpc? I have no idea given I have never tried it.

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
Hi, I am an active porter for the following architectures and I intend to continue this for the lifetime of the jessie release: For powerpc, i386, amd64, armhf, I - test most base packages on this architecture - fix toolchain issues - triage arch-specific bugs - fix arch-related bugs - run a

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:38:29AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: Here is a little status update on the mails we have received so far. First off, thanks to all the porters who have already replied! So far, the *no one* has stepped up to back the following architectures: hurd-i386 ia64

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:19:24AM -0400, Federico Sologuren wrote: i have a HP Visualize B2000 that i managed to install last night from iso distribution that i found after a lot of looking. at this point only terminal is working. will keep reading to get debian up and running. i would like

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 06:08:12PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: I suppose I'm not really one privileged to express these reactions, but I tend to be a loose cannon sometimes. ??? (Checking my calendar. Nope, I haven't suddenly slipped back to the early 1990s.) (Still puzzled.) Well I see

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 08:28:43AM -0700, Gary Driggs wrote: It's somewhat ironic that they're the last big fab server vendor left making PPC gear. Even Freescale seems focused on ARM these days... No, freescale is very much focused on powerpc, they are just doing some arm as well since that

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 09:08:48AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: Ergo, there hasn't been sufficient support for least significant byte first mode to demonstrate that the CPU can actually do it. Makes more sense when I think about it that way. Certainly running Linux this way is pretty new and

Re: AmigaOne X1000/Nemo PowerPC Motherboard

2013-11-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 03:52:31PM +0100, Christian Zigotzky wrote: Just for info: A-EON's Christmas Cracker! : Special offer on Nemo PowerPC Motherboards for the holiday season. To celebrate the latest delivery of Nemo PPC motherboards, A-EON Technology is pleased to announce a special

Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?

2013-11-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 03:07:39AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: Dear people, Motivated by: * the results of the last call to porters * the fact that PowerPC (at least) used to be an architecture where Debian shined * the lack of external support (which means that we should help

Re: My K9 Blackdog

2013-12-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 04:04:45PM -0800, Neko Ecchi wrote: Hi everyone. I'm not sure how active this list is, but I thought I'd give it a try to see if I can get my old K9 Blackdog running. For those who don't know, the K9 Blackdog is an old PPC computer that plugs into a regular

Re: My K9 Blackdog

2013-12-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:57:08AM -0800, Neko Ecchi wrote: Thanks, Lennart. I'll check out that source. I DO have access to the BlackDog SDK which runs on windows using QEMU that has GCC and will compile for my Virtex CPU. Sadly, I have no sources at all. They didn't ship the

Re: My K9 Blackdog

2013-12-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 03:27:52PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:57:08AM -0800, Neko Ecchi wrote: Thanks, Lennart. I'll check out that source. I DO have access to the BlackDog SDK which runs on windows using QEMU that has GCC and will compile for my

Re: Bug#724469: FTBFS on all big-endian architectures

2014-03-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 11:53:23AM +0100, intrigeri wrote: intrigeri wrote (20 Jan 2014 17:58:03 GMT) : https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=89552 Sure. Debian porters, I'll let you subscribe to the RT ticket, and hopefully take care of this porting problem. I'd like to see this RC

Re: which instruction sets are actually supported

2014-04-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 11:57:16PM +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: in the discussion at https://github.com/andrewlow/v8ppc/issues/111 comes the question about the minimum instruction set supported by debian-powerpc. I didn't find an answer in the documentation. Could you help me clarifying that ?

Re: Remote access to VSX and VMX128 capable machines?

2014-06-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 01:01:14AM +0300, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: Thanks for the reply, I've been reading the info in those links myself, from what I understand the VMX128 opcodes are an extention, that is, they are added on top of the existing VMX opcodes, isn't that correct? If not,

Re: Debian/ppc64el feasiability to become an official architecture

2014-07-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:14:08AM +0100, peter green wrote: Another question the ftpmasters will likely have is what is the relationship between ppc64 and ppc64el. Is there hardware that will run ppc64 but not ppc64el? is there hardware that will run ppc64el but not ppc64? is there hardware

Re: Debian/ppc64el feasiability to become an official architecture

2014-07-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 06:48:13PM +0100, peter green wrote: Not in debian proper but it is on debian-ports.org and it appears to be pretty healthy. Hmm, not listed under the official nor unofficial debian ports, while ppc64el is. https://www.debian.org/ports/ ppc64el listed, ppc64 is not.

Re: Debian/ppc64el feasiability to become an official architecture

2014-07-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:29:19PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: I'm not sure what your point is. Maybe “crazy how ppc64 people got interested in getting their packages built as opposed to getting debian.org ports page updated”? Anyway, if you want to know about the port, see the wiki[1], or

Re: Debian PPC test video problem with G5 Quad

2014-07-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 05:48:49PM +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote: On 30.07.14, 13:05 Rick Thomas wrote: Hi Keith, It’s definitely worth filing a bug. (See reportbug(1) for details on the procedure.) I guess, for lack of anything more precise, you should file it against package

Re: Support for PPC processors prior to POWER4 being dropped from kernel 3.17

2014-08-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 07:44:16AM -0400, David Gosselin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does this include 32-bit processors? The first link doesn't specify while the second appears to discuss 64-bit only. It would certainly be 64bit only. There is a lot of active use

Re: Support for PPC processors prior to POWER4 being dropped from kernel 3.17

2014-08-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 05:37:59PM +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote: On 13.08.14 16:11, Michel Dänzer wrote: On 13.08.2014 20:23, Rick Thomas wrote: Does anybody know if this affects the Moto G[345] processors used in the Apple Macintosh machines?

Re: Porting linuxinfo to ppc64el

2014-09-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 08:41:21AM -0400, larry wrote: [2] And, since I haven't had access to a PPC machine for quite some time, maybe on some plain PPC as well? Linux Terpsicore 3.11-2-powerpc #1 Debian 3.11.10-1 (2013-12-04) One 7400, altivec supported PowerMac3,1 400MHz processor, 49.81

Re: Porting linuxinfo to ppc64el

2014-09-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 09:11:21PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Thanks for testing. Yes, I finally removed the wrong heuristic for the memory some time ago. Regarding the bogomips: Could you send me the output for /proc/cpuinfo for this machine? There is no bogomips in there. It is a

Re: Adding ppc64el support in debian-cd

2014-09-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 06:19:43PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: I'm adding support for new architectures at the moment. powerpc is one of the most awkward existing arches to add boot support for at the moment, due to the mess of older machines. I'm hoping that ppc64el is better, but I don't

Re: Bug#761040: [libqtwebkit4] Browsers based on Webkit crash on loading pages

2014-10-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 03:48:27PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: OK, we will need a powerpc machine with more RAM available than the current powerpc porterbox. Debian PPC porters: can anyone build qtwebkit with a machine with at least 8GB of RAM+swap and the included

Re: Bug#761040: [libqtwebkit4] Browsers based on Webkit crash on loading pages

2014-10-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 10:36:56AM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: Current sid's qtwebkit (2.3.4.dfsg-2) ppc users says it crashes upon certain time (which seems to be not much). What I need is a proper backtrace generated with the patched qtwebkit. JFTR, qtwebkit

Re: Bug#761040: [libqtwebkit4] Browsers based on Webkit crash on loading pages

2014-10-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 10:09:10AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: Compiling now. dpkg-source hates some of the patches in the package and refuses to unpack it. quilt is fine with it, and using quilt refresh on the patches makes dpkg-source happy. Seems using a/... and b/... is no longer

Re: Bug#761040: [libqtwebkit4] Browsers based on Webkit crash on loading pages

2014-10-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 10:40:56AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 10:09:10AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: Compiling now. dpkg-source hates some of the patches in the package and refuses to unpack it. quilt is fine with it, and using quilt refresh on the patches

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 09:44:44PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: Hi all, I'd like to help on the ppc64 port, I have ppc32 hardware, ppc64/ppc64el remote VM accounts but no actual ppc64 hardware. I just lost an extremely low bid for an imac g5 on ebay and am short on cash for

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 10:48:20PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: It should be quite faster, and the ppc notebook above will use an e6500, but that will have to wait for a while. In the meantime, I would be fine with a used iMac G5, I was almost going to get one minutes ago but I was

Re: printing using brother mfc 640cw

2015-02-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 02:04:58AM -0600, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote: I am having issues printing to my brother printer. I can add it as a network printer but the recommended drivers is for a mfc 6550mc printer not 640cw. When I print a test page I see it connect and successfully send the

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 09:37:42PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: Hi, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote: Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 17:13:06 +0200, a écrit : +arch_porturl=ppc64el +arch_listname=ppc64el Please take care when updating these to be sure to understand

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 08:45:50PM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: Sorry for jumping in. I would like the chance to complement and clarify some things about ppc64el platform. As Aurelien pointed out, when used in OPAL mode, the system will boot a system running petitboot, which

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:26:51AM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: Well, bare metal has been mistakenly used to describe what I would call dedicated partition of single partition mode. People may call it bare metal, because there is no virtualized IO (in fact, there is the

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 07:16:50AM -0600, Sandeep G.R wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Sandeep G.R wrote: I have a sid PPC64 from http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ports running on Freescale Powerpc. Is their

Re: yaboot: How to load Debian8 netboot installation images directly from the boot: prompt?

2015-06-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 02:58:38PM +0200, Michael Felt wrote: 10 days late replying - my apologies. PowerPC - if I read that in a literal sense - is that basically oldish Macs that were build on the PowerPC processor. If the answer is yes, is there any interest in the Ubuntu Community to have

Re: Reg:Powerpc MPC 8641D support.

2015-06-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 06:28:00PM +0530, Sureshvs wrote: We have embedded system with MPC8641D PowerPC processor,running Linux kernel 3.10.32 on eldk 5.3 filesystem. we are planning to use the debian filesystem on Linux kernel 3.10.32. I have gone through the debian website for

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:46:41AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 04:45:54PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: On 25/08/15 16:34, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:53:31AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:09:58AM -0400

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 08:59:19AM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: Dear PPC porter people, The major Mono version pending in experimental fixes GCC5 and fixes reproducible builds and a dozen other bugs, so I don't want to delay it. It doesn't build on PowerPC any more, and nobody upstream is

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:09:58AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: OK, I was just trying what README.md said to do when using the get monolite option. I also just noticed I hadn't installed all the dependancies listed on http://www.mono-project.com/docs/compiling-mono/linux/ so I just did

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 03:06:21PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: On 25/08/15 14:44, Lennart Sorensen wrote: I did that, and got a ton of other errors. The readme file said to use: make get-monolite-latest make EXTERNAL_MCS=${PWD}/mcs/class/lib/monolite/basic.exe Don't touch

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:53:31AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:09:58AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: OK, I was just trying what README.md said to do when using the get monolite option. I also just noticed I hadn't installed all the dependancies listed

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:10:34PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: On 24/08/15 22:49, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 08:59:19AM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: Dear PPC porter people, The major Mono version pending in experimental fixes GCC5 and fixes reproducible builds and a dozen

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2015-08-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 04:45:54PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: On 25/08/15 16:34, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:53:31AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:09:58AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: OK, I was just trying what README.md said to do when

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