On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 08:45:33AM +, Budweiser Gregor wrote:
> I was not aware of this. We are using the powerpc packages. I assume
> those are more generic builds (like i386 used to be).
e500 can't execute FPU code from generic powerpc as far as I know.
At least not 64 bit FPU code. Of
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 11:59:32AM -0400, Sam Imberman wrote:
> Thanks for your response!
> The image is the one available at:
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/10.0/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-10.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso
>
> When I try to mount /dev/sdb1 manually using `mount /dev/sdb1 /cdrom`
On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 08:37:20AM -0400, Sam Imberman wrote:
> /proc/partitions:
>
> major minor #blocks name
> 11 0 1048575sr0
> 8 0 58605120 sda
> 8 16 15581184 sdb
> 8 17 318524 sdb1
>
> Also, I uploaded screenshots of /var/log/syslog upthread, is that what you
> mean?
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 03:14:10PM +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> Hello,
> since two months I am debugging the kernel boot process on an Apple
> powerbook because latest Debian kernels do not boot. I already opened a bug
> against debian src:linux package[1].
> Finally, I found the problem and I
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 04:10:10PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Not sure whether it's an actual problem because the majority of users with
> a 32-bit kernel will be on Mac hardware, so the number of fixed systems
> will certainly outweigh the number of systems which can't be debugged.
On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 11:08:06PM +0200, David VANTYGHEM wrote:
> I've got a good bandwith at home. So, I'm making a mirror for Debian
> (and other Linux distributions). I'm trying jigdo but I read that it is
> not anymore updated and that it's better to use zsync
>
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 07:17:34AM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> Provided you don't mind the power usage you may run Debian sid on an old
> Apple Power Mac machine just fine. In fact the Power Mac quad has decent
> performance and it is great to have around for doing code test work as
> it is big
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 05:04:48PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I had to re-read this several times and just to be clear: You can still
> run big-endian code perfectly fine on POWER8 machines and newer (unless
> IBM removed support with POWER10).
You can, but it seems very few people
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 12:34:49AM +0100, Karl wrote:
> will there be a Debian 11 release for PPC64be again or is it Sid?
> Because on that site, it’s listed as available:
> https://openpower.ic.unicamp.br/minicloud/
I don't recall ppc64 ever being an official released architecture.
ppc was but
On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 03:30:05PM -0300, Alexandre Bencz wrote:
> well...
>
> this is quite interesting, even for use on Power7 servers ... I have several
> clients that use Debian on P7 and P6 so, having a compilation that uses
> the latest CPU instructions, would be interesting
Right, so
On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 08:37:02AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I would like to switch the ppc64 kernel back to 4k pages. The majority
> of our users are people on G5 Macs anyway, so I don't see a point
> in using 64k pages.
>
> Anyone with a large modern POWER machine is going to
On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 03:08:55PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Is POWER5 still supported by the Linux kernel? I thought IBM removed a
> bunch of older machines but kept PowerPC 970 support.
4.17 dropped power4. power5 and up are still supported just fine.
--
Len Sorensen
On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 09:24:08PM +, Deinsti Suski wrote:
> Recently me and a friend of mine have been trying to install Debian Sid on
> an IBM pSeries 550 server to no avail; we have attempted a variety of
> methods such as installing GRUB with everything on an / ext4 partition,
> GRUB with
On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 02:48:03PM +, Deinsti Suski wrote:
> Hello Len
>
> 1; Yes, we are using the MBR Partition table
> 2; the PreP partition is 8MB and has the Boot flag set to on
> 3; Debian is running on bare-metal, no hypervisor involved
> 3; Correct, the installer boots with no issues
On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 08:03:38AM -0600, Stan Johnson wrote:
> Some people find it to be important to install only free software.
>
> If hfsprogs were truly non-free, then an alternative would need to be
> found, since hfsprogs provides required functionality.
>
> I read the above links, which
On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 06:53:57AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> So, why should laws protect the intellectual property of software companies
> but not the IP of hardware companies?
Ideally it shouldn't.
> What supporters euphemistically call a "right to repair" is in reality an
>
On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 12:17:25PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Thanks for the support!
>
> Since original discussion evolved around the G3 beige model, I would prefer
> if the community found a cheap G3 beige model to work on for me.
>
> Also, the G3 beige tower takes less space
On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 05:49:29PM +, Mick Bert wrote:
> Trying to compile a software, the configure fails complaining for missing
> icu-config. I have already installed icu-devtools and libicu-dev. Which
> package should I install?
>
> Are there a way to query which package contains a
On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 10:23:38PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> It should work on the standard 32-bit PowerPC baseline which includes
> AltiVec. Other systems such as PowerPC E500 had their own Debian port
> anyway (powerpcspe).
32 bit powerpc does not require altivec. e300 runs it
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 10:27:59PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Yes. And this is not acceptable because they are manipulating the baseline.
>
> Thanks for catching this. This is our bug!
I would be surprised if powerpc is the only architecture bitten by this.
What is i386 being
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 09:34:23PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> OK. I'm regenerating the chroots on the build servers now and then
> trigger another rebuild of the package. If that still doesn't help,
> we know there is some runtime detection which enables these instructions
> during
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 04:26:04PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 09:34:23PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > OK. I'm regenerating the chroots on the build servers now and then
> > trigger another rebuild of the package. If that still doesn't he
On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 01:08:47PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Well, you could have runtime detection like certain multimedia codes and
> OpenSSL use but
> most packages don't do that.
>
> Either way, if certain downstreams want better support for certain targets,
> they are
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 08:56:00AM -0700, to...@suse.de wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 03:58:08PM +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> > Hi Tony,
>
> Hi.
>
> > Have you already looked below the cover of the cooling system? Is
> > there any visible leakage (remove power before looking into that)?
>
On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 02:14:16PM +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> As per `grub-install(8)`:
>
> ```
> grub-install copies GRUB images into boot/grub.
> ```
>
> As the call to `grub-install` is performed by `chroot` inside the root
> FS of the new installation, I assume the FAT bootstrap
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 09:24:42PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Blocks are like C++ lamda's. ObjC folks like to use them to ensure
> cleanup in a function, like releasing a handle or free'ing memory.
Funny how the high level description of them couldn't even bother so
explain that. That does
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 01:24:15PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have started working on an updated »hfsprogs« packages based on the
> split-out version of the HFS(+) code in the »hfs« package. For this,
> I have forked Apple's original »hfs« package on Github [1].
>
>
On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 04:58:06PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Well, it works with ISO images, that's the point. The installation CDs use
> iso9660
> as their filesystem and they have a blessed bootloader which shows in the
> firmware's
> boot menu.
>
> Thomas Schmitt briefly
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 12:01:45PM +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote:
> I am the proud owner of this ancient machine on which I am attempting to
> install Debian. This machine is equipped with a Gotek floppy emulator
> and a ZuluSCSI emulator (for HDD and CD-ROM) for convenience reasons.
> For
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 02:05:01PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> That might be possible, but you need a PReP boot partition on your
> disk (type 0x41), to which you directly copy the kernel if memory
> serves.
Later releases put yaboot or grub2 on that partition so you actually
got a proper
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