Helping with PPC64 port: missing coreutils in sid

Hi, folks. I would like to start contributing to the PPC64 port, since I have access to some machines. When trying to debootstrap from debian-ports, I find that the sid Packages file has coreutils (and maybe all other packages in unreleased?) missing. unreleased, on the other hand, does not have

Re: Impact of [linux-any] when pbuilding packages on powerpc for squeeze

Hi, e20100633. The problem is really pbuilder's version. If you checked the changelog, you would notice that version 0.199+nmu2 fixed bug #363193, which shows the linux-any issue as one of its first messages. This is not a powerpc issue. You should use a newer version of pbuilder on your powerpc

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

On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 09:43:07PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 08:45:50PM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: When it comes to IBM latest servers, that are three options for platforms: OPAL (powernv in Linux), as PowerKVM guest, and PowerVM LPAR (both

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

On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 11:06:08PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Aurelien Jarno, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 22:08:44 +0200, a écrit : On 2015-04-12 20:22, Samuel Thibault wrote: Since petitboot runs inside a running linux kernel, that only shifts the problem of booting that linux kernel :)

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

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:24:58AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Breno Leitao, le Fri 10 Apr 2015 17:44:01 -0300, a écrit : On 04/09/2015 01:13 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: Hello everybody, the release date for Jessie is near, but the installation-guide does not seem to contain any

Re: Debian PowerPC and PowerPC Notebook.

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 10:26:47AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 06:09:28AM +, Fadi Osman wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm contacting you on the behalf of the PowerPC Notebook project > > team.(http://www.powerpc-notebook.org) > > As you might already know, we are a group

Re: Debian PowerPC and PowerPC Notebook.

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 04:05:18PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 08:55:12PM +, Fadi Osman wrote: > > Hello Len, > > I am checking with the others before answering you questions. > > But I remember one of the reasons is that we were worried that powerpc > > would be

Re: apt http backend hangs in LXC container on ppc64el

On January 22, 2017 2:34:09 PM GMT-02:00, Antonio Terceiro wrote: >Hi, > >[sorry for the large cross-post, but I don't really know where the >problem could be; please keep me in Cc: since I'm not debian-powerpc@ >not on deity@] > >The Campinas IBM team has generously made a

Re: retrieving passwords

On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 09:54:33AM +0100, Christophe De Natale wrote: > Le 29/10/2016 à 22:07, Klaus Becker a écrit : > > On samedi 29 octobre 2016 21:11:25 CEST Klaus Becker wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I installed Debian 8 on an Ibook G4 but I forgot passwords. > > > > > > I know how to create

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 07:16:00PM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote: > luigi burdo wrote... > > > Im thinking to start a petition about ... "dont kill debian penguins on > > powerpc" > > Don't. The release team folks are not politicians who get convinced by > a lot of noise. Unless I completely

Re: Problem with gem network card

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 10:24:41AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 08:25:43AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 12:14 AM, Christian Groessler > > > After > > > > > > $ ip link set eth0 down > > > $ ip link set eth0 up > > > > > > it's working

Re: Using 4KiB page size by default on buildds

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:23:17AM +0200, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 09:02:37AM -0200, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > > So, my proposal here is that we decide on a default page size for > > buildds and kernels shipped with Debian, give the option for th

Re: Using 4KiB page size by default on buildds

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 09:17:56AM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo > <casca...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > While recently investigating the mariadb bug, I found out the culprit i

Using 4KiB page size by default on buildds

Hi, While recently investigating the mariadb bug, I found out the culprit is in fact jemalloc. This library assumes the system page size is the one that it found when building it. The version in Jessie was built on a 4KiB-page size system. So, when using it on a 64KiB-page size system, we might

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:58:31PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > > On 31/10/2016 18:44, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > I am not a DD, or a DM, but I have certainly helped fix problems for > > powerpc, including in language runtimes for languages I don't use. > > Unfortunately it seems

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 04:34:15PM -0700, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote: > I have they in the past kept and architecture that was dropped as a release > arch? GNU/kFreeBSD was released as a technology preview for squeeze, kept as TP in wheezy, then not made part of the jessie. I can't find it in

Re: Problem with gem network card

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 07:51:30PM +0200, Christian Groessler wrote: > Hi, > > on my Mac G5 I see loss of network connectivity when doing big downloads or > uploads. > > The machine cannot be pinged anymore then and also cannot ping out. > > When it's happening I see the following messages: >

Re: POWER6 not seeing memory above 2Gb

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 09:07:49PM -0400, Adam Stouffer wrote: > Hello all, I'm new to the list and just installed jessie on my IBM > 8203-E4A box. It's a dual core 4.2Ghz with 16Gb of memory. > > But anyhow like the subject says the kernel is only reporting 2Gb of > available memory. I tried

Re: Xorg fails on ATI after update (mmio aperture)

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 02:43:56PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Quoting: > > > > > >If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all > > > >io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that range. > > >