Re: no sound on powermac3,3 (powerbook g4 550) debian502 gnome

2009-09-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 19:33 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Do you know a way for us to know if aoa or powerpc is the right choice? Or the oposite, a way to know that aoa is known to be broken in a set of machine ids or like? Well, generally speaking, aoa only picks up machines it knows about

Re: no sound on powermac3,3 (powerbook g4 550) debian502 gnome

2009-09-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 12:12 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: Right, but now the snd-powermac driver is what is being used instead of the snd-aoa* driver. Perhaps BenH (one of the principal developers of Linux on PowerPC) could shed some comments here with the final word so that we can settle

Re: Debian has failed us

2007-01-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 11:40 -0600, Mathew Binkley wrote: Greetings. I am the senior system administrator at Vanderbilt University's supercomputing center. We operate a 1500 processor cluster for researchers at Vanderbilt. Our current cluster is divided between 840 Intel/AMD x86 processors,

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 15:02 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:18:40PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Its not a mkvmlinuz problem, the problem is in the kernel itself, and will probably be fixed for 2.6.17. I am watching this, and will try to do

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Its not a mkvmlinuz problem, the problem is in the kernel itself, and will probably be fixed for 2.6.17. I am watching this, and will try to do a backport if something promising comes on. Not sure i will have the time to fix it myself though. Prep has been relegated to an embedded

Re: legal stuff about miBoot

2004-03-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 03:28, Jeremie Koenig wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 08:55:40AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Where did you get your upstream version ? miBoot is distributed as part of the BootX package (shares some sources with it) and is GPLed Make sure you get an up

Re: legal stuff about miBoot

2004-03-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 13:01, Jeremie Koenig wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 12:00:21PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: 1.0d4 has numerous issues and will not work with recent kernels afaik. Why is there a problem using the more recent one ? I have only succeeded loading miboot.image

Bug#237894: installation-reports: partman doesn't start and wifi isn't automatically detected on powerbook

2004-03-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 10:08:19PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: I'm having trouble finding the correct PCI ID in this list. Here's what I think everything is so far. If someone could please shed some light on what I've got wrong, it'd be much appreciated. It's not absolutely clear to me on