Re: Radeon driver not works on PPC with X800

2016-06-19 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 "r420_cp.bin", but > then i only go

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

2016-06-19 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 working. > > I also t

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* Lennart Sorensen: > There are a lot of 32bit powerpc chips still going into embedded systems > being built today. They are not going away anytime soon. Do they implement the ISA required by the existing Debian port?

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-19 Thread Florian Weimer
> In other words, i don't think a s390x box will ever just die. I'm sure “death” encompasses all events which might lead Debian to lose access to relevant hardware. It's not just about faults with a piece of equipment.

powerpcspe: why DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck on buildds?

2016-06-19 Thread Christian Seiler
Dear ppcspe porters, As dietlibc has now been finally built for powerpcspe, I noticed from the build log [1] that DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck is set. I have taken great care to make sure a set of tests that covers many things is run when the package is built, to weed out architecture-specific proble

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-19 Thread William ML Leslie
On 19 June 2016 at 02:25, William ML Leslie wrote: > > In case it isn't clear, the number of users of the architecture is not part > of the qualification, it is the amount of maintenance pressure involved. > Package maintainers have to put more effort into ensuring builds succeed for > release