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again for your work for powerpc port,
Thanks for your time.
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Hi Benjamin,
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 08:14:48AM +0100, Benjamin Cama wrote:
Very nice to have an almost official iso!
Sure.
Le mardi 14 décembre 2010 à 04:22 +0100, Aurélien GÉRÔME a écrit :
* yaboot-installer_1.1.19;
Does this include the amiga partition map renumbering fix? (I'm just
that make it possible !
OK, thanks, nice to know. Can you try the
unofficial-debian-squeeze-powerpc-netinst-2-yaboot-1.3.13.iso?
It just would be to make sure the culprit for the two-pass behaviour
is indeed a too old Yaboot release...
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not complain with PPC PReP Boot. It seems hw-detect
or yaboot-installer are at fault. Can you issue on the shell
archdetect, cat /proc/cpuinfo, and post the results?
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http://db.debian.org/fetchkey.cgi?fingerprint=2FC3907C20D963EBB234D023236C60C665B4B162
[3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2010/12/msg00421.html
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in yaboot and yaboot-installer?
Yes, I saw it and it is your opinion. Do you find the changes in
the new upstream release intrusive?
On 12/01/2010 05:10 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
Same thoughts here.
I'm working on the solution with people who answered my public and
private calls
if those could be
uploaded to the BTS for public reference and perhaps regression tests.
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of yaboot_1:1.3.13a to unstable.
Milan is willing to act as a co-maintainer for yaboot. Can you add
him to the alioth project?
Sure, he is very welcomed.
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can't guess what people are doing. Seeing this ML's activity recently, I
was under the impression that everyone had let yaboot down. Nice to here
someone is trying to improve it, but I wonder what solution he found.
Same thoughts here.
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On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 11:10:51PM +0100, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
When you talk about Joseph's code, do you talk about the changes in the
Gentoo package or something elsewhere (which I have obviously missed)?
Replying to myself:
http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/yaboot-devel/attachments/20100916
a good starting
point to fill it. It is also why quilt patches are nice, you can
describe each patch in debian/changelog.
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Dual core (not found the frequency) with 1 GB of RAM, still ~$600 (they
could/should have saved on the Ethernet switch, why 6 ports ?),
but the other one is $3500...
Nice news! I will probably get one.
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less confusing than
gnuspe, WRT other architectures.
What kind of hardware are you using?
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with a MPC8379E. The user-space will run just
fine. You just need to build your own kernel for your specific board.
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On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 01:44:26PM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
I have experience with a MPC8379E. The user-space will run just
fine. You just need to build your own kernel for your specific board.
I meant MPC8349E. MPC8379E is for another project and I do not have
one yet. :)
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(already present in Ubuntu):
. spufs support in initscripts (mountkernfs.sh)
Arthur is involved in the compiler field (gdc and llvm), and I
remember discussing those SPU patches with him, so he will probably
be interested in packaging them.
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also intend to package petitboot from Benjamin
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Debootloaders project.
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:59:54PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Speaking about Ubuntu vs. Debian: how difficult is it to get packages that are
in Ubuntu but not in Debian in Debian?
Not very difficult, as long as they match Debian quality
requirements. :)
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device-tree-compiler with wrong versioning in
Ubuntu (your 0.1-1 version is actually an old git checkout), while
I have an up-to-date package in Debian. I am no Ubuntu core-dev,
so I am not allowed to sync it...
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The package has been ready for quite a while. It is just not uploaded
in the archive, as I have no rights to do so and as my powerpc
sponsoring force has been expelled from Debian.
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mounted in your chroot? It seems that it only
occurs in chroots without /proc mounted.
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Given the rumors powerpc would be dead, I suggest to name them all :)
The Debian's Organizational Structure page only lists DD. At least,
one of them in the previous list is not DD; find the intruder. :)
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package have, i.e. important utils, and
Yaboot will depend on it to use ofpathname.
As I understand the importance of it, I will finish it this afternoon.
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ofpathname really does need fixing to support
partitions of devices.
Not necessarily, Suse has a patch for Yaboot to circumvent this issue
of partitions which I need to adapt a bit to work with ofpathname
for Debian. :)
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port.
This is the reproach I have against Grub2 (on PowerPC) when
Sven and I talk about it: it is not enough mature to become
architecture-generic. The last time I dug the code (1 month ago),
I found duplicities which disturbed me. :(
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On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 02:33:31PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
Okay, in that case, I strongly disagree. That would be like saying
the efforts to get it working until now are worthless.
No, it would simply be a statement of fact. If d-i cannot be made to
support oldworld
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 12:59:47AM +0200, Stefan Gartner wrote:
On Saturday, 26. August 2006 23:57, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
In any case, Bulgaria is not so far from France, at least, less far
than Australia. ;)
If you're referring to my offer, the machine in question is not in Australia
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 11:44:52AM +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote:
Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
This is also the time for users to post here if you still use Nubus
and want it to be brought back to life.
I have a Nubus machine and definitely would love if it is resurrected.
The machine has some
is a Dual G4
PowerPC 500 MHz administered by DSA nowadays. It seems to run quite
reliably. :)
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Indeed, but it was not technically a mailing-list. :)
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Well, for debian-68k, the developing list at nocrew.org is not used
anymore. Things evolve and, to my mind, regrouping users and developers
might not be a bad thing.
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binary code... And under a main/ directory? It
seems Debian was not so strict in this era. ;) The same is also true
for at least the alpha architecture.
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amd64. Nevertheless, if I can help in some way I will. That said I'm a
user rather than a developer/maintainer.
Sure, getting us the machine will be already a great help. :)
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which does all the job of hardware initialisation, thus the correct
behaviour with miBoot. :)
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On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 01:30:20PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
On Friday 18 August 2006 22:49, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:56:52PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Do you think it will be ready for inclusion in etch at release time?
Hard to say, since Piotr and I have
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 02:41:40PM +0200, Simon Stapleton wrote:
On 19 Aug 2006, at 13:43, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
It does not surprise me at all. It is not the fault of Quik, it is
simply that OF is completely broken on OldWorld PowerMacs. Those
machines were never intended to be booted from
) and friends in
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debootloaders/trunk/miboot/src/LowLevelBoot.c?op=filerev=0sc=0.
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to work out what's going on (mainly because my
forth is somewhat rusty :-)
Indeed, it is called pre_strap_ppc.c in miBoot and the funny thing with
it is that it is powerpc code which is called by m68k-emulated code. :)
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not possible for now. :)
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discussed it, the 3 points will use mkvmlinuz to produce
the kernel images. Of course, mkvmlinuz will need some care to do so,
as the miBoot cases are actually void...
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On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:39:31PM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
Like Sven explains above, you have 5 kinds of Macintosh machines in
chronological order:
Well, for the sake of completeness, 6 kinds if we add the early Macs
with Motorola 6502 processors like the Commodore 64 had. ;)
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changed, or BootX
cannot find the sections of the image anymore? We cannot fiddle with
BootX source code to see what happens, but we will be able with miBoot
source code when it will be ready. :)
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On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:45:42PM +0200, Torbjorn Pettersson wrote:
Aurélien GÉRÔME [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, for the sake of completeness, 6 kinds if we add the early Macs
with Motorola 6502 processors like the Commodore 64 had. ;)
Eh? What Mac would that be? You are not confusing
, that could also be added by using EMILE macoslib which is
what we intend to do, but the CD part will only be available when
Laurent will have done what he says at http://emile.sourceforge.net/
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On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:56:52PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Do you think it will be ready for inclusion in etch at release time?
Hard to say, since Piotr and I have no deadline... :)
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of them work on my beige G3. In it's
current state, even if it were free, miboot would not be a workable
solution because it only works from floppies.
Well, it works on a hard disk, but as I said earlier, it is not
trivial to get it working by hand.
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On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:52:24PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
What is PTBs? :)
Powers that be...
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:44:23AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Perhaps the Debian PTBs should simply admit that PowerPC OldWorld
Macintosh
unsupported on Linux/PowerPC and binary kernel module only on
Linux/x86.
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Hi,
Is there any projects that intend to support sound on G5 machines,
or do everybody really not care?
I cannot seem to find on google. :(
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On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:20:55PM +0100, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
Hi everyone,
Here are the instructions to boot this machine:
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html#g3v2.
Unfortunately, I have no legacy MacOS. My sole MacOSX runs only on
a laptop with no floppy drive.
I request
it on a file on a Unix System, and then upload it somewhere,
it would be nice. :)
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it is not available on Linux/PPC: http://www.motorola.com/softmodem/.
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time on a more useful project. ;)
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On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 06:25:25PM +0100, Martin Lohmeier wrote:
Quoting Aurélien GÉRÔME [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I activated debugging of dpkg with -D, but no errors were actually
displayed.
I tryed this too.
By further tests, I saw the installation seems
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BOFH excuse #448: vi needs
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 12:35:14PM +0100, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 05:26:11PM -0800, Andrea Giusto wrote:
Hello all,
I tried connexant drivers for my internal modem, but it didn't work. I have
a
PowerBook G4 12'' 1.33 Mhz. Anyone has its modem working? Thanx
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 12:10:57PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 19:42 +0100, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
Hi there,
I have a PowerBook5,2 G4 15, and this modem on it:
P: Vendor=05ac ProdID=8203 Rev= 5.26
Linuxant said it is not supported. Did anyone
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On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 11:18:28AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 01:35:18AM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
On the hardware front I am looking at a G4 desktop system on ebay.
Prices seem to be a bit high - $300 for a used G4. I would get a G3
model but the hard drive
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