Re: Debian 8.5.0 iso on qemu vm

2016-07-08 Thread Frederic Bonnard
Thanks a lot Lennart, > I think it is a console problem. > > Interestingly, if you don't use -nographic, it works fine with the > emulated graphical console. the host is console only and when I tried, I got SDL initialization failure. > And yes it is a console problem. Doing this works: > >

Debian 8.5.0 iso on qemu vm

2016-07-08 Thread Frederic Bonnard
Hi, anyone having success to boot the latest Jessie netinst iso with a qemu vm ? iso : http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.5.0/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-8.5.0-powerpc-netinst.iso cli : qemu-system-ppc -m 1024 -nographic -nodefaults -serial mon:stdio -hda disk.img -cdrom

Re: Debian/ppc64el images being tested daily

2016-06-03 Thread Frederic Bonnard
Hi, > The PowerPC iso's can be tested using ordinary x86 hardware. Just use an > emulator like QEMU. > > http://wiki.qemu.org/Main_Page I think, the goal is to test on real hardware. There are several lines of code implied in the installation process and also in the life of the OS (maybe more

Re: Updating nvram via grub's postinst breaks some ppc64el systems

2016-04-11 Thread Frederic Bonnard
Hi Mathieu, > TL;DR: anyone against adding --no-nvram to grub-install calls for > grub-ieee1275, in postinst for ppc64el? No, nothing against that, on the contrary. Also after querying some other people more knowledgeable , especially Paulo Smorigo (grub contributor), he told : "I agree with

Re: RAS tools : pull request from Ubuntu

2016-03-31 Thread Frederic Bonnard
+0200, Frederic Bonnard <fre...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > Hi all/guys, > I have a few opened ITPs concerning IBM RAS tools and their dependencies. > Ubuntu guys > (amongst others Adam and Colin) kindly helped by fixing/improving the > packages and > included them in

Re: Help with porting opengl java libraries (gluegen2 / libjogl2-java) to ppc64el

2015-10-23 Thread Frederic Bonnard
Hey Gilles, yes sure. I'll try that today, and will let you know about it. F. On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 22:46:54 +0200, Gilles Filippini wrote: > Hi Frédéric, > > Is there a chance you could give a try at launching scilab 5.5.2-2~exp3 > currently in experimental. This is why I

Re: Help with porting opengl java libraries (gluegen2 / libjogl2-java) to ppc64el

2015-10-14 Thread Frederic Bonnard
Hi Gilles, here is what I get when trying to run the test : -- debian@abanc:~$ java -cp .:/usr/share/java/gluegen2-rt.jar:/usr/share/java/jogl2.jar OneTriangleAWT libEGL warning: failed to open /dev/dri/card0 libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to open i965 (search paths

Re: Help with porting opengl java libraries (gluegen2 / libjogl2-java) to ppc64el

2015-10-09 Thread Frederic Bonnard
Salut Gilles, I've got a baremetal machine here, and I can do some testing if you want. Do you have the .deb available for download ? Fred On Fri, 09 Oct 2015 00:29:10 +0200, Gilles Filippini wrote: > Hi, > > [ Please CC me on answer as I'm not subscribed to the list ] > >

Re: Help with porting opengl java libraries (gluegen2 / libjogl2-java) to ppc64el

2015-10-09 Thread Frederic Bonnard
> Would you mind building from the source packages? I should have them > ready by this evening. Sources are ok for me. This evening, I won't be next to the machine. Will a remote X display be ok for the test ? Else I can test with a real display on Monday morning, if it's not too late for your

RAS tools : pull request from Ubuntu

2014-10-08 Thread Frederic Bonnard
Hi all/guys, I have a few opened ITPs concerning IBM RAS tools and their dependencies. Ubuntu guys (amongst others Adam and Colin) kindly helped by fixing/improving the packages and included them in Ubuntu. Could someone consider inclusion in Debian and pull them if possible ? Here is the list