Re: Debian PowerPC and PowerPC Notebook: powerpc (32bit) - and eventually ppc64el...

2016-01-19 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 8:19 AM, Fadi Osman wrote: [...] > Please contact us if you think there are subjects/packages we can work on. Well the powerpc specific list(s) can be found using usertags: Eg:

Debian PowerPC and PowerPC Notebook: powerpc (32bit) - and eventually ppc64el...

2016-01-19 Thread Fadi Osman
Hello, (and a happy new year for you all) This is a follow up of the message I sent in december, from the behalf of the PowerPC Notebook project team.(http://www.powerpc-notebook.org) After a short discussion, and some solid arguments from some of you, we will start with the powerpc (Big Endian

Re: Debian PowerPC and PowerPC Notebook.

2015-12-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
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 of volunteers collaborating towards > building a notebook around the

Re: Debian PowerPC and PowerPC Notebook.

2015-12-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 01:35:42PM -0200, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > To access more physical memory? But sure, they could run a 64-bit kernel > with a 32-bit userspace. That's certainly how I have been running larger powerpc machines for years. > But since this is going to be used as

Re: Debian PowerPC and PowerPC Notebook.

2015-12-04 Thread Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
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.

2015-12-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
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 eventually dropped in favor of ppc64 and ppc64el... Well I see very little

Re: Debian PowerPC and PowerPC Notebook.

2015-12-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 08:31:39PM +0100, Linux User #330250 wrote: > Running 32-bit vs. 64-bit on powerpc makes me wonder… Is there a > multilib version of Debian powerpc? Well there are packages like lib64readline5 and libc6-ppc64 which provide 64 bit libraries as part of 32bit debian powerpc.

Re: Debian PowerPC and PowerPC Notebook.

2015-12-04 Thread Fadi Osman
x User #330250 <linuxuser330...@gmx.net> Cc : debian-powerpc <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org> Envoyé le : Vendredi 4 décembre 2015 21h17 Objet : Re: Debian PowerPC and PowerPC Notebook. On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 08:31:39PM +0100, Linux User #330250 wrote: > Running 32-bit vs. 64-bi

Re: Debian PowerPC and PowerPC Notebook.

2015-12-04 Thread Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
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: Debian PowerPC and PowerPC Notebook.

2015-12-04 Thread Linux User #330250
Hello! Running 32-bit vs. 64-bit on powerpc makes me wonder… Is there a multilib version of Debian powerpc? I've been running Gentoo and Debian on my Power Mac G4 and G5. To me, the problem seemed to be that I could not run selected programs 64-bit (as suggested), because that would have meant