Re: PowerPC roadmap for Stretch

2016-10-04 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Mathieu Malaterre wrote... > >> Since there has been some fuss about powerpc recently, let's see if I >> can get some help on issue(s) I'd like to fix for Stretch. > > Let's see what I can do (and I'm

Re: PowerPC roadmap for Stretch

2016-10-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2016-10-03 at 22:00 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Ben, > > On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 9:16 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > > wrote: > > > > On 10/03/2016 09:14 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > > > > > You need to consider that d-i only ships radeonfb

Re: PowerPC roadmap for Stretch

2016-10-03 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Ben, On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 9:16 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 10/03/2016 09:14 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> You need to consider that d-i only ships radeonfb (there is another >> bug report from milan@d.o requesting it) about that. So the question >>

Re: PowerPC roadmap for Stretch

2016-10-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/03/2016 09:14 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > You need to consider that d-i only ships radeonfb (there is another > bug report from milan@d.o requesting it) about that. So the question > is really during d-i should we leave it as-is with a very low level > offb, or try to tidy up radeonfb

Re: PowerPC roadmap for Stretch

2016-10-03 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi, On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 8:52 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 10/03/2016 08:39 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> However step (2) above fails as explained in #826629. Thus I fear >> CONFIG_FB_RADEON=m only fixes the *symptoms*. I would really >> appreciate

Re: PowerPC roadmap for Stretch

2016-10-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/03/2016 08:39 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > However step (2) above fails as explained in #826629. Thus I fear > CONFIG_FB_RADEON=m only fixes the *symptoms*. I would really > appreciate if you could confirm that `radeonfb` properly works on your > Mac Mini G4. I wasn't using radeonfb on my

Re: PowerPC roadmap for Stretch

2016-10-03 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Adrian, On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 6:36 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 10/01/2016 02:16 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> 3. radeonfb should be able to kick out offb >> >> In case (2) above cannot be solved in time. We can also fix the color >> inversion

Re: PowerPC roadmap for Stretch

2016-10-03 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 02:16:56PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi all, > > Since there has been some fuss about powerpc recently, let's see if I > can get some help on issue(s) I'd like to fix for Stretch. > > If anyone is able to provide help with any of the following, please do > contact

Re: PowerPC roadmap for Stretch

2016-10-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/01/2016 02:16 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > 3. radeonfb should be able to kick out offb > > In case (2) above cannot be solved in time. We can also fix the color > inversion another way. Technically some PowerMac uses a radeon based > graphic card, so we could fix the radeonfb module issue

Re: PowerPC roadmap for Stretch

2016-10-03 Thread Christoph Biedl
Mathieu Malaterre wrote... > Since there has been some fuss about powerpc recently, let's see if I > can get some help on issue(s) I'd like to fix for Stretch. Let's see what I can do (and I'm subscribed to debian-powerpc now, so no need for Cc: in the future :) > 1. Secret GRUB option in d-i.

PowerPC roadmap for Stretch

2016-10-01 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi all, Since there has been some fuss about powerpc recently, let's see if I can get some help on issue(s) I'd like to fix for Stretch. If anyone is able to provide help with any of the following, please do contact me ! 1. Secret GRUB option in d-i. This is no suprise that we have a situation