Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?

2014-01-14 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Rick Thomas wrote: Hi All! Did anything ever come of this? What can we do to make it happen? now that the holidays are over and we each have a little more free time… Rick I missed that message! I love PPC and I am still very sad it is getting, along with MIPS; a second-level platform w

Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?

2014-01-14 Thread Gasha
Hi I spent some time, to learn about automatic build of packages. Target was to try to recompile with newer GCC. Not much progress however... Gasha On 01/14/2014 12:16 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Hi All! Did anything ever come of this? What can we do to make it happen? now that the holidays are

Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?

2014-01-14 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi All! Did anything ever come of this? What can we do to make it happen? now that the holidays are over and we each have a little more free time… Rick On Nov 20, 2013, at 9:07 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: > Dear people, > > Motivated by: > > * the results of the last call to porters > * th

Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?

2013-11-25 Thread gw [j] iza [b] superstar
I would be willing to help out with some task like organizing the documentation and/or translations; of course also testing packages on the user end as needed. I like the idea of a top organizational mastermind making some task sub- teams; and I'm willing to head-up 1-2 things appointed to me.

Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?

2013-11-21 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 09:16:07 -0500 "Lennart Sorensen" wrote: > I think other than the installer needing a bit of work to know the > correct partition setup to use on IBM powerpc systems (as far as I > recall wheezy still doesn't quite do the right thing, although it has > been a while since I did

Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?

2013-11-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 21, 2013, at 7:15 AM, Risto Suominen wrote: > Good idea, Rogério! > > I've been working with powermac sound drivers, and could contribute at > least in that area: automatic detection of sound hardware during the > installation. Plus testing, I still own quite many old powermacs. > > Ris

Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?

2013-11-21 Thread Risto Suominen
Good idea, Rogério! I've been working with powermac sound drivers, and could contribute at least in that area: automatic detection of sound hardware during the installation. Plus testing, I still own quite many old powermacs. Risto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?

2013-11-21 Thread Christian Zigotzky
Hi there, Yes, that's right, there are new PPC hardware. Look at the following pages: http://www.supertuxkart-amiga.de/amiga/x1000.html http://www.supertuxkart-amiga.de/amiga/sam.html http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewforum.php?f=35 http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewforum.php

Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?

2013-11-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 03:07:39AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > Dear people, > > Motivated by: > > * the results of the last call to porters > * the fact that PowerPC (at least) used to be an architecture where Debian > shined > * the lack of external support (which means that we should help o

Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?

2013-11-21 Thread pferrucci
Hello, > we are essentially orphans of the architecture. Again, would anybody else be > interested in addressing the current problems that PowerPC seems to have? Note that there are PPC users out there you might don't think of. Two companies (links below) build PPC hardware primarily targeting Am

Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?

2013-11-21 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Erik de Castro Lopo writes: > Rogério Brito wrote: > > > Please, let me know if you are interested in joining efforts. I will only > > commit efforts if I see other people contributing, as I have my hands full > > already. > > I'm interested in contributing. While I am an experienced devel

Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?

2013-11-20 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Rogério Brito wrote: > Please, let me know if you are interested in joining efforts. I will only > commit efforts if I see other people contributing, as I have my hands full > already. I'm interested in contributing. While I am an experienced developer (mostly user space, C, C++, Python Ocaml, Ha

Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?

2013-11-20 Thread thinkbr...@gmail.com
Hi, I would be interested in helping out. I don't have a significant amount of experience with software development, but I do have a good selection of PowerPC hardware and several years of experience with Debian. Logan Brown On Nov 21, 2013 12:24 AM, "Rogério Brito" wrote: > Dear people, > > Mo