Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-08-30 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 04:30:17PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 04:27:56PM +0200, Gianluca Renzi wrote: > > > Cool! But my platform is ppc64be! :-( > > What hardware is that? I want one. Perhaps this? https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/ -- Marco Ciampa I

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-08-29 Thread Steven A. Falco
On 8/29/19 10:21 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote: > On a side note: ppc64le was also enabled recently on fedora for the copr > builds and possibly also their official packages of kicad. It is in updates/testing, and should become available in official updates soon. For example:

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-08-29 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 04:27:56PM +0200, Gianluca Renzi wrote: > Cool! But my platform is ppc64be! :-( What hardware is that? I want one. Simon ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to :

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-08-29 Thread Gianluca Renzi
Cool! But my platform is ppc64be! :-( On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 4:21 PM Nick Østergaard wrote: > On a side note: ppc64le was also enabled recently on fedora for the copr > builds and possibly also their official packages of kicad. > > tor. 29. aug. 2019 14.22 skrev Gianluca Renzi : > >> Ok,

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-08-29 Thread Nick Østergaard
On a side note: ppc64le was also enabled recently on fedora for the copr builds and possibly also their official packages of kicad. tor. 29. aug. 2019 14.22 skrev Gianluca Renzi : > Ok, thanks! > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 1:40 PM Jean-Samuel Reynaud > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Best way it step 0

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-08-29 Thread Gianluca Renzi
Ok, thanks! On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 1:40 PM Jean-Samuel Reynaud wrote: > Hi, > > Best way it step 0 (backup) then step 2 (adding ppa and install kicad > 5.1 over v4). Normaly there is no complicts. By using "apt full-upgrade" > once ppa is added, kicad should be upgraded. > > Tell me. > > For

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-08-29 Thread Jean-Samuel Reynaud
Hi, Best way it step 0 (backup) then step 2 (adding ppa and install kicad 5.1 over v4). Normaly there is no complicts. By using "apt full-upgrade" once ppa is added, kicad should be upgraded. Tell me. For next reply, no need to put developers list in copy ;) I'll help you directly.. Thanks, Le

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-08-29 Thread Gianluca Renzi
Ok, thanks! I will give it a try on my PPC64 machine! I have a question: at the moment I have on PPC64 ubuntu 16.04 and Kicad 4 installed from ubuntu packages. In the same machine I have compiled from sources (as the patches of mine) Kicad 5 and installed in a different path /opt/kicad-5 . Which

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-08-29 Thread Jean-Samuel Reynaud
On Ubuntu 19.04, this is version 5.0.2 by default (but not available for PPC). Instead of recompiling, you can also use ppa (ppa:js-reynaud/kicad-5.1) but only for PPC64. Regards, Le 29/08/2019 à 09:49, Gianluca Renzi a écrit : > Ok, I will do that. > This evening I will have a look on what is

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-08-29 Thread Gianluca Renzi
Ok, I will do that. This evening I will have a look on what is installed by default on Ubuntu 19.04. Otherwise I will compile V5.1 from scratch. Regards, On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 9:43 AM Jean-Samuel Reynaud wrote: > Dear Gianluca, > > KiCad V4 is really old. For me it's not a good idea to

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-08-29 Thread Jean-Samuel Reynaud
Dear Gianluca, KiCad V4 is really old. For me it's not a good idea to provide packages on new distributions (not even sure that it will compile without patches...). Normaly, you can convert your work (keep a backup somewhere..) to V5 or better V5.1. As far as I remember, KiCad V5.1 is able to

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-08-28 Thread Gianluca Renzi
Hello guys! I hope everything is going well. I have a request for Jean: I see you have the kicad 4 package up to ubuntu 18.04. Great work indeed! In those days I got a new laptop running ubuntu 19.04 and it is a x86_64 based. I was wondering if you can have kicad 4 for this ubuntu 19.04. Yesterday

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-02-27 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Hi Jean-Samuel, I merged your patch. Thanks, Wayne On 2/27/2019 7:44 AM, Jean-Samuel Reynaud wrote: > Hi all, > > Please find attached a last (I hope) patch for PPC64 compilation issues... > > Regards, > Le 20/02/2019 à 16:00, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit : >> Hi Jean-Samuel, >> >> I merged your

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-02-27 Thread Jean-Samuel Reynaud
Hi all, Please find attached a last (I hope) patch for PPC64 compilation issues... Regards, Le 20/02/2019 à 16:00, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit : > Hi Jean-Samuel, > > I merged your patch into the dev branch. Thank you for your > contribution to KiCad. > > Cheers, > > Wayne > > On 2/20/2019 8:18

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-02-20 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Hi Jean-Samuel, I merged your patch into the dev branch. Thank you for your contribution to KiCad. Cheers, Wayne On 2/20/2019 8:18 AM, Jean-Samuel Reynaud wrote: > Dear All, > > Following this patch application, please find attached a small patch to > fix compilation issue on PPC64 (PPC32

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-02-20 Thread Jean-Samuel Reynaud
Dear All, Following this patch application, please find attached a small patch to fix compilation issue on PPC64 (PPC32 was ok). Regards, Le 18/02/2019 à 14:40, Seth Hillbrand a écrit : > Am 2019-02-11 10:39, schrieb Jean-Samuel Reynaud: >> Dear all, >> >>  Please find attached a patch to

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-02-18 Thread Vesa Solonen
Tomasz Wlostowski kirjoitti 18.2.2019 klo 12.37: > On 18/02/2019 11:14, Gianluca Renzi wrote: >> I am using readon driver. The opensource one. > > It supports only a part of OpenGL standard if it fails to compile a > simple shader (and the Cairo canvas works fast only for very small PCB > designs

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-02-18 Thread Gianluca Renzi
Great, thanks! On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 2:40 PM Seth Hillbrand wrote: > Am 2019-02-11 10:39, schrieb Jean-Samuel Reynaud: > > Dear all, > > > > Please find attached a patch to adding missing support for Linux > > platform on arch PPC and PPC64. > > It's proposed by an external user who need

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-02-18 Thread Seth Hillbrand
Am 2019-02-11 10:39, schrieb Jean-Samuel Reynaud: Dear all, Please find attached a patch to adding missing support for Linux platform on arch PPC and PPC64. It's proposed by an external user who need that... Regards, This patch has been pushed to the KiCad source tree. Thank you

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-02-18 Thread Gianluca Renzi
Ok, thanks for the clarification. In my system the video card it is a VGABIOS Flashed Card (so no PPC flashed one). In my case if an Intel Video Card should exists I can test it. VGABios apart, there no need for special PPC/MIPS/Whatever video card because OpenFirmware does not initialize the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-02-18 Thread Gianluca Renzi
I've just googled and I've found my video baord can support up to OpenGL 3.3. So I suppose the libGL in the Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS has the 3.3 support, so the board. Maybe the message referring to shaders is for another issue. But I had the same even in Kicad 4 shipped with Ubuntu 16.04 PPC and even

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-02-18 Thread Gianluca Renzi
Haha, thanks! On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 11:12 AM Tomasz Wlostowski < tomasz.wlostow...@cern.ch> wrote: > On 18/02/2019 10:54, Gianluca Renzi wrote: > > With OpenGL it says "Cannot link shaders" or something similar, but I > > suppose it is a limit of my OpenGL video card support. > > It looks like

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-02-18 Thread Gianluca Renzi
Yes, it is working good. At least with the defaults. I have a ATI Radeon HD 4670 PCI-Express video card. The 3d viewer it working blazing fast and the pcb editor it works fine with Cairo and default. With OpenGL it says "Cannot link shaders" or something similar, but I suppose it is a limit of my

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-02-18 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
On 18/02/2019 11:14, Gianluca Renzi wrote: > I am using readon driver. The opensource one. It supports only a part of OpenGL standard if it fails to compile a simple shader (and the Cairo canvas works fast only for very small PCB designs and the 3D viewer doesn't use shaders). IIRC only Intel

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-02-18 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
On 18/02/2019 10:54, Gianluca Renzi wrote: > With OpenGL it says "Cannot link shaders" or something similar, but I > suppose it is a limit of my OpenGL video card support. It looks like OpenGL doesn't really work on your machine. I guess it's the open source driver "limitations" because ATI/AMD

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-02-18 Thread Jean-Samuel Reynaud
Hi, According to the user that push to me that patch (Gianluca Renzi, a user of the https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/ project), It's working correctly and 3D look to be fast. So I assume that it's correct in term of OpenGL configuration... Regards, Le 18/02/2019 à 10:23, Tomasz Wlostowski a

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-02-18 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
On 17/02/2019 20:47, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > Yes but I haven't heard back from Tom. Since this is primarily his > code, I would like his input before I merge the PPC64 patch. As I said in a similar thread about MIPS support, I'm not opposed to merge this, I'm just wondering if this PPC64

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-02-17 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Yes but I haven't heard back from Tom. Since this is primarily his code, I would like his input before I merge the PPC64 patch. Cheers, Wayne On 2/17/2019 2:25 PM, Jean-Samuel Reynaud wrote: > Is it possible to integrate that patch on rc2? > > Thanks.  > > Le lun. 11 févr. 2019 à 18:18,

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-02-17 Thread Jean-Samuel Reynaud
Is it possible to integrate that patch on rc2? Thanks. Le lun. 11 févr. 2019 à 18:18, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit : > Nevermind. I see you are just merging the PPC assembly code into > libcontext.cpp which already has the Boost license. > > On 2/11/2019 11:14 AM, Jean-Samuel Reynaud wrote: > > Hi

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-02-11 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Nevermind. I see you are just merging the PPC assembly code into libcontext.cpp which already has the Boost license. On 2/11/2019 11:14 AM, Jean-Samuel Reynaud wrote: > Hi > > As other arch on those files it was generated using : > https://github.com/twlostow/libcontext > > So for me it's

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-02-11 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 2/11/2019 11:00 AM, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > On 11.02.19 16:39, Jean-Samuel Reynaud wrote: > >> Please find attached a patch to adding missing support for Linux >> platform on arch PPC and PPC64. >> It's proposed by an external user who need that... > > Looks promising, but needs a

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-02-11 Thread Jean-Samuel Reynaud
Hi As other arch on those files it was generated using : https://github.com/twlostow/libcontext So for me it's exactly same copyright statement. Le 11/02/2019 à 17:00, Simon Richter a écrit : > Hi, > > On 11.02.19 16:39, Jean-Samuel Reynaud wrote: > >> Please find attached a patch to adding

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-02-11 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 11.02.19 16:39, Jean-Samuel Reynaud wrote: > Please find attached a patch to adding missing support for Linux > platform on arch PPC and PPC64. > It's proposed by an external user who need that... Looks promising, but needs a copyright statement. If it is from Boost, we can include

[Kicad-developers] Kicad support for Linux on PPC

2019-02-11 Thread Jean-Samuel Reynaud
Dear all, Please find attached a patch to adding missing support for Linux platform on arch PPC and PPC64. It's proposed by an external user who need that... Regards, Message transféré Sujet : Re: Kicad 5 PPA Date : Mon, 4 Feb 2019 13:18:24 +0100 De :Gianluca