http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.ppc hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.ppc/1544 <pre>Hi here, are there any Pegasos users using Gentoo? Especially the hardware platform Pegasos II? I am looking for experiences about building an own kernel for this architecture. I compile them by myself for some years, but I think I could be better if I find someone else who is building kernels for Pegasos II. I am interested to exchange/talk about config files and so on. Unfortunately Gentoo seems to have dropped kernel support for Pegasos for some years. No installation disk contains a kernel for this hardware. Bye Johannes </pre> Johannes Geiss 2011-03-22T20:50:56 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.ppc/1543 <pre>Hi, folks I am trying to build QEMU 0.13/0.14 on a PS3 machine (Gentoo/PowerPC). But I got a gcc internal error. Here is the system information: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gcc (Gentoo 4.4.4-r2 p1.3, pie-0.4.5) Linux ps3 2.6.37-rc6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ And here is the compliation error: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CC i386-linux-user/translate.o gcc: Internal error: Killed (program cc1) Please submit a full bug report. See &lt;http://bugs.gentoo.org/&gt; for instructions. make[1]: *** [translate.o] Error 1 make: *** [subdir-i386-linux-user] Error 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I saw that gentoo has qemu 0.14 in its protage. Do I miss something while building qemu? Thanks! Regards, chenwj </pre> 陳韋任 2011-02-23T06:31:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.ppc/1541 <pre>Hi all, AFAIK, some packages (e.g., dev-cpp/eigen) can use AltiVec vectorization only when -mabi=altivec is specified in GCC flags. Is it safe to use -mabi=altivec in global CFLAGS in make.conf? Does anybody know if the system will perform better or worse in average? </pre> Konstantin Tokarev 2010-12-02T14:50:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.ppc/1509 <pre>Hi, OK, I'm dead tired. I admit it - yaboot has kicked my butt this time around. Can anyone help? I did post this problem here 2-3 weeks ago but still haven't been able to solve the problem so I'm back to the well for another drink. The machine is the original 80GB PPC Mac Mini. I used to run Gentoo on it and it ran great for years so I know at one time yaboot worked just fine. For various reasons I hadn't updated it in a long, long time (2 years) and instead of trying to go through the Gentoo update process which is difficult after that much time I decided to just do a new install. I saved copies of my kernel config and etc/make.conf but unfortunately, being primarily an x86 guy didn't think to save yaboot.conf and fstab. I've now done 5 complete Gentoo installs, starting over from scratch in case something I was doing was messing things up but so far I cannot get the machine to boot. Every time, no matter what I do at install time, I get a message "Can't check if filesystem is mounted due to a missing mtab file" A somewhat out of focus screen shot is shown here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29328985&lt; at &gt;N03/5014227831 Generally speaking I'm following the Gentoo PPC install guide located here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml?part=1&amp;chap=10 I've tried both the yabootconfig method as well as manual route. Nothing works for me so far. THey both fail the same way. It's not in the photo but all the way through the boot the kernel calls the hard drives /dev/hda so I'm assuming that's correct in fstab. The kernel is 2.6.34-gentoo-r2 and the kernel config file is attached. ext3 is built into the kernel so that shouldn't be a problem. I built the kernel using the older 2.6.31 kernel config I saved. As a _hardware_ test I reinstalled the old OS X that came with the machine and it boots fine. I blew it away and installed Ubuntu 10.04 for the PPC and it boots fine, but Ubuntu uses and initrc which I've never used before with Gentoo. (And why on this machine as the hardware is fixed has kernel drivers.) I'm a long time Gentoo user. The main Gentoo install seems to work fine on this machine. As best I can tell it's only the yaboot stuff not booting that's holding me up from using this little machine again. Can anyone see what I've done wrong? Thanks, Mark livecd ~ # mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo livecd ~ # mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc livecd ~ # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev livecd ~ # mount -o bind /sys /mnt/gentoo/sys livecd ~ # chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash livecd / # env-update livecd / # source /etc/profile livecd / # export PS1="(chroot) $PS1" (chroot) livecd / # cat /etc/yaboot.conf boot=/dev/hda2 #device=/pci&lt; at &gt;f4000000/ata-6&lt; at &gt;d/disk&lt; at &gt;0: device=hd: timeout=30 install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot image=/boot/kernel-2.6.34-gentoo-r1 label=Gentoo-2.6.34-r1 partition=4 root=/dev/hda4 read-only (chroot) livecd / # mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda /dev/hda # type name length base ( size ) system /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 &lt; at &gt; 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map /dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600 &lt; at &gt; 64 (800.0k) NewWorld bootblock /dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 2097152 &lt; at &gt; 1664 ( 1.0G) Linux swap /dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 154202672 &lt; at &gt; 2098816 ( 73.5G) Linux native Block size=512, Number of Blocks=156301488 DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 (chroot) livecd / # cat /etc/fstab /dev/hda4 / ext3 noatime 0 1 /dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 (chroot) livecd / # ybin -v ybin: Finding OpenFirmware device path to `/dev/hda2'... ybin: Installing first stage bootstrap /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot onto /dev/hda2... ybin: Installing primary bootstrap /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot onto /dev/hda2... ybin: Installing /etc/yaboot.conf onto /dev/hda2... ybin: Setting attributes on ofboot... ybin: Setting attributes on yaboot... ybin: Setting attributes on yaboot.conf... ybin: Blessing /dev/hda2 with Holy Penguin Pee... ybin: Updating OpenFirmware boot-device variable in nvram... (chroot) livecd / # ls -al /boot/kernel* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5547992 Sep 22 11:06 /boot/kernel-2.6.34-gentoo-r1 (chroot) livecd / # exit exit livecd ~ # umount /mnt/gentoo/proc /mnt/gentoo/dev /mnt/gentoo/sys /mnt/gentoo livecd ~ # livecd ~ # </pre> Mark Knecht 2010-09-22T22:59:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.ppc/1508 <pre>Hi, Sorry for a semi-cross post between the yaboot list and Gentoo-ppc-users. I'm hoping to get this worked out today. I had trouble a week ago getting a new Gentoo PPC install to boot on my Mac Mini so for kicks I tried Ubuntu which booted fine. I'd like to get back to running Gentoo and I'm wondering what information I should retain from my Ubuntu installation. The new Gentoo install is back on the Mac Mini and completely up to date, so if I can work out the booting issue I should be good to go. I have not emerge yaboot as of yet as I don't want to break Ubuntu until the last moment if possible. To boot do I need anything beyond the info contained in the Ubuntu yaboot.conf, the hard drive partitioning and fstab to get Gentoo working? That's should be enough to somehow construct things correctly in Gentoo, correct? Also, the Ubuntu install used an initrd. I presume this is because their one-size-fits-all approach probably requires drivers to boot a lot of different machines. Previously when I had this Mac Mini running Gentoo I didn't use one. I don't need to, correct? (Assuming I can find and build in the right drivers?) Is there anything about yaboot vs grub that makes it prefer an initrd? For now I used the Ubuntu .config for my Gentoo kernel and figured I'd trim it down later after I get the machine at least booting. Thanks, Mark mark&lt; at &gt;MacMini:~$ cat /etc/yaboot.conf ## yaboot.conf generated by the Ubuntu installer ## ## run: "man yaboot.conf" for details. Do not make changes until you have!! ## see also: /usr/share/doc/yaboot/examples for example configurations. ## ## For a dual-boot menu, add one or more of: ## bsd=/dev/hdaX, macos=/dev/hdaY, macosx=/dev/hdaZ boot=/dev/hda2 device=/pci&lt; at &gt;f4000000/ata-6&lt; at &gt;d/disk&lt; at &gt;0: partition=3 root=/dev/hda3 timeout=50 install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot enablecdboot image=/boot/vmlinux label=Linux read-only initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="quiet splash" image=/boot/vmlinux.old label=old read-only initrd=/boot/initrd.img.old append="quiet splash" mark&lt; at &gt;MacMini:~$ mark&lt; at &gt;MacMini:~$ cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier # for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name # devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # &lt;file system&gt; &lt;mount point&gt; &lt;type&gt; &lt;options&gt; &lt;dump&gt; &lt;pass&gt; proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 # / was on /dev/hda3 during installation UUID=3d688258-e950-4dd7-87cb-48fa887bb493 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # swap was on /dev/hda4 during installation UUID=a56e05b7-6e4a-4239-83a2-df7e7115a9e8 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sda1 /media/USB1/video ext2 rw 0 0 mark&lt; at &gt;MacMini:~$ mark&lt; at &gt;MacMini:~$ sudo mac-fdisk /dev/hda /dev/hda Command (? for help): p /dev/hda # type name length base ( size ) system /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 &lt; at &gt; 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map /dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap untitled 2048 &lt; at &gt; 2048 ( 1.0M) NewWorld bootblock /dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 39061504 &lt; at &gt; 4096 ( 18.6G) Linux native /dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 3905536 &lt; at &gt; 39065600 ( 1.9G) Linux swap /dev/hda5 Apple_Free Extra 1984 &lt; at &gt; 64 (992.0k) Free space /dev/hda6 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 gentoo 41943040 &lt; at &gt; 42971136 ( 20.0G) Linux native /dev/hda7 Apple_Free Extra 71387312 &lt; at &gt; 84914176 ( 34.0G) Free space Block size=512, Number of Blocks=156301488 DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 Command (? for help): </pre> Mark Knecht 2010-09-12T16:53:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.ppc/1494 <pre>Hi all, I have a Mac Mini that I've used for the last couple of years. I was trying to get it up to date but at some point it failed with a message about the main root partition not being an ext2 filesystem. I took the opportunity to rebuild the machine from scratch, at this point twice, but I continue to get the same message. I'm trying to determine if something about the machine is completely hosed and the machine will never work again or if it's just some problem I'm having. In these rebuiilds I went the direction of completely wiping the hard drive and starting from scratch. I used mac-fdisk, hit 'i', had only the Apple partition map, and then created the next 3 partitions as per the install guide. The installs (both of them) went cleanly and I didn't seem to have any problems running yabootconfig as far as I can tell. No complaints from the software except for my typing a path to the kernel incorrectly a couple of times. Once I got that right it seemed to finish and created the yaboot.conf file below. When I attempt to boot the system finds the kernel, does all the early boot stuff, says it finds /dev/hda and /dev/hda, then it starts the init stuff with the green '*' and [OK] on the right until it wants to mount the root partition. At that point it tells me the partition is wrong, not ext2, and quits. I don't understand how the partition can be incorrect if it's good enough to find the kernel to boot. Can someone set me right on what I might be doing incorrectly here. If the info below isn't enough let me know what you need. Thanks, Mark livecd ~ # mac-fdisk /dev/hda /dev/hda Command (? for help): p /dev/hda # type name length base ( size ) system /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 &lt; at &gt; 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map /dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600 &lt; at &gt; 64 (800.0k) NewWorld bootblock /dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 2097152 &lt; at &gt; 1664 ( 1.0G) Linux swap /dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 154202672 &lt; at &gt; 2098816 ( 73.5G) Linux native Block size=512, Number of Blocks=156301488 DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 Command (? for help): q livecd ~ # livecd ~ # mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo/ livecd ~ # mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc livecd ~ # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev livecd ~ # chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash livecd / # env-update livecd / # source /etc/profile livecd / # export PS1="(chroot) $PS1" (chroot) livecd / # ls -al /boot/ total 5064 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 28 16:51 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Aug 31 10:17 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 22 03:50 .keep lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Aug 28 15:23 boot -&gt; . -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5195929 Aug 31 09:31 kernel-2.6.34-gentoo-r1 (chroot) livecd / # (chroot) livecd / # cat /etc/yaboot.conf ## yaboot.conf generated by yabootconfig 1.0.8 ## ## run: "man yaboot.conf" for details. Do not make changes until you have!! ## ## For a dual-boot menu, add one or more of: ## bsd=/dev/hdaX, macos=/dev/hdaY, macosx=/dev/hdaZ boot=/dev/hda2 device=/pci&lt; at &gt;f4000000/ata-6&lt; at &gt;d/disk&lt; at &gt;0: partition=4 root=/dev/hda4 timeout=30 install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot image=/boot/kernel-2.6.34-gentoo-r1 label=Linux read-only (chroot) livecd / # </pre> Mark Knecht 2010-08-31T19:07:30 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.ppc/1487 <pre>I was going to download a new iso today. My old PowerPC Mac Mini needs to be rebuilt and it's so far out of date I figured I'd just do it from scratch. Anyway, it seems that all the other architectures have fairly recent iso image dates while the PowerPC seems to be a year old. http://mirrors.kernel.org/gentoo/releases/ppc/autobuilds/current-iso/ Or maybe this is just a date problem on the files or something. - Mark </pre> Mark Knecht 2010-08-26T00:31:31 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.ppc/1486 <pre>Dear list, Would like to enlist some assistance with an install on an IBM 9112-265 Intellistation. Have followed the liveCD install without many problems. Have gotten to the yaboot configuration and attempted to configure and have dd'd the kernel file rev 32r7 to the sda1 1meg partition. Upon reboot the system fails to find the kernel file and boot. When I have rebooted on the liveCD again and recieved the prompt to work with i have attempted to try and mount the sda3 root partition from the original install. I presume because there is only the LiveCD /etc/fstab with tempfs entries in it i cannot mount my real root partition and the system knows nothing of the original parttitioned disk from the install. Could someone direct me on what action to take to mount the original partitions such that i can edit the yaboot config file and achieve a successful boot from scsi disk. or can someone please instruct on how to set up yaboot config correctly such that i can reinstall the lot and get the bootloader correct. Thanks in advance. JCrittall </pre> John Crittall 2010-05-05T15:46:11 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.ppc/1484 <pre>Hi, Platform: IBM JS20 Blade Centre Gentoo Linux PPC64 installed http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc64.xml 64 bit userland. I want to bootp JS20 blades using a yaboot.chrp sitting on a tftp server. Bootp and tftp file serving are working, i.e the client successfully retrieves the yaboot.chrp and yaboot.conf BUT the client then ignores my yaboot.conf settings and tries to download vmlinux and root.bin, instead of vmlinux8 and fs.gz as described in my yaboot.conf. I am using yaboot-static as described in the Gentoo manual. The copy of yaboot.chrp on the tftp server came from: /usr/lib/yaboot/ yaboot.chrp as described in the Gentoo manual. My yaboot.conf on the atftp server looks like this: timeout=6000 init-message="\nWelcome to a network booted Gentoo installer service node\n\n" default=test image=enet:vmlinux8 root=/dev/ram initrd=enet:fs.gz append="ramdisk_size=16384 console=ttyS0 console=tty0" label=test read-only The yaboot.conf sits on the atftp server along with the client's kernel, and read only root filesystem, i.e.: /tftpboot/etc/01-00-11-25-ca-21-10 -&gt; yaboot.conf /tftpboot/fs.gz /tftpboot/ibmpower -&gt; yaboot.chrp /tftpboot/vmlinux8 When I bootp a blade, I can see that the yaboot.chrp is downloaded successfully (the dhcp next-server entry to ibmpower works). Also the yaboot config from /etc/01-00-11-25-ca-21-10 is pulled down to the client. But looking in the tftp server logs I see that the yaboot.chrp then tries to download vmlinux and root.bin. My yaboot.conf (above) references vmlinux8 and fs.gz. As a test I symlinked vmlinux -&gt; vmlinux8 and root.bin -&gt; fs.gz. The tftp server log shows that the files are downloaded to the client (although an issue prevents the client from booting) My question is this: Why is yaboot.chrp ignoring my yaboot.conf settings and how can I get this configured correctly from a 64 bit userland? I am thinking to install another blade with Gentoo PPC64 32bit userland, to see if I can play around with yaboot configuration but this feels a bit excessive. Any ideas? In case you are wondering, the kernel that I bootp is intended to be a sevice module that installs Gentoo on the blades automatically. Thank you in advance. regards Garry </pre> Garry Smith 2009-12-07T12:02:12 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.ppc/1477 <pre>hi! I want to install Gentoo on a PowerPC machine, but I can't find a bootable ISO. I've tried install-powerpc-minimal-20090809 and install-powerpc-universal-2008.0 but none of those files boot. where can I find a bootable Gentoo image, or how can I make it bootable? see you, -- Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1] Sent from Campinas, SP, Brazil </pre> Crístian Viana 2009-09-05T17:05:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.ppc/1475 <pre>does anyone know why the battery monitor/icon for the xfce4 dock doesnt work anymore ? i noticed it stopped working a while ago but didnt really missing it. ( mostly leave it plugged in lately) matt </pre> mattmatteh< at >mac.com 2009-09-02T23:55:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.ppc/1474 <pre>i have 2 ibook g4 here. the older is 1 Ghz, powerbook6,5 and the newer one is 1.333Ghz, powerbook6,7. i updated to kernel 2.6.30-gentoo-r4 on both and dma does not work on the older but works on the newer. used a default `make pmac32_defconfig` i even compared output of `lspci -k` and the same modules are loaded for 2.6.27-gentoo-r7. does anyone have dma working on an older model ibook ? should i be using the newer scsi emulation ? i looked but didnt see the drivers. thanks matt </pre> mattmatteh< at >mac.com 2009-09-02T01:09:34 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.ppc/1473 <pre>Hi! My name is Jean-Francis Roy and I've got Gentoo up-and-running on a Sony PS3. I plan to use it to do scientific calculus using the libraries given on the IBM Cell SDK, but I run into problems using them. My questions are: - Is anybody providing ebuilds for them? I found a bug report about those but it was close with a wontfix resolution. I emailed the originator of the bug and he said he switched to another distribution that provided those libraries. - Have anybody got libraries like BLAS and LAPACK up-and-running with the bindings to other languages? I succeded in binding BLAS to GSL (GNU Scientific Library) but I get no chance with numpy (Python), multiplying big matrices give me an error message from the ALF library, saying that "alf_task_create" returned an error. I can't find out what is the problem... Thanks a lot for you time! Jean-Francis Roy Laval University Grad Student </pre> Jean-Francis Roy 2009-08-07T04:36:39 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.linux.gentoo.ppc