gmane.linux.gentoo.ppc

Are there any Pegasos users?

Johannes Geiss — 2011-03-22T20:50:56

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

Building QEMU on PS3 (Gentoo/PowerPC)

陳韋任 — 2011-02-23T06:31:51

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 <http://bugs.gentoo.org/> 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

-mabi=altivec in CFLAGS

Konstantin Tokarev — 2010-12-02T14:50:38

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?

yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

Mark Knecht — 2010-09-22T22:59:42

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 missin

What should I copy from Ubuntu

Mark Knecht — 2010-09-12T16:53:22

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

New install - Unable to get my ppc Mac Mini to boot the root partition

Mark Knecht — 2010-08-31T19:07:30

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 b

Gentoo ppc - still supported?

Mark Knecht — 2010-08-26T00:31:31

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

ppc install / bootloader problem.

John Crittall — 2010-05-05T15:46:11

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 bootload

yaboot-static is ignoring my yaboot.conf

Garry Smith — 2009-12-07T12:02:12

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.co

install ISO not bootable

Crístian Viana — 2009-09-05T17:05:25

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

xfce battery monitor hasnt worked in a while

2009-09-02T23:55:47

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

no dma on ibook with kernel 2.6.30-gentoo-r4

2009-09-02T01:09:34

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

IBM Cell SDK on PS3

Jean-Francis Roy — 2009-08-07T04:36:39

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