Gentoo Archives: gentoo-ppc-user

From: Janne Karjanlahti <janne.karjanlahti@×××××××××.net>
To: gentooppc-user@g.o
Subject: [gentooppc-user] Re: gentooppc-user digest, Vol 1 #101 - 4 msgs
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:36:41
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1 Saas nähdä meneekö ihan puihin, mutta rupesin asentelemaan OpenBSD:tä
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7 gentooppc-user-request@g.o kirjoittaa tiistaina, 22. lokakuuta
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25 > Today's Topics:
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27 > 1. RE: Excessive disk use? (marciot)
28 > 2. RE: Re: Success: Freeswan on PPC (Was: What's special about
29 > "sys-kernel/ppc-sources"...) (marciot)
30 > 3. Re: Excessive disk use? (Calum Selkirk)
31 > 4. Strange entry in /proc/cpuinfo (Ben Ricker)
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35 > Message: 1
36 > Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:42:45 -0600
37 > From: marciot <marciot@×××××××××××××××.edu>
38 > To: Mark Guertin <gerk@g.o>
39 > Cc: gentooppc-user@g.o
40 > Subject: RE: [gentooppc-user] Excessive disk use?
41 >
42 >> Actually read the make.conf again... if you are using gcc 3.2 based
43 >> setup then you should NOT use mcpu with that machine.
44 >
45 > Yeah. You're correct. For some odd reason yesterday thought I had a
46 > G3, even
47 > though I know it isn't the case. Wishful thinking, I suppose :)
48 >
49 > But I do uncomment:
50 >
51 > CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fsigned-char"
52 >
53 > Right? This one was commented out before -- I had no CFLAGS at all (the
54 > make.conf file ships without any by default). Should I be concerned?
55 >
56 > Marcio Luis Teixeira
57 >
58 >
59 >
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61 >
62 > Message: 2
63 > Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:52:32 -0600
64 > From: marciot <marciot@×××××××××××××××.edu>
65 > To: Christophe Tournery <christophe.tournery@××××.ch>
66 > Cc: gentooppc-user@g.o
67 > Subject: RE: [gentooppc-user] Re: Success: Freeswan on PPC (Was:
68 > What's special about "sys-kernel/ppc-sources"...)
69 >
70 >> Well, if this might convince you to create a ppc-crypto-sources, I
71 >> have
72 >> also successfully compiled freeswan 1.98b against the default
73 >> ppc-sources
74 >> (2.4.19-r6). The only problem I had was when compiling the kernel
75 >> using
76 >> the makefile provided by freeswan. 'make menugo' did compile something
77 >> (took quite some time) but it failed after a while,
78 >
79 > I think this may have happened for me too. I forgot about it. The same
80 > work
81 > around worked for me, though I hadn't realized it was a workaround (I
82 > thought
83 > it was some network hickup or something :)
84 >
85 > However, I've not actually *tested* the install with a real VPN yet,
86 > so I
87 > can't comment on whether it is functional or not. The freeswan config
88 > and docs
89 > look like greek to me and I'm waiting on some more info from our
90 > network admin
91 > to figure out how to get this beast configured :)
92 >
93 > If anyone knows how to configure freeswan to interface with either a
94 > Cisco VPN
95 > 3000 concentrator, let me know :)
96 >
97 > Marcio Luis Teixeira
98 >
99 >
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102 >
103 > Message: 3
104 > From: "Calum Selkirk" <cselkirk@g.o>
105 > Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:48:06 +0200
106 > To: gentooppc-user@g.o
107 > Reply-To: Calum Selkirk <cselkirk@g.o>
108 > Subject: [gentooppc-user] Re: Excessive disk use?
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115 > * Marcio Luis Teixeira [marciot@×××××××××××××××.edu] [2002-10-21 01:52
116 > -0600]:
117 >
118 >> On Monday 21 October 2002 12:30 pm, Mark Guertin wrote:
119 >
120 >>> You don't have anything to worry about really, the default CFLAGS
121 >>> would be pretty much the same as the suggested cflags in make.conf
122 >>> in your case.
123 >>
124 >> The "make.conf" file suggests:
125 >>
126 >> CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=603e -mpowerpc-gfxopt -fsigned-char"
127 >>
128 >> (where I replaced 750 with 603e, as per the instructions)
129 >>
130 >> That line was commented out. You say that these are equivalent to the
131 >> defaults? I expected that the defaults would compile for the 601, no?
132 >> Is the "-02" option on by default? (where do I find these defaults?)
133 >
134 > The defaults can be found in:
135 >
136 > /usr/portage/profiles/defualt-ppc-1.4/make.defaults
137 >
138 > (for a 1.4-r1 release)
139 >
140 > The /etc/make.conf is simply a means whereby users can override the
141 > defaults.
142 >
143 > best
144 >
145 > cal
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163 > Message: 4
164 > From: Ben Ricker <bricker@×××××××.com>
165 > To: gentooppc-user@g.o
166 > Date: 22 Oct 2002 11:27:12 -0500
167 > Subject: [gentooppc-user] Strange entry in /proc/cpuinfo
168 >
169 > I have a PowerComputing PowerBase 240 with a Powerlogix Powerforce G4
170 > upgrade daughter card. I have seen some VERY slow compile times;
171 > mozilla
172 > took something like 10 hours to compile. I think the problem lies in
173 > kernel not recognizing the true CPU clock speed (I have it set at
174 > around
175 > 300MHz).
176 >
177 > Here is a cat of /proc/cpuinfo. Note the 60MHz clock speed! Anybody
178 > know
179 > what is up with this?
180 >
181 > processor : 0
182 > cpu : 7400, altivec supported
183 > temperature : 26-28 C (uncalibrated)
184 > clock : 60MHz
185 > revision : 2.9 (pvr 000c 0209)
186 > bogomips : 638.97
187 >
188 > total bogomips : 638.97
189 > machine : Power Macintosh
190 > motherboard : AAPL,e407 MacRISC
191 > detected as : 35 (Alchemy)
192 > pmac flags : 00000000
193 > memory : 160MB
194 > pmac-generation : OldWorld
195 >
196 > Ben Ricker
197 >
198 >
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