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Hi all, |
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I had a talk about the release with corsair last Friday and |
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tried to point out some things for ppc32 and ppc64. |
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Although ppc64 is able to use multilib, we would do separate |
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releases. Well, we could include two squashfs on the LiveCD |
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and boot separate kernels, but that will only stress our |
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mirrors as every ppc-user has to download stuff he (mostly) |
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does not need. |
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ppc32 prerelease LiveCDs will be ready soon (I just need to |
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run livecd-stage2 when I get genkernel to work properly ;)). |
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If it's possible we would like to mirror them like x86 and |
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let some users with brand-new Apple-hardware test them. Our |
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kernel will be 2.6.12 (I use that snapshot), as this one |
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gives much more support for new Apples. I will include two |
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or three kernels on the LiveCD: common Apple, Pegasos and |
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probably RS/6000. Still we need a confirmation if initramfs |
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works on Pegasos (I guess not, or only with the patch |
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plasmaroo had to create for the Itaniums). |
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ppc32 is missing a 2005.1-profile! This is urgent and must |
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be done soon, so that I can test it. Changes would be to |
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create profiles for G3, G4, Pegasos, rs6k and OldWorld. |
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Mostly some USE-Flags must be set or another default |
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bootloader. |
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ppc64 has a nice new profile, but it seems that there are |
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some hickups ;-) |
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We want to cut the support of too many stages and GRP-sets. |
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My aim is: |
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* ppc32-generic (ppc60x, G3/ppc75x) |
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* ppc32-altivec (G4/ppc74xx) |
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* ppc64 |
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That means stripping G3 and G5 ppc32 stages and GRP. The |
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difference between ppc-generic and G3 is too small that we |
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need separate stages for it. The main-difference on ppc32 |
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is altivec-enabled/-disabled what gives enormous performance |
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boosts. G5-ppc32-stages will also vanish, as ppc64 is able |
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to provide multilib-support, running 32/64-bit-userland with |
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a 64-bit-kernel, like on amd64. And so a 32-bit-only system |
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makes no sense. |
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My personal problem is that I had to switch from the Pegasos |
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to a PowerMac 533 as my release-build-machine. But somehow |
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that machine is not much slower than the Pegasos, so that I |
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think I can create the stages and LiveCD on my own (needs |
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about 14 hours for stage1-3). But I really need help in the |
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GRP-bulding. If we want to provide kde-meta, the machine |
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will need more than three days for a complete GRP build... |
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But I already talked to corsair that I may get an account on |
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his Dual-G5 and can build the stages in a chroot. Or I'll |
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come over to him for a cup of coffee (hey, he lives in my |
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10km-bicycle-radius! :-) ), while the GRP-set builds. |
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So far the status of ppc-release-building. If you have any |
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comments (I hope, I told everything correct about ppc64), |
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just reply to this message or reach me on IRC (when I'm |
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online ;) ). |
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Regards, Lars |
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Lars Weiler <pylon@g.o> +49-171-1963258 |
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Gentoo Linux PowerPC : Developer and Release Engineer |
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Gentoo Infrastructure : CVS Administrator |
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Gentoo Foundation : Trustee |
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