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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jonathan,

in answer to how it passed at 12.04? I have no idea. I cannot find an
PPC-Server edition for 12.04. I am sure you have the link....

Main thing is now that I'm aware of a PPC-Server edition, we may as well do
the tests and get the little critter approved :)

Regards,

Phill.

On 2 October 2012 04:58, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 10/01/2012 07:16 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>
> > For server-ppc, what is needed is where the test cases are simply
> > wrong (such as check the processor you have) etc. and which are
> > applicable. Whilst I can try to do an install via qemu (and most
> > certainly will), what would really help is if you could point out the
> > glaring errors on the 'mandatory' and 'test once' cases. I can then
> > edit the ones with errors and remove any that are N/A for ppc. As
> > long as we get the new test suite done in time for the RC sequence,
> > and they all pass... server-ppc will pass.
>
> Right.  But virtualization is not new in 12.10 ... how was an
> Intel/AMD-specific test case like this successfully passed on PPC in
> 12.04 testing?  How did that happen?  I don't understand.
>
> From reading through the server testcases, I think the only one with a
> glaring PPC issue is the one I referred to in a recent email, SWI-011,
> the "Virtualization Host" one.
>
> Others may need some minor fixup (I'm seeing a default hostname of
> "new-host" where the test cases assume "ubuntu", for example), but these
> are trivial for any decent tester to figure out, and are probably not
> PPC-specific anyway.
>
> Meanwhile, if anyone has successfully got a 12.10 GUI Lubuntu working on
> PPC (G4) with an nVidia video card, please let me know the secret :)
>
> Jonathan
>
>


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