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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Uli,

at UDS-R they held a session to work out where kernel should be, how to get
grub to work etc. This is all timetabled in for 13.04. It will be
interesting to see how the new kernel behaves on PPC once it lands.

Regards,

Phill.

On 1 November 2012 09:55, UH <uhtlmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'd be willed to help testing, within my limited capabilities, obviously.
>
> For me, frankly 2 points are the most important for any future release:
>
> 1) Figure out the problem of No-SUSPEND & No-HIBERNATE (In my
> experience that's kernelrelated thing and not only limited to ppc but
> also for the amd64 version - for the later one i found a workaround)
>
> 2) The kernel-updates not going to the correct directories (cfr:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1918246&page=6 ). I'm
> suspecting that's due to the fact, that the update/install script is
> based on the grub-ones, where the symlinks are going to the topmost
> directory . . . May be, either the yaboot related scripts should be
> changed (if possible), that they behave like grub (no boot folder) or
> the update script should be adapted to yaboot configuration.
>
> These 2 points brought me to gave up to install lubuntu (12.04 as well
> as 12.10) to the internal hd of the PB (which is used by my wife as
> secondary machine) but Debian sid (it's kernel 3.2 based, suspend and
> hibernate work and kernel updates go where they should). It's a bit a
> pity, since in that way one stays behind with firefox (iceweasel now
> is at version 10) and creates problems with ubuntone, but OTOH it
> works
>
> On an externel firewire hd i can play around (may be with some limits
> since it's not sda but sdc i'm working on ... (?) ).
>
> Cheers, Uli
>
> 2012/11/1 Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hi Walter and Jackson,
> >
> > I've popped a new section in the 'test-case' tracker wiki area [1]. Once
> > UDS-R is over and before it goes crazy with new pre-alpha builds I'd
> like to
> > try and get as many as possible for PPC made applicable. We know it was a
> > 'mass convert' of test cases, some of which are totally inapplicable to
> PPC
> > and others are just darn wrong! As Jackson has already got to grips with
> > test cases I'm sure that you can sort out a "who is doing what" for the
> > work-load. Please feel free to ping me / email me with questions -
> allocate
> > tasks to me, etc.
> >
> > Jackson, if you want to add yourself to the PPC section, please do so!
> The
> > netboot one you wrote looks good to me & should be used as a template for
> > all netboots. We just need a bit of feedback on it before rolling it out.
> >
> > If any of the other PPC guys on L-QA want to help out on this, please use
> > this email thread for comments etc. so that we have one thread with all
> the
> > updates / progress on it.
> >
> > Thanks guys,
> >
> > Phill.
> > 1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/TestcaseUpdates
> >
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