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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi jonathan,

owing to security issues (it is in the posting of my IRC chat) ppa will not
build PPC variants. As the ppc-bios is in .deb format, and my server runs
.yum it was suggested that the binary of ppc-bios could be extracted from a
debian based system and inserted into a yum based system. If this is
possible, then the issue of the existing processors being slow to compile
on in emulation should not be a major issue. (The dedi server [1] does have
a reasonable amount of CPU's behind it).

But, as I said on there, this stuff is beyond my limited capabilities.

Regards,

Phill.
1. 16G model of http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml

On 28 May 2013 03:05, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 05/27/2013 03:13 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>
> > ... do you fancy trying a build using virtualistaion?
>
> Tried, and my first try failed...  Following the info at
>
>   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Testing/PPC&Mac64
>
> I did (on a Ubuntu 10.04 amd64 desktop):
>
>   sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm qemu-kvm-extras
>   mkdir -p ~/qemu-ppc
>   cd ~/qemu-ppc
>   qemu-img create powerpc_hd.img -f qcow2 6G # no need for 20G
>   wget -c
>
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openbios-ppc/openbios-ppc_1.0+svn1060-1_all.deb
>   sudo dpkg -i openbios-ppc_1.0+svn1060-1_all.deb
>   qemu-system-ppc -cpu G4 -M mac99 -m 512 -bios
> /usr/share/openbios/openbios-ppc -cdrom
> /usr/local/isos/lubuntu-12.04-desktop-powerpc.iso -hda powerpc_hd.img
> -boot order=d &
>
> I end up with a busybox shell prompt in the qemu emulation window.  Not
> what I expected.  No time for more right now, off to play guitar for a
> couple of hours.  May try using the G4 ibook approach when I return.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>


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