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[James King <jlking3@xxxxxxxxx>]

The source package I tried unsuccessfully (I'm very new at this, so I'm
sure someone else will have a better chance at success) to compile is at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xxxterm/files/xombrero-1.5.0.tgz/download

There are anonymous source packages available at
https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/xombrero#xombrero_resources, but I
don't know how or if they're different from the above package.


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On 05/27/2013 07:57 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> (1) On a local Ubuntu/Lubuntu/Debian machine, do
>
>   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
>
> and then copy the file /usr/share/openbios/openbios-ppc (use scp, or
> filezilla, or whatever you prefer!) up to the big server in the sky :)
>
> (2) Alternatively, you could grab the .deb onto the CentOS machine and
> extract it there, doing something like
>
>   ar x openbios-ppc_1.0+svn1060-1_all.deb
>   tar zxf data.tar.gz
>
> The BIOS is now at usr/share/openbios/openbios-ppc (note: this path is
> local to where you typed the commands, *not* /usr/...) so you can copy
> it from there to whereever you think it needs to be :)
>
> > If this is possible,
>
> It is, I just did it on an RH server from work as a test :)
>
> > ... 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).
>
> Well, maybe.  Emulation can slow things by very large factors (like 10x
> or 20x).  And compiling a complex browser like Firefox takes a long time
> (hours) on real (non-emulated) hardware... I know xombrero is smaller
> and lighter, but... we'll have to see.  Anyway, the above two approaches
> should get you the PPC BIOS on a RedHat/CentOS server, pick whichever
> method you prefer :)
>
> > But, as I said on there, this stuff is beyond my limited capabilities.
>
> You're a trained RHCE... you can do this :)
>
> Meanwhile, I'll dig out my recalcitrant borrowed iBook G4, and see what
> I can get it to do for me.  I've just never solved or even fully
> understood the (nVidia) video issues it has.  But I can probably install
> Raring server well enough to ssh into it, which should be fine for using
> it as a PPC build machine for xombrero.
>
> Once I have that... where exactly *is* the xombrero source package we
> want to build?
>
> Jonathan
>
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