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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey,

keep the faith!

I've just had a report that PPC is working again for the first time since
before A1. What they think will get broken and fixed by accident is not a
pure science. They *think* that change xyz will affect abc, But until it is
unleashed into the wild; there is no 100% certainty. This is why I'm a fan
of the alphas, we get to test out things and the report back... the devs
have to take account that some of the flavours do use alphas; if at A2
things are still borked, it does give them a longer lead time than would be
the case if we went straight into final Beta :)

Regards,

Phill.


On 24 July 2013 01:16, Erick Brunzell <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  On 07/23/2013 06:06 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>
> Hi Lance,
>
>  I'd be most interested to know if the new kernel has made things better,
> or worse. If there is a regression, then caught soon enough; it can be
> flagged as one. Leave it too long and they will not look into it.
>
>  The new kernel for everyone was released today.... strike while the iron
> that forges the kernels is still hot!!! Full "it worked on this kit
> (hardware profile) at THIS time, it failed on kernel update at THIS time.
>
>  Having your full profile, if you have not already done so, is a really
> important thing for the devs. Apart from giving them all the information
> that they need, it shows willing.
>
>  What started out as the lubuntu PPC area is now requested by all testers
> across all flavours.... https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Hardware Perfect
> it is not, but as it says... it is the best (read as ONLY) thing we have.
>
>  Regards,
>
>  Phill.
>
>
> It's almost certainly a kernel problem. I just need to spend several hours
> pouring over the kernel changelogs to find out if this is intentional. Be
> patient and give me time, but I wouldn't be surprised if they dropped
> support for that hardware as it's gotten a bit more buggy for quite some
> time.
>
> ATM this just increases the test-load for everyone else because what I had
> set up will not work now for the i386 images. And my other test box has
> extremely limited disc space due to a network storage failure.
>
> When it rains it pours ;^/
>
> Right now I wish I hadn't crammed my Intel hardware into such a small case
> because if it was still in a normal tower I could swap some drives very
> quickly.
>
>
>
> On 23 July 2013 23:39, Erick Brunzell <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> First of all I do NOT expect anyone to try and figure out why this isn't
>> working before the release of our Alpha 2!
>>
>> But a large part of my i386 test suite is set up on this old hardware:
>>
>> VIA C7 CPU @ 1500MHz
>> VIA CN700/P4M800 Pro/P4M800 CE/VN800 Graphics [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 01)
>> VIA VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
>> Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
>> 1GB DDR2 RAM
>>
>> The problem seems to be that recent changes to the kernel dropped
>> support for that hardware (I just can't boot to a working screen) so
>> I'll be unable to complete a lot of the tests I'd planned on.
>>
>> We can look into the why and where for much later but please expect
>> decreased testing from me.
>>
>> I'll certainly adjust to this prior to Beta 1 but there is simply not
>> sufficient time for me to rebuild a box ATM.
>>
>> Lance
>>
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