Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

[Peter Saisanas <psaisanas@gmail.com>]

It probably affects everyone trying to build a BE 64bit PPC kernel, 
perhaps others as well.
I don't have a Power 8 running LE 64bit...
But If anyone would like to donate one and pay my power bill, by all 
means ill give it a try :)

Its a bit of a chore downgrading to binutils 2.25-5 every time I build a 
kernel.
Not sure how versions of binutils > 2.25-5 ever left the sid repo and 
into testing.

Would be great if testing repo's downgraded to binutils 2.25-5 :)
But then again, only the hardcore devs running sid then would probably 
notice the bugs.

Alas, It has been reported quite a while ago.... Just wait and see for 
the fix I guess!

Cheers,
Peter

On 07/02/16 08:42, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 07:52:37AM +1100, Peter Saisanas wrote:
> > Hi Clive,
> >
> > Glad you got your G5 up and running!
> >
> > Regarding my config, currently am running 4.5.0-rc2 kernel, xfce
> > desktop and on Debian stretch (testing) repo's.
> >
> > As a side note, on the testing repo's, the only package that I
> > personally have noticed that has broken and affected me recently is
> > binutils, i.e. binutils versions currently >2.25-5 are not capable
> > of building kernels correctly (the kernel modules within the initrd
> > seem to not be built correctly).
> I'm also affected by this. I think that the problem will be fixed by:
>
> http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1602.0/05322.html
>
> Hopefully there will be soon an upload of fixed binutils to testing.
> Otherwise I'll have to compile and install binutils myself.
>
>      Gabriel