Phase out 32bit ppc due to bugfix and maintenance burden

[Christian Zigotzky]

On 11.05.2014 16:20, Al Dunsmuir wrote:
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>> We have Radeon HD 4000, 5000, 6000, and 7000 in our A1-X1000 (Nemo
>> boards). They have enough capabilities for new desktops.
> Those are covered by the Radeon 600 and later KMS and Mesa drivers, so
> should work well (except for ppc/ppc64 specific issues).
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> That  means  LXDE, XCFE, Mate and Gnome 3 at least should be viable. I
> do not have have any personal KDE experience.
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> The  Nemo  boards are ppc64, and I saw on the blog you referenced that
> you  have  the  3.14  Kernel  running.  What are you using as the boot
> loader, and what distribution?
We boot our Linux distributions with the Common Firmware Environment 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Firmware_Environment). For example:

CFE> setenv bootargs "root=/dev/sdb2"
CFE> boot -elf -noints -fatfs cf0:vmlinux-3.9.8.1-opensuse

The Common Firmware Environment offers a boot menu. You can simply add 
entries, to boot Linux distributions from the menu.

The following Linux distributions work on the Nemo board:

- Debian 6, 7, and Sid
- Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS, 12.04.4 LTS, Lubuntu 14.04 LTS, and the Ubuntu 
Live Remix DVD
- openSUSE 11.1, 12.3, and 13.1
- Fedora 17
- Gentoo
- CRUX PPC
- Red Ribbon RC6
- MintPPC 11
- SliTaz PPC Linux

Linux kernel: 2.6.38, 2.6.39, 3.5.7, 3.8.7, 3.9.0, 3.9.8.1 (openSUSE 
kernel), 3.10.0, 3.10.3 (Ubuntu kernel), 3.10.13, 3.10.15 (Live Ubuntu 
Remix DVD kernel), 3.11.0, 3.12.0, 3.12.5, 3.13.11 (Ubuntu longterm 
kernel), and 3.14.2 with "PR" KVM support. In development: 3.15.

RadeonHD 4000, 5000, 6000 series support: WORKS WITH 3D ACCELERATION
RadeonHD 7000 series support: WORKS WITHOUT 3D ACCELERATION
HDAudio 7.1 Driver: WORKS
PA Semi Network Driver: WORKS
3D acceleration: WORKS (Mesa 8.0.X - 9.1.X). For the new distributions 
you need the unofficial Mesa packages 
(http://www.supertuxkart-amiga.de/amiga/mesalib-unofficial.html).

Screenshots: http://www.supertuxkart-amiga.de/amiga/x1000.html



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