On Jan 27, 2015, at 2:40 PM, Colin Watson cjwat...@debian.org wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:17:04AM -0600, Mark wrote: >> On a powerpc g4 (mac) system I am trying to switch from yaboot to grub. >> The provided image always faults 8 bytes in. Looking at the patches for >> grub I see "ppc64el-disable-vsx.patch" >> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grub/grub.git/tree/debian/patches/ppc64el-disable-vsx.patch?id=debian/2.02.beta2-20 >> is causing the problem with the "mtmsrd" instruction. >> >> I think the solution is to not apply this patch for 32-bit builds. > > Thanks. I prefer not to apply patches conditionally. However, it > should be sufficient to use the mtmsr instruction rather than mtmsrd; > the bit we're trying to change is in the bottom 32 bits of the MSR in > any case. > > Please could you test version 2.02~beta2-21 when it becomes available in > unstable (I'm preparing the upload now), and report how it behaves for > you? > > Thanks, > > -- > Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] >
I have confirmed that the updated build fixes this problem. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
