Re: Please test Firefox on ppc64
Hello Adrian,
On 8/31/23 3:06 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Thanks to the efforts of Debian's Firefox maintainer, the Firefox package
> is building again on ppc64 (big-endian) the first time in a long period.
>
> However, we don't know whether Firefox actually works on 64-bit Big-Endian
> PowerPC.
>
> Can anyone running Debian on ppc64 please give it a try?
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
>
On a PowerMac G5 with 8 GB memory, I updated to the latest Debian SID,
then I installed firefox ("apt-get install firefox"). It had a
segmentation fault when I ran it from the command line (Firefox did not
automatically run when I clicked on the Web Browser icon in xfce4).
I wasn't able to use vmlinux-6.4.0-4-powerpc64, since that kernel
doesn't support nVidia cards (I used a custom 6.5.1 kernel that worked).
-Stan
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