[Bug 876881] Re: does e2fsprogs work on powerpc?

[Colin Watson]

Ted: Yes, I can't say I'm sure why e2fsprogs got involved there.  I
suspect nobody investigated terribly closely. :-(

Steve: I tried to look into this today, and discovered that I'm unable
to run an installer test on powerpc right now because pata-macio is
missing from the relevant udeb so the installer can't talk to any CD or
disk devices, at least in my qemu configuration.  I'll send a patch to
the kernel team for that, and retry this test for alpha-2.

** Changed in: e2fsprogs (Ubuntu Precise)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: e2fsprogs (Ubuntu Precise)
    Milestone: precise-alpha-1 => precise-alpha-2

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Title:
  does e2fsprogs work on powerpc?

Status in “e2fsprogs” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “e2fsprogs” source package in Precise:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Since karmic, the e2fsprogs udeb has been built with -O2 instead of
  -Os on powerpc because of bug #450214, which was presumed at the time
  to be a toolchain bug.  It doesn't look like a bug was ever filed
  against the toolchain for this, and it doesn't appear the issue has
  ever been reported in Debian, so it's likely that whatever the issue
  was, it was transient and has since been resolved.

  However, with no information about what the toolchain bug actually
  *was*, we can't be sure of this without testing.

  I've dropped the -Os workaround in the latest merge of e2fsprogs from
  Debian.  We should retest at alpha-1 to see if the installer is usable
  on powerpc without this workaround.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: e2fsprogs 1.41.14-1ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Oct 17 14:28:00 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: e2fsprogs
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (23 days ago)

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