253866 – sys-apps/hal PMU support for PPC

Bug 253866 - sys-apps/hal PMU support for PPC

Summary: sys-apps/hal PMU support for PPC

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	PPC Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Blocks:	253868
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Reported:	2009-01-05 15:52 UTC by Christian Schmitt
Modified:	2009-01-05 17:59 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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patch for the ebuild to enable PMU (hal-0.5.11-pmu.patch,702 bytes, patch) 2009-01-05 15:54 UTC, Christian Schmitt	Details \| Diff
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Description Christian Schmitt 2009-01-05 15:52:34 UTC

This patch enables PMU support for HAL on PPC machines. PMU is the power management unit found on many PPC machines (iBook G4). Using the PMU is the right way on these machines (compared to using APM emulation).

Comment 1 Christian Schmitt 2009-01-05 15:54:10 UTC

Created attachment 177473 [details, diff]
patch for the ebuild to enable PMU

It should be applied to hal-0.5.11-r4 from the portage tree.

Comment 2 Tony Vroon (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-05 17:59:56 UTC

+*hal-0.5.11-r5 (05 Jan 2009)
+
+  05 Jan 2009; <chainsaw@gentoo.org> +hal-0.5.11-r5.ebuild:
+  Enable PMU support for PowerPC hardware, as suggested by Christian Schmitt
+  <chrschmitt@gmail.com> in bug #253866.