<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>On Sun, 2021-11-21 at 16:21 +0100, Abou Al Montacir wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Hi David,</div><div><br></div><div>Sorry I got a busy week.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes Abou, I could see that !</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div>On Mon, 2021-11-15 at 18:50 +1100, David Bannon wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On Sun, 2021-11-14 at 16:40 +0100, Abou Al Montacir wrote:</div><div><br></div><pre>Version: 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u1</pre><div><br></div><div>Hmm, against my 1:4.2 .....</div></blockquote><div>Should not matter too much</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Further checking indicted to me that for what ever reason, using the qemu COW always delivered a 100%cpu usage. I kept playing, without using a backing file ,things worked far better. My Ubuntu 2004 is due to be replaced and I am tempted to move to Debian due to mounting dissatisfaction with Ubuntu but, 15 years, big call ....</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div>So, do I assume that the sparc emulation does not do a GUI interface ?</div></blockquote><div>Yes, or needs advanced QEMU knowledge I don't have.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So, yes, thats more or less killed off my idea of testing my app on SPARC, sorry to trouble you.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm going anyway to check ppc64el for doublecmd on a porter machine, so I may test on it rather than building a qemu image.</div><div><br></div><div>I can build a viable ppc64el vm here so I can do that test for you if you like ? Right now it has a FPC and Lazarus direct from FPC themselves rather than a Debian install but I can 'fix' that.</div></blockquote><div>It ise preferable to use Debian packaged FPC in order to build for Debian. Otherwise you package may FTBFS</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, I understand that. But at the time I did not fully understand the Lazarus/powerpc64 issues and needed, quickly, to test my app. Detailed in another message addressed to bug #985946. </div><div><br></div><div>As I have also kept a basic powerpc64 image, easy to bring that up and use the debian install now I believe.</div><div><br></div><pre>Davo</pre></body></html>