Ubuntu vs. Debian:
Since Phoronix seems to support Ubuntu best, I tried to stick with it.
Although its not officially supported, I tried to install Ubuntu 9.10 on my e500 core PPC. I was able to complete the base installation, but both aptitude and apt-get would fail with Illegal Instruction traps. It turns out that the issue was that the e500 core doesn't support the full PPC instruction set. The code must be compiled with the GCC gnuspe settings and I wasn't able to find an Ubuntu PPC repository with gnuspe settings.
I found a Debian (Lenny) PPC repository with gnuspe settings, so I installed Debian and it works very well! The Phoronix Test Suite installed on the Debian system perfectly. It runs in CLI mode just fine.
Phoronix Test Suite issues:
Although the Phoronix Test Suite framework works flawlessly, there are a few issues with some test profiles:
When installing the AIO-Stress test profile, PTS says that the external packages libaio-dev and libaio-devel must be installed first. I was able to install libaio-dev, but absolutely no Debian repository has a package called libaio-devel.
When installing the x11perf test profile, PTS says that the external packages xserver-xorg-development and xorg-devel must be installed first. No Debian repository has packages called xserver-xorg-development or xorg-devel.
When running the hdparm-read test profile the following error is generated:
/usr/share/phoronix-test-suite/pts-core/test-libraries/root-access.sh: /tmp/tmp.<sequence of 9 random alphabetic characters>: /bin/sh\n\n. /hdparm-read: bad interpreter: no such file or directory.
The geekbench test profile initially caused an infinite kernel loop. It probably can't run on an e500 core PPC system, unless it could be recompiled for it.
I'd like to run PTS in its GUI mode, but wasn't able to find a php5-gtk2 package for Debian. Could the Ubuntu php5-gtk2 package be made to work without too much manually intervention? Would compiling php5-gtk2 from source be a better option?
Thanks,
Ken Fuchs
Since Phoronix seems to support Ubuntu best, I tried to stick with it.
Although its not officially supported, I tried to install Ubuntu 9.10 on my e500 core PPC. I was able to complete the base installation, but both aptitude and apt-get would fail with Illegal Instruction traps. It turns out that the issue was that the e500 core doesn't support the full PPC instruction set. The code must be compiled with the GCC gnuspe settings and I wasn't able to find an Ubuntu PPC repository with gnuspe settings.
I found a Debian (Lenny) PPC repository with gnuspe settings, so I installed Debian and it works very well! The Phoronix Test Suite installed on the Debian system perfectly. It runs in CLI mode just fine.
Phoronix Test Suite issues:
Although the Phoronix Test Suite framework works flawlessly, there are a few issues with some test profiles:
When installing the AIO-Stress test profile, PTS says that the external packages libaio-dev and libaio-devel must be installed first. I was able to install libaio-dev, but absolutely no Debian repository has a package called libaio-devel.
When installing the x11perf test profile, PTS says that the external packages xserver-xorg-development and xorg-devel must be installed first. No Debian repository has packages called xserver-xorg-development or xorg-devel.
When running the hdparm-read test profile the following error is generated:
/usr/share/phoronix-test-suite/pts-core/test-libraries/root-access.sh: /tmp/tmp.<sequence of 9 random alphabetic characters>: /bin/sh\n\n. /hdparm-read: bad interpreter: no such file or directory.
The geekbench test profile initially caused an infinite kernel loop. It probably can't run on an e500 core PPC system, unless it could be recompiled for it.
I'd like to run PTS in its GUI mode, but wasn't able to find a php5-gtk2 package for Debian. Could the Ubuntu php5-gtk2 package be made to work without too much manually intervention? Would compiling php5-gtk2 from source be a better option?
Thanks,
Ken Fuchs
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