Re: Official support Odroid hardware and other ARM development boards.

2014-02-28 Thread Martin Guy
[Re: Raspberry Pi GPU blob] On 27/02/2014, Eric Nelson eric.nel...@boundarydevices.com wrote: There's one key piece that's normally closed-source (the GPU), but there's an open-source alternative here: https://github.com/laanwj/etna_viv RPi Foundation have just (10 hours ago!) announced

Re: gcc armel status and armel architecture defaults

2014-01-13 Thread Martin Guy
On 13/01/2014, Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: +++ Matthias Klose [2014-01-13 05:51 +0100]: the gcc-4.9 in experimental fails to build while the one for armhf succeeds. If I remember correctly we had some issues with the arm soft float port already with gcc-4.7 and gcc-4.8. Are the armv4t

Re: Dropping support for the smallest armel machines

2013-06-26 Thread Martin Guy
+1 for maintaining iop32xx support. I bought and use one for debian development and offer it as a service to open-source developers. Keeping it running with standard stable and sid is essential to this. I also remember nslu2 being the whizzo machine for hackers On 25 June 2013 04:05, Chris

Re: Debian on thecus N2100

2013-04-13 Thread Martin Guy
On 12 April 2013 23:15, Brian Platt brianpl...@hotmail.com wrote: Yes this the way i've been doing it, I even did a new header on another 2100 i've got and the same thing. Hypothesis: it's the voltage levels Experiment: try it with a proper 12V RS232 serial port M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Please put me on your mailing list. I am looking for the image file (not the iso file) to write to an SD card. Preferably it would be the latest stable release (6.x). All the website I go to only

2013-04-10 Thread Martin Guy
I just had to laugh out loud at this! Thankyou Philip. M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: ARM port(s) BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Martin Guy
On 19 July 2012 19:35, Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: armel = First released with Lenny. Soft-float EABI, Software floating point assumed by default. v4t which also runs smaller-size thumb instruction set. Targeting old hardware like openmoko. Discussed (again!) moving forwards

Re: armhf multiarch tuple

2012-04-18 Thread Martin Guy
On 17 April 2012 18:36, Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: debian armel is currently built for v4t but is likely to move forward to v5 at some point. -1 as we have and others have products that are arm4vt and that ship with Debian as its standard system. How big is the speed advantage for v5

Re: Help making a decision on re-basing Slackware ARM from armv4 to armv5

2011-12-15 Thread Martin Guy
On 14 December 2011 21:30, Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: Slackware, like Debian is a general purpose OS aiming to meet most users' needs on the common denominator hardware -- which on ARM is armv4. Some instructions were added in v5E: count-leading-zeroes, 16-bit multipliers,

Re: My progress on armhf

2011-08-29 Thread Martin Guy
On 22 August 2011 22:43, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 06:53:49PM +, Hector Oron wrote: 2011/8/22 Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca: Any suggestions for what to fix next? Pick the one you dislike the most =)

Re: wiki.debian.org/ARM - page needed - volunteer? ; gre

2011-05-05 Thread Martin Guy
On 3 May 2011 04:25, giovanni_re john...@fastmail.us wrote: PS  Did i miss it? http://wiki.debian.org/ArmPort doesn't have a link to http://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatPort ? Your search failed to find http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort which is the main technical reference for the current

notes to help with ghc6 armhf port

2011-04-14 Thread Martin Guy
Hi! I see from ArmHardFloatTodo that ghc6 is waiting to be ported. I did this for armel and append the notes I made for my own benefit while doing it, in case someone want to try this. Cheers M - Porting GHC to Debian armel ghc6 cannot be autobuilt because it requires itself to

Re: How to upgrade old abi lenny to squeeze

2011-04-04 Thread Martin Guy
On 4 April 2011 18:35, brian briandorl...@t-online.de wrote: but I thought that I dont have a choice due to the arm - armel change? My understanding was that I cannot upgrade the Lenny version I have to squeeze. If you want to keep the same installed packes and configuration files then yes,

Re: How to upgrade old abi lenny to squeeze

2011-04-03 Thread Martin Guy
On 3 April 2011 12:52, brian briandorl...@t-online.de wrote: On 04/01/2011 06:56 AM, Gordon Farquharson wrote: Based on my experience, I think that you'd make better use of your time by installing armel lenny and then upgrading to squeeze. If anything, it will certainly encourage you to make

Debian armhf: libgsm and speex build integer fixed-point versions on arm*

2011-04-02 Thread Martin Guy
Hi! Revisiting my armel patches for lenny/Crunch, I noticed that libgsm buillds its integer version on arm*: debian/rules: ifneq (,$(filter arm%,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH))) MULTYPE='' else MULTYPE='-DUSE_FLOAT_MUL' endif The same is true of speex: ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU),arm) objdir =

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-03-02 Thread Martin Guy
Hi I just upgraded a Thecus N2100, populated with lots of languages and dev packages, from lenny to squeeze. This worked fine, following the kernel+udev+reboot+dist-upgrade method. Nice work, team! Summary: the upgrade worked as described and would have given a working system, but watching the

Running armel on armv4 hardware

2011-01-31 Thread Martin Guy
Amother solution would be to emulate the thumb instructions linux uses by catching the illegal instruction signal in kernel space alla FPA emulators. Not that I'm volunteering to write it, mind! Not for free anyway ;) M M

Re: ARMv4-support in armel/squeeze?

2010-12-30 Thread Martin Guy
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net wrote: Neil? I spent 2006 working to bootstrap the armel port, of which the first 6 months were getting a working EABI cross-compiler (partly because the emdebian crowd, who seemed to know more about it, urged me to;

Re: emacs-snapshot for arm

2010-08-20 Thread Martin Guy
On 8/20/10, Alok G. Singh alephn...@hcoop.net wrote: Martin Guy mailed me off-list to remind me about the terms of distributing GPL software. So, to clarify: 0. The binaries are NOT signed. Caveat emptor. 1. This is just an armel build of emacs-snapshot[1]. The license

Re: ARM ports

2010-08-13 Thread Martin Guy
On 8/13/10, Mohammed Rashad mohammedrasha...@gmail.com wrote: I would like port ARM to MINIX3. But dont know where to start. If you can give me a spark to start porting of ARM I will be very grateful to you. Can I use any simulators for porting MINIX to ARM processors. I had also purchased a

Re: emacs-snapshot for arm

2010-08-10 Thread Martin Guy
On 8/10/10, Alok G. Singh alephn...@hcoop.net wrote: Is there a repo with binary packages of the excellent emacs-snapshot[1] ? Footnotes: [1] http://emacs.orebokech.com/ If you have a debian arm box, you can add deb-src http://emacs.orebokech.com sid main to /etc/apt/sources.list and go

Re: Seeking machines for nightly builds of ITK

2010-08-03 Thread Martin Guy
On 8/3/10, Steve M. Robbins st...@sumost.ca wrote: The insighttoolkit package is a large and active code base. They use a system of nightly build/test on a variety of machines [1] to ensure that the code works on all supported platforms. If you have a non-amd64 machine with spare cycles

Re: cortex / arm-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi (was Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant)

2010-07-17 Thread Martin Guy
On 7/16/10, Aurelien Jarno aurel...@aurel32.net wrote: Martin Guy a écrit : users of armv4t boards, from using the universal operating system Debian? I was not aware of that. If they are some real users of an armv4t port, we should probably keep it. The most widespread

Adding CPU arch statistics to popcon

2010-07-17 Thread Martin Guy
Hi I'm wondering if its feasible to extend popcon to give statistics for the CPU architecture in use. Certainly for the ARM port this would be useful as there are often discussions of which ARM instruction set to support as a baseline. In i386 world, this would be like saying does anyone

Re: cortex / arm-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi (was Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant)

2010-07-15 Thread Martin Guy
On 7/15/10, Loïc Minier l...@dooz.org wrote: armel can also use vfp instructions, so I personally find it confusing. No it can't. Any binary that contains a vfp instruction will die with SIGILL on any armv4t chip that has no vfp cpu, so cannot be used in Debian armel. As far as the ABI is

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-11 Thread Martin Guy
On 7/11/10, Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com wrote: But then doesn't that mean that everything is armel, so we never have a hope of having Debian officially support more than one combination? Well, armel should be as generic as possible. In an ideal world, it would be called arm and run on

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-10 Thread Martin Guy
On 7/10/10, Hector Oron hector.o...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/7/10, Martin Guy martinw...@gmail.com: What are the effects of the name choice? If we pick up the wrong name, then we would need to start over the bootstrapping again, and we would like to avoid that. Sure. So my question was what

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-09 Thread Martin Guy
On 7/9/10, Hector Oron hector.o...@gmail.com wrote: I prefer 'armhf', FWIW. Somebody against 'armhf'? Have we got it? And for the triplet, is it OK to use vendor tag as explained in the wiki page[1]? arm-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi or armhf-linux-gnueabi What are the effects of the

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-08 Thread Martin Guy
Hi if you make a new port name, remember that you'll have to submit hundreds of requests for package maintainers to modify control files and build scripts so that things are built for the new architecture and in some cases so that all binary packages are produced for that architecture. I

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-08 Thread Martin Guy
On 7/9/10, Martin Guy martinw...@gmail.com wrote: Any mistake by users trying to mix the regular armel packages and the hardfloat ABI ones would just fail immediately. Erm my mistake. *Should* fail immediately but don't. I just ran some tests on Maverick hardfloat in a Debian armel

Re: Machine similar to ancina anyone? (was: DM needs helps with build failure (yorick on armel))

2010-05-09 Thread Martin Guy
On 5/7/10, Luca Niccoli lultimou...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 May 2010 10:58, Thibaut Paumard mlotpot.n...@free.fr wrote: This is the info I got from Stephen Gran on d-admin: Processor : Feroceon rev 0 (v5l) $ cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : Feroceon 88FR131 rev 1 (v5l)

Re: Thecus N2100 recovery

2010-03-17 Thread Martin Guy
On 3/17/10, jl.050...@gmail.com jl.050...@gmail.com wrote: My Thecus N2100 ran well for years. Then, the hard disk failed. To prepare to install a new hard disk, I tried arping/telnet approach as per: http://www.cyrius.com/debian/iop/n2100/telnet.html but telnet times out: The page

Re: Bug#573712: gem: FTBFS on armel (assembler erorrs)

2010-03-16 Thread Martin Guy
On 3/16/10, Adam D. Barratt a...@adam-barratt.org.uk wrote: gem fails to build on armel with assembler errors. From the build log: g++ -c-I/usr/include/lqt -fopenmp -I/usr/include/ImageMagick -I/usr/include/lqt -I/usr/include/avifile-0.7 -I/usr/include/FTGL

Re: Help needed to debug an armel build/unittest failure

2010-03-13 Thread Martin Guy
On 3/12/10, Iustin Pop iu...@k1024.org wrote: I also tried two compiler versions, 4.4 (4.4.3-1) fails unittests but 4.3 (4.3.4-6) passes them. While trying to debug this under gcc 4.4, I managed to add some code to an inlined function that makes the problem go away. Original function

Re: Help needed to debug an armel build/unittest failure

2010-03-11 Thread Martin Guy
On 3/7/10, Iustin Pop iu...@k1024.org wrote: So it looks like what we're actually seeing here is one bit of corruption. I still strongly suspect a compiler bug. Probably the compiler's emulation of 64-bit arithmetic is broken in some way. First, are you aware of 64-bit arithmetic

Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

2010-03-11 Thread Martin Guy
On 3/10/10, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net wrote: ... where is all this documented? has anyone actually done this - documented and automated e.g. how the debian-armel port was created, when previously there was only the debian-arm one? There is a huge difference between

Re: Help needed to debug an armel build/unittest failure

2010-03-07 Thread Martin Guy
On 3/7/10, Iustin Pop iu...@k1024.org wrote: Second question would be if it's OK to use agricola to test this Well u can use the 600 MHz 512MB box here if that would help. You access the armel-sid chroot by saying armel-sid :) Suggest a username by private email if that would be of help M

Re: DM needs helps with build failure (yorick on armel)

2010-02-17 Thread Martin Guy
Therefore, I don't know what happened on ancina, nor how to fix it. The sigill happens when running the newly-created yorick binary for the first time: make[2]: Entering directory `/build/buildd-yorick_2.1.05+dfsg+cvs20091202-2-armel-CvRsYS/yorick-2.1.05+dfsg+cvs20091202/doc' ../yorick/yorick

Re: genesi and open rd

2010-02-08 Thread Martin Guy
On 2/8/10, Karsten König re...@gmx.net wrote: So Debian will run on both as it is built for the ARMv5 architecture ARMv4t (so it will still run on both) M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: genesi and open rd

2010-02-08 Thread Martin Guy
On 2/8/10, Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com wrote: OT, but has anyone looked at what gains can be had by rebuilding packages with, say, A8 or other optimizations for processors that support them? Well, it has a VFP FPU, so floating point apps will run N times faster, and GCC optimizes some

Re: genesi and open rd

2010-02-08 Thread Martin Guy
On 2/8/10, Karsten König re...@gmx.net wrote: OT: Are there plans to raise this to ARMv5 or even higher after Squeeze? Or are the benefits not worth dropping the older devices? I hope not. armv4t is pretty widespread in single-board computers, while the v5 benefits are vanishingly small: one

Re: FPC does SIGILL in armv4t

2010-02-08 Thread Martin Guy
strd/ldrd were first introduced in armv5t Architecture v5TE and later processors provide LDRD and STRD instructions to load/store 64-bit data, e.g. to access 64-bit peripherals. These behave similarly to LDM/STM of two registers. ldrd just loads 64-bit data (ok, atomically) into two registers.

Re: anyone interested in grouping together to get better pricing than $130 on ARM 7in Netbooks?

2010-01-31 Thread Martin Guy
On 1/31/10, Michelle Konzack linux4miche...@tamay-dogan.net wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=380171647291#ht_3021wt_984 I think I should inform the eBay Staff about this Item. They are making Publicity with a VERY high quality AUO B089AW01 but selling in

Re: perl: arm non-IEEE fp rounding patch obsolete?

2010-01-31 Thread Martin Guy
On 1/31/10, Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org wrote: I'm looking at non-upstreamed Debian perl patches, and I figured I'd check with you before dropping this one from 5.8.7-9 (Dec 2005): http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/perl/5.10.1-9/debian/arm_fp.diff Subject: Skip two

Re: anyone interested in grouping together to get better pricing than $130 on ARM 7in Netbooks?

2010-01-30 Thread Martin Guy
i just wish these manufacturers would get their act together and produce 9in and 10in ARM netbooks. there seems to be some sort of mis-match (of their own expectations) that a 600 or 700mhz ARM CPU somehow wouldn't be good enough to run a 1024x600 or 1280x800 LCD, It's not a CPU

Re: I need fast ARM Hardware for native compile

2010-01-13 Thread Martin Guy
If you just need a Debian arm/armel development environment, there is a 600MHz 512MB big-disk armv5t you can use here over ssh. If that's useful, mail me privately suggesting your preferred username M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Bug#547503: git-core: git clone fails on armel

2009-11-09 Thread Martin Guy
Hi folks git clone fails on my Debian armel system: Just to say, there's a 500MHz 512MB armel-sid box here n2100.martinwguy.co.uk that you can use for compilation and over ssh if that's useful - just suggest a username by private email. Good luck! M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: doubt

2009-11-03 Thread Martin Guy
On 11/3/09, rajagopal venugopal raj3...@gmail.com wrote: my doubt is whether i can use my own kernel for for my own arm hardware and make the kernel work with debian GNU/Linux Yes. I do this all the time. You may get problems if your kernel configuration is very different from the config that

Re: Apt alignment trap.

2009-10-10 Thread Martin Guy
reassign 548842 gcc-4.3 4.3.4-2 thanks On 10/9/09, John Reiser ven...@bitwagon.com wrote: Some shared library has been built with an initialized pointer, where the storage for the pointer itself is not aligned on a 4-byte boundary. The problem is not in glibc(ld-linux); the problem lies

Re: Bug#546823: __thread usage in libcap-ng0 broken on armel

2009-09-29 Thread Martin Guy
On 9/28/09, Pierre Chifflier pchiffl...@edenwall.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 04:28:36PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: ARM porters: can you shed any light on this? As I have no armel platform here (and no knowledge specific to the architecture), some help would be appreciated. There

Re: alignment errors on armel: what to do?

2009-09-29 Thread Martin Guy
On 9/28/09, Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net wrote: after dealing with #548815, i'm a little bit concerned about the behavior of the kernel in the face of alignment errors on armel. i've read http://bugs.debian.org/397616 and followed the references in there, so i think i

Re: alignment errors on armel: what to do?

2009-09-29 Thread Martin Guy
On 9/29/09, Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net wrote: char f[4]; void test(char* x, short z) { short* y = (short*)x; *y=z; } int main(int argc, const char* argv[]) { test(f,argc); return 0; } any idea why gcc would lay out the memory differently for armel than

Re: alignment errors on armel: what to do?

2009-09-29 Thread Martin Guy
On 9/28/09, Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net wrote: i just turned on warnings in an NSLU2 running squeeze (a buildd for me) and note alignment warnings from several processes: pdftex (reproducable with aptitude reinstall texlive-base-bin) aptitude (also reproducable with

Re: FTBFS on armel: 'OV_CALLBACKS_STREAMONLY' undeclared

2009-09-21 Thread Martin Guy
On 9/21/09, Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net wrote: I should note that i have some concerns about tremor on armel in general that haven't been addressed by upstream (and i haven't been able to sort out): http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/tremor/2009-April/001564.html Maybe

Re: FTBFS on armel: 'OV_CALLBACKS_STREAMONLY' undeclared

2009-09-21 Thread Martin Guy
On 9/21/09, Martin Guy martinw...@gmail.com wrote: I just tried this, and it's doing a misaligned word access: Sorry, my mistake. It's pumping misaligned half-word (16-bit) accesses, which again returns some form of garbage, probably either the correct value if it's from the middle of a 4-byte

Re: FTBFS on armel: 'OV_CALLBACKS_STREAMONLY' undeclared

2009-09-20 Thread Martin Guy
On 9/20/09, Luk Claes l...@debian.org wrote: Maybe it's an option to revert using libvorbisidec-dev and use libvorbis-dev again on armel to fix the FTBFS of mpd? debian-arm and Joey Cc-ed so they can give input as I'm unsure if current ARM hardware does have floating point support to make

Re: arm port plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-29 Thread Martin Guy
On 8/29/09, Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com wrote: * Gordon Farquharson gordonfarquhar...@gmail.com [2009-08-27 09:33]: Is anybody planning on implementing a scheme to migrate from arm installations to armel, e.g. http://wiki.debian.org/ArchTakeover? Riku was working on this but I'm not

Re: arm port plans for the squeeze cycle (fpc bootstrapping)

2009-08-27 Thread Martin Guy
On 8/26/09, peter green plugw...@p10link.net wrote: From what i've heared gpc and fpc are far from compatible, I don't have personal experiance with gpc though. Yes, that is the impression I got from various people whose programs only compile with fpc M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: arm port plans for the squeeze cycle (fpc bootstrapping)

2009-08-26 Thread Martin Guy
I looked at this in spring 2008. From http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiProblems#fpc --- fpc Free Pascal compiler, a.k.a. fp-compiler. Exists in sid for arm, i386, amd64 and powerpc. Requires itself to compile itself and contains cpu-specific code generators: the arm one may or may not

Re: arm port plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-18 Thread Martin Guy
On 8/18/09, Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com wrote: Do we have anything to report here? IMHO, any release date will work fine for the ARM port since there are no major issues or transitions. Just checking, as I'm outside the Debian ARM inner circle... Is the arm port being dropped in squeeze

Re: arm port plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-18 Thread Martin Guy
On 8/18/09, Colin Tuckley co...@tuckley.org wrote: ada? An arm-linux-gnueabi native gnat-4,4 toolchain has appeared http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2009-08/msg00282.html Just needs someone to apply the patches to the debisn gcc-4.4 and bootstrap the thing Untested, but hey! M -- To

Re: Newbie problem.

2009-06-05 Thread Martin Guy
On 6/5/09, Magicloud Magiclouds magicloud.magiclo...@gmail.com wrote: There is friendlyarm selling, using Samsung S3C2440AL-40 chip. I wonder if debian-arm supports that. Hi There are two versions of Debian for ARM processors. The old arm version of Debian runs on CPUs that support the

Re: Need help debugging arm application.

2009-05-21 Thread Martin Guy
On 5/20/09, Dunge dun...@yahoo.com wrote: We are developing an application for a TS-TPC-7390 ARM device with Debian as the linux distribution. We are using many libraries (glibc, gdk, gtk, gtkmm, pango, cairo, etc). It also uses multiple threads. The program compiles and execute fine (a bit

Re: Need help debugging arm application.

2009-05-21 Thread Martin Guy
unfortunately the download link on the website is invalid ( http://simplemachines.it/tools/gcc-4.3-crunch_4.3.3-20090322_armel.deb ) Thanks for pointing that out. However there's little difference between that and the 20090319 version (see the changelog), and unless your application is

Cirrus MaverickCrunch FPU optimized Debian repository available

2009-05-05 Thread Martin Guy
Hi I've made a little repository of Debian armel packages available that are compiled using real MaverickCrunch FPU instructions. The speedups are between 2.5 and 4 times for audio codecs compared to the standard softfloat packages. These are only useful if you are running Debian armel lenny

Re: problem building gerris on armel: Illegal instruction

2009-04-23 Thread Martin Guy
On 4/23/09, Drew Parsons dpars...@debian.org wrote: effectively what we have on armel is the situation where FPU_SETCW is NOT in fact available, so fpu_control.h should not be defining it. Thanks. I've submitted a bug report against glibc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: problem building gerris on armel: Illegal instruction

2009-04-19 Thread Martin Guy
On 4/19/09, Drew Parsons dpars...@debian.org wrote: is in FPU_SETCW, so it's certainly related to Debian patch fpucontrol-bug350595.patch. Maybe The illegal instruction is generated by 274_FPU_SETCW (fpu_trap_exceptions); /usr/include/fpu_control.h: /* This is fmxr fpscr, %0.

libvorbis patch for armel

2009-03-19 Thread Martin Guy
short output files that decode to the correct amount of silence. This is caused by an optimization bug present in gcc 4.[123] that miscompiles the MAX(x,y) macro, optimizing it away completely. Fixes: http://bugs.debian.org/515949 Analysis: https://trac.xiph.org/ticket/1526 Martin Guy martinw

Re: GCC bug when -ffast-math is set on armel

2009-03-19 Thread Martin Guy
Thanks for finding this out. Has a bug been filed to the GCC bugtracker? You're welcome, and yes: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39501 M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: GCC bug when -ffast-math is set on armel

2009-03-19 Thread Martin Guy
In case anyone's in a hurry for a working oggenc (libvorbis) or lame on armel, I've dumped fixed packages under http://martinwguy.co.uk/martin/debian/no-finite-math-only I haven't changed the version numbers on the packages, so you need to download and dpkg -i them and they will get replaced

Re: Alignement on ARM

2009-03-07 Thread Martin Guy
On 3/7/09, Vincent Bernat ber...@debian.org wrote: lldpd, a program of my own, available on https://trac.luffy.cx/lldpd/ , is doing some unaligned memory access. What kind of ARM platform may I setup that would produce no error but incorrect data when reading unaligned int? It

Re: Alignement on ARM

2009-03-07 Thread Martin Guy
On 3/7/09, Vincent Bernat ber...@debian.org wrote: I have followed the howto available here: http://www.aurel32.net/info/debian_arm_qemu.php to setup an ARM system. However, I have no alignment issues with this platform. What kind of ARM platform may I setup that would produce no

Re: Alignement on ARM

2009-03-07 Thread Martin Guy
[off list] On 3/7/09, Vincent Bernat ber...@debian.org wrote: Unfortunately, I need root access to be able to inject packets. I will try to get access to some NSLU2 platform. Mmm, not that I don't trust you but I have to guarantee the service for other users. If you get stuck, let me know,

Re: Update on Thecus N2100 support in Debian

2009-02-24 Thread Martin Guy
On Sunday 15 February 2009, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Since Debian lenny (version 5.0) has now been released (see http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090214), I thought I'd provide an update on Thecus N2100 support in Debian. - There's still no DMA support, but I will provide an

Re: WOL on Thecus N2100

2008-12-23 Thread Martin Guy
On 12/23/08, Marc Pignat marc.pig...@hevs.ch wrote: Unfortunatly, the only way to power on the n2100 is the button. There is even no way to turn it on after a power loss. Yeah. Even nailing the button pressed doesn't do it. You seem to need another computer, a parallel port, a transistor, a

Re: performance information

2008-11-18 Thread Martin Guy
Hi! I only get 3 MB/s on a 100Mbps network using a 200MHz ARM CPU because it runs out of CPU to run the TCP network stack. You can find out whether this is your problem by running vmstat 5 on a console while you beat the network/disks to death, watching the CPU - id column. If it goes down to

Re: performance information

2008-11-18 Thread Martin Guy
On 11/18/08, Lennert Buytenhek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that the Cirrus ep93xx? If yes, then you're only getting 3 MB/s because the ethernet MAC is lame Yes it is. Thanks for the info M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Bug#503144: FTBFS on armel: gsf-scan, ** ERROR **: Compilation trouble with endianess.

2008-10-29 Thread Martin Guy
-#if defined(__arm__) !defined(__vfp__) (G_BYTE_ORDER == G_LITTLE_ENDIAN) +#if defined(__arm__) !defined(__ARM_EABI__) (G_BYTE_ORDER == G_LITTLE_ENDIAN) libgsf was fixed a long time ago - before eabi stuff had any sort of plan in Debian. Using __vfp__ seemed like the best test

Bug#503144: FTBFS on armel: gsf-scan, ** ERROR **: Compilation trouble with endianess.

2008-10-29 Thread Martin Guy
On 10/29/08, Paul Brook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The correct macro is __VFP_FP__ If __MAVERICK__ is defined, __VFP_FP__ isn't, but the word order is the same. Thay may not matter much to most folks, but it does a lot to some :) M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Bug#501970: perl: FTBFS on arm: ext/threads/shared/t/stress.t failure

2008-10-17 Thread Martin Guy
On 10/17/08, Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may just be too much for arm - running 50 simultaneous threads doing a million loops may take more than the 30 seconds allowed on some of the older boxes. It failed on a 600MHz armel-sid box, but when I upped the timeout from 30 to 120

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bug#499746: [PPL-devel] Building still fails on ARM]

2008-10-14 Thread Martin Guy
On 10/13/08, Michael Tautschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, is it possible for a non-DD to get temporary access to some ARM machine for debugging those issues? - Forwarded message from Roberto Bagnara [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Roberto Bagnara [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL

Re: Recommended compile flags for Lenny armel on NSLU2

2008-09-22 Thread Martin Guy
On 9/22/08, Alan Snelgrove [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CFLAGS= -O4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -mcpu=xscale -mabi=aapcs-linux -mfloat-abi=softfp -mfpu=vfp -mabi=aapcs-linux is the default for armel You may find that you get better performance from -O2, which performs all speed

Re: Recommended compile flags for Lenny armel on NSLU2

2008-09-21 Thread Martin Guy
On 9/21/08, slugmanbashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Each time I used the CXXFLAGS settings recommended here, http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/wiki/LibTorrentKnownIssues . Which are, CXXFLAGS=-O2 -mcpu=xscale -mtune=xscale . Are these CXXFLAGS setting still-valid/the-best for applications

Re: Upgrade to armel

2008-09-09 Thread Martin Guy
On 9/4/08, Mikael Rudberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried searching the net for the easiest way of upgrading to my etch-nslu2 to armel-lenny. Is it possible to do a dist-upgrade or is the migration method in the debian wiki (http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiHowto) the only method available

Re: FTBFS blocking RC bug fixes

2008-07-31 Thread Martin Guy
On 7/25/08, Luk Claes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * afnix: ../../../cnf/bin/afnix-aexec: line 78: 25032 Segmentation fault LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ld_lib_path DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ld_lib_path $pexe $binopt $1 needs to be compiled with g++-4.1 on arm (old-abi only). Is that an acceptable workaround?

Re: speakup fixes

2008-06-29 Thread Martin Guy
On 6/29/08, Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - install the attached speakup-source package - apt-get source -t unstable linux-modules-extra-2.6 - apply the attached patch to re-enable arm archs and just compile the speakup modules

Re: speakup fixes

2008-06-29 Thread Martin Guy
Mmm, you probably got the -4 version while my patch was against -5. Indeed - install any needed dependency - dpkg-buildpackage -B I don't see a *speakup*deb among them, though - is that right? Oops, no, I would have expected 8 speakup-modules-*deb packages. I forgot to say

Re: Iceweasel Source Package for armel

2008-06-28 Thread Martin Guy
On 6/27/08, Joe Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Martin Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/27/08, Joe Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First thanks for the iceweasel and xulrunner builds for armel, works great! Which ones are you using - the ones from

Re: iceweasel-3.0rc1 for armel available

2008-06-07 Thread Martin Guy
Someone just pointed out that my xulrunner package had depended on libhunspell-1.1-0 which has since gone and been replaced by -1.2-0, so unless you already happened to have libhunspell-1.1-0 installed, it was not installable. I've just rebuilt it to depend on -1.2-0 M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: armel package building

2008-05-22 Thread Martin Guy
On 5/22/08, Joe Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using the commands you listed below, except my CFLAGS are set in a gcc script that points to either gcc-4.1 or gcc-4.2 for easy change. I can't reproduce your problem, but from the varying messages, and the fact that it fails on all packages,

Re: armel package building

2008-05-22 Thread Martin Guy
configure.in:966 is the AC_OUTPUT(...) line, so would you send the output of autoconf --version too please? There are three versions floating around: 2.13, 2.50 and 2.61 and with various combinations of packages autoconf and autoconf2.13 installed in differnt orders I have seen all three version

Re: Testing build on arm

2008-05-05 Thread Martin Guy
On 5/5/08, Ludovico Cavedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am co-maintaining package wengophone. At the moment it is failing build on arm because of a GCC bug [1] Is there any way for me to test the build on an arm machine before uplading a new version of the package? Yes, your can

Re: Speeding up aptitude on NSLU2

2008-04-28 Thread Martin Guy
On 4/28/08, Kurt Pruenner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: starting aptsh is a matter of seconds, while starting aptitude is a matter of minutes... :( On a 600MHz machine with a (slow) hard disk, aptitude takes 4.5 seconds to start up and close down, while on a 200MHz NFS or USB system it takes over

Fwd: Upgrading from arm to armel

2008-03-16 Thread Martin Guy
Well, to quote *all* of the personal mail I sent to Tobias... *sigh* -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 15.3.2008 22:03 Subject: Re: Upgrading from arm to armel To: Tobias Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are there any problems to be expected because

armel repository news

2008-03-08 Thread Martin Guy
Hi armel packages are now migrating to testing, so anyone using the EABI port should add a line to /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian lenny main and you probably want to keep deb http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian unstable main deb

armel port status report

2008-03-04 Thread Martin Guy
Hi I now have some more time to help progress the armel port, and first have analysed the differences between the ftp.debian-ports.org repository, which is no longer updated, and the new official version at ftp,debian.org and mirrors. The good news is that the mainline repo contains the

Re: armel port status report

2008-03-04 Thread Martin Guy
2008/3/4, Riku Voipio [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 03:12:47PM +, Martin Guy wrote: plus 5 that are not currently flagged to be built on arm* architectures. please file bugs against the respectice packages if those are mistakes. Of course. If I understand correctly

Re: armel port status report

2008-03-04 Thread Martin Guy
*FIXING* bugs and submitting patches to BTS. See ltrace as a great example what would be really usefull. Just listing problems or filing bugreports (without patchehs) does not get the port anywhere fast... Sorry, do you mean I should fix ltrace on armel, or (what i think you mean) that

Re: Access to arm box

2008-02-29 Thread Martin Guy
Is it correct that arm does not support setting the FPU rounding mode via fesetround()? At least, bits/fenv.h does not define FE_UPWARD, FE_DOWNWARD and FE_TOWARDZERO. It says in that file: /* The ARM FPU basically only supports round-to-nearest. Other rounding modes exist, but you

Re: Security buildd for armel

2008-02-08 Thread Martin Guy
2008/2/8, Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 06:48:18PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: So, these Intel boards are _badly_ needed. Or maybe the buildd can be run in qemu on a fast amd64 machine, I don't know if that would work out. It would probably be slower

Re: Status of armel in the archive?

2008-02-02 Thread Martin Guy
2008/1/30, Luk Claes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:32:55AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: [armel]'s quality is at least matching the current arm port Could you please comment on the current status and list outstanding issues blocking the inclusion of armel in the

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