Bug#708070: enable x32 support for the amd64 kernels

2014-07-26 Thread Robert de Bath
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Robert de Bath wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Ben Hutchings wrote: I had an idea how to unblock this, and finally got round to trying it, and it seems to work. That is, we build in x32 support but require a run-time parameter to enable. So, please try the attached patch

Bug#708070: enable x32 support for the amd64 kernels

2014-07-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2014-07-26 at 10:52 +0100, Robert de Bath wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Robert de Bath wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Ben Hutchings wrote: I had an idea how to unblock this, and finally got round to trying it, and it seems to work. That is, we build in x32 support but require a

Bug#708070: enable x32 support for the amd64 kernels

2014-07-26 Thread Robert de Bath
On Sat, 26 Jul 2014, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2014-07-26 at 10:52 +0100, Robert de Bath wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Robert de Bath wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Ben Hutchings wrote: What do you mean, reinstate? This is the same behaviour you get at present. Well, here's a new version

Bug#708070: enable x32 support for the amd64 kernels

2014-07-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2014-07-26 at 21:05 +0100, Robert de Bath wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2014, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2014-07-26 at 10:52 +0100, Robert de Bath wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Robert de Bath wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Ben Hutchings wrote: What do you mean, reinstate? This is the

Bug#708070: enable x32 support for the amd64 kernels

2014-07-25 Thread Robert de Bath
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Ben Hutchings wrote: No, there should be no extra kernel flavours for i386 or amd64. Hmm, still not getting this. I thought the point of flavours was to split off options that, though popular, have undesirable side effects. I had an idea how to unblock this, and finally

Bug#708070: enable x32 support for the amd64 kernels

2014-07-24 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
I was just hit by bug https://bugs.debian.org/736659 after installing gcc-multilib and later rebuilding my initramfs. I don't think this situation of having several x32 packages on the archive (which other packages depend on) while the official debian kernel don't supports x32 at all is

Bug#708070: enable x32 support for the amd64 kernels

2014-07-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 13:20 +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: I was just hit by bug https://bugs.debian.org/736659 after installing gcc-multilib and later rebuilding my initramfs. I don't think this situation of having several x32 packages on the archive (which other packages depend

Bug#708070: enable x32 support for the amd64 kernels

2014-07-24 Thread Robert de Bath
On Thu, 24 Jul 2014, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 13:20 +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: I was just hit by bug https://bugs.debian.org/736659 after installing gcc-multilib and later rebuilding my initramfs. I don't think this situation of having several x32 packages on

Bug#708070: enable x32 support for the amd64 kernels

2014-07-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 20:22 +0100, Robert de Bath wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2014, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 13:20 +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: I was just hit by bug https://bugs.debian.org/736659 after installing gcc-multilib and later rebuilding my initramfs.

Bug#708070: enable x32 support for the amd64 kernels

2014-07-24 Thread Robert de Bath
On Thu, 24 Jul 2014, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 20:22 +0100, Robert de Bath wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2014, Ian Campbell wrote: But that's rather different to now enabling x32 in the arch=amd64 kernel which is what #708070 is about. Likewise creating a new flavour=x86,arch=amd64

Bug#708070: enable x32 support for the amd64 kernels

2014-07-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 patch On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 21:47 +0100, Robert de Bath wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2014, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 20:22 +0100, Robert de Bath wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2014, Ian Campbell wrote: But that's rather different to now enabling x32 in the arch=amd64

Bug#708070: enable x32 support for the amd64 kernels

2013-05-12 Thread Matthias Klose
Package: linux Severity: wishlist Please enable support for the x32 syscalls, so that it becomes possible to run a x32 chroot on such a kernel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org