Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 20:44 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 07:43:18AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 22:49 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:20:53PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 02:10 +0100, Wookey

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-17 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:19:26AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 20:44 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 07:43:18AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 22:49 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:20:53PM +0100, Ian

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
suggestion, wookey: i'd love to help... but obviously with no hardware that's kinda hard: is there a clear set of instructions somewhere - a wiki page for example - on how to debootstrap an arm64 qemu so that even if it's dead slow it's still possible to help out?

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:10 AM, Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: The debian-port arm64 rebootstrap is progressing nicely, and we just passed 4200 source packages built, with another few hundred pending. There are now 2 buildds running. awesome Thus I'd love it if anyone else could help go

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-17 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 05:24:38PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: is there a clear set of instructions somewhere - a wiki page for example - on how to debootstrap an arm64 qemu so that even if it's dead slow it's still possible to help out? https://wiki.debian.org/Arm64Qemu

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: The page is obsolete, since a month ago that code is already in unstable. It's qemu-user only, though, so you can use it to build and run stuff but not to debug bootloaders, the kernel or such. Full aarch64 system emulation is in qemu

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-16 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 22:49 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:20:53PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 02:10 +0100, Wookey wrote: Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd like to hear from you. Below is the list of languages we believe

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-16 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 07:43:18AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 22:49 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:20:53PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 02:10 +0100, Wookey wrote: Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 02:10 +0100, Wookey wrote: Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd like to hear from you. Below is the list of languages we believe still need porting to arm64: Ruby wasn't on the list, is that under control? Ruby seems to be at the bottom of the build-dep

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2014-05-15 02:10 Wookey: The debian-port arm64 rebootstrap is progressing nicely, and we just passed 4200 source packages built, with another few hundred pending. There are now 2 buildds running. In the course of that 344 have failed to build, (see

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Le jeudi 15 mai 2014 à 02:10 +0100, Wookey a écrit : Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd like to hear from you. Below is the list of languages we believe still need porting to arm64: Julia Note that currently Julia is only available on i386/amd64 (so no armel/armhf for

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 02:10:39AM +0100, Wookey wrote: GHCi (ghc is done, but not ghci - is this hard?) This is hard. You need either an LLVM-based port or a native code generator, and in either case I think you need some linker support in GHC. Both of these are serious compiler engineer

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 15.05.2014 03:10, schrieb Wookey: Go (we have gccgo, but not gcgo) this is not arm64 specific. Debian has a serious problem in that the current Go maintainers are focused on gc only, which only supports amd64, i386, armhf, and probably armel. Mono needs porting GCL CLISP need porting

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:20:53PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 02:10 +0100, Wookey wrote: Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd like to hear from you. Below is the list of languages we believe still need porting to arm64: Ruby wasn't on the list, is

arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-14 Thread Wookey
The debian-port arm64 rebootstrap is progressing nicely, and we just passed 4200 source packages built, with another few hundred pending. There are now 2 buildds running. In the course of that 344 have failed to build, (see http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/architecture.php?a=arm64suite=sid