Hello Olivier, Olm-e said : > we are a bunch of people here in brussels wanting to get pure-dyne on > 64bit systems. (we are "organising" in a "brussels audio linux user > group" involving the 2 independant radio "radio panik" and "radio > campus" as well as ConstantVZW and Okno.be f.ex. ) > could you tell how this would be done ? > is there some script around that we could modify to have it build ? > would one 64bit machine put on a fix IP here be of some help for you to > make it happens (if of course you have the time/motivation) ? > > in short : how can we help on that part ?
Ok, 1st of all, pure:dyne as it is now, in its 32bit version, runs perfectly fine on intel 64bit CPU with multiple cores. We have also started working on new kernels that will be available soon and that take advantages of features from more recent CPU, while running in a 32bit system. When it comes to having a full 64bit system, karsten is trying one at the moment, and to be honest without any proper benchmark, it is hard to tell the difference. Few applications take advantage of it and the gain is more about precision rather than noticable performance boost. On the other hand, beyond the 64bit aspect, packaging for such a platform would mean that we can directly compile with better GCC optimisations, for example, and this "could" (I said could :) in some cases lead to noticable performance gain. That why we are interested in this. In terms of infrastructure, thanks for your offer. As it is now, we have already everything we need to make some tests, but what is really missing is time and people to look into it. Basically what we would really need is funding so we can organise a code sprint and work on this to get the ball rolling. We have the experience and we've been talking with 64Studio for a while now about merging some efforts, so that would be a good occasion to finally get together and see what can be done. Otherwise, as it is now, the roadmap for the next milestone is to consolidate what we have done so far, make the live instalattion easier, USB boot on mactel, package different kernels optimised for different intel CPU and work on all kind of things related to workshops. a. > thanks, > > Olivier M. > ogeem.be > okno.be > > --- > [email protected] > irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne > --- [email protected] irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne
