Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-14 Thread Laz
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 21:47, Joey Hess wrote: Laz wrote: Someone mentioned on this list back in January that they would build an armel kernel package: did this ever happen? Can't see one in http://armel-debs.applieddata.net/debian but I do see lots and lots and lots of packages! :-)

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-14 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 09:11 +, Laz wrote: On Tuesday 13 February 2007 21:47, Joey Hess wrote: Laz wrote: Someone mentioned on this list back in January that they would build an armel kernel package: did this ever happen? Can't see one in http://armel-debs.applieddata.net/debian but

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-14 Thread Laz
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 21:47, Joey Hess wrote: Laz wrote: Someone mentioned on this list back in January that they would build an armel kernel package: did this ever happen? Can't see one in http://armel-debs.applieddata.net/debian but I do see lots and lots and lots of packages! :-)

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-14 Thread Rod Whitby
Laz wrote: I'll try to swap over the rootfs properly at some point. Is there any way of telling the kernel what to use as the root partition? I'm used to being able to set it with grub! At the moment, You'll need to solder on the four pins for a serial console, and set the cmdline in Apex.

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-14 Thread Aurelien Jarno
David Fokkema a écrit : On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 09:11 +, Laz wrote: On Tuesday 13 February 2007 21:47, Joey Hess wrote: Laz wrote: Someone mentioned on this list back in January that they would build an armel kernel package: did this ever happen? Can't see one in

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-14 Thread Laz
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 10:10, Rod Whitby wrote: Laz wrote: I'll try to swap over the rootfs properly at some point. Is there any way of telling the kernel what to use as the root partition? I'm used to being able to set it with grub! At the moment, You'll need to solder on the four

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-14 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:11:58AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Nice. Mine took 20 mins longer (real time), of which there was 3 mins more user time. I had some other processes running, so... I was a bit worried about the size of the deb, only 8.5M whereas my x86 debs are all 20+M,

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-14 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:36:48AM +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: Attached is an updated version of the patch that turns on versatile. I don't plan to rebuild with it right now since it takes several days on the already busy thecus I've been using. I'll start a build. It completed

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-14 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:19:02AM +, Laz wrote: So far, it looks like everything except 4 of the packages installed on my Slug are in the armel port so I should be able to swap over properly. (Just about to check out those 4 missing ones.) Which ones? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-14 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Lennert Buytenhek a écrit : On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:11:58AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Nice. Mine took 20 mins longer (real time), of which there was 3 mins more user time. I had some other processes running, so... I was a bit worried about the size of the deb, only 8.5M whereas my x86

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-14 Thread Laz
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 11:17, you wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:19:02AM +, Laz wrote: So far, it looks like everything except 4 of the packages installed on my Slug are in the armel port so I should be able to swap over properly. (Just about to check out those 4 missing

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-14 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:33:18AM +, Laz wrote: From taking the output from dpkg --get-selections and feeding it into apt-cache policy, I got versions for all but the following: OK, my take on this list: W: Unable to locate package catsboot The CATS is a StrongARM machine (IIRC) and

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Lennert Buytenhek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-14 12:44]: W: Unable to locate package libklibc klibc hasn't been ported over to armel yet: W: Unable to locate package linux-image-2.6.18-3-ixp4xx linux-image-2.6.18-4-ixp4xx is in the pool. initramfs-tools requires klibc-utils, and the kernel

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-14 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 12:26 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:20:19PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: I also cross-compiled the kernel on a x86 laptop (1.5 GHz) and that took me about half an hour. First, I though that it wasn't working right (I Note that you need

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-14 Thread Laz
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 12:22, you wrote: * Lennert Buytenhek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-14 12:44]: W: Unable to locate package libklibc klibc hasn't been ported over to armel yet: W: Unable to locate package linux-image-2.6.18-3-ixp4xx linux-image-2.6.18-4-ixp4xx is in the

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-14 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Laz a écrit : On Wednesday 14 February 2007 12:22, you wrote: * Lennert Buytenhek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-14 12:44]: W: Unable to locate package libklibc klibc hasn't been ported over to armel yet: W: Unable to locate package linux-image-2.6.18-3-ixp4xx linux-image-2.6.18-4-ixp4xx is in

Re: Continued existance of armeb?

2007-02-14 Thread Wookey
On 2007-02-14 13:35 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Hi, I've been off and on maintaining two buildd hosts over the past year for an armeb architecture, running on two NSLU2's in big endian mode. Andreas Barth (Cc'ed) has been maintaining the ftp-master and wanna-build side of things for that.

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Aurelien Jarno [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-14 14:32]: You can also uses yaird, which does not depends on klibc-utils I doubt an image made with yaird will boot on the nslu2, though. In any case, klibc supports EABI so you only need to patch the build scripts. -- Martin Michlmayr

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-14 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 01:50:50PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: You can also uses yaird, which does not depends on klibc-utils I doubt an image made with yaird will boot on the nslu2, though. In any case, klibc supports EABI so you only need to patch the build scripts. OK, klibc indeed

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-14 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Lennert Buytenhek a écrit : On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:20:19PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: I also cross-compiled the kernel on a x86 laptop (1.5 GHz) and that took me about half an hour. First, I though that it wasn't working right (I Note that you need to use an arm eabi toolchain.

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-14 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Lennert Buytenhek a écrit : On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:36:48AM +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: Attached is an updated version of the patch that turns on versatile. I don't plan to rebuild with it right now since it takes several days on the already busy thecus I've been using. I'll start a

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-14 Thread K. Richard Pixley
Lennert Buytenhek wrote: Shouldn't matter -- if you use a gcc 4.1 that defaults to old-ABI to compile your kernel but pass it command line options to set the ABI to aapcs-linux (i.e. EABI, like the linux kernel build does), it should work -mabi=aapcs-linux = eabi? Cool. Which is the abi

Re: arm eabi port available

2007-02-14 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:31:51AM -0800, K. Richard Pixley wrote: I'm really happy that you've made this stuff available. Thank you so much! However, I'm concerned about your band width and availability from the yank side of the pond. Is anyone mirroring this repository yet? Or

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-14 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:22:36AM -0800, K. Richard Pixley wrote: Shouldn't matter -- if you use a gcc 4.1 that defaults to old-ABI to compile your kernel but pass it command line options to set the ABI to aapcs-linux (i.e. EABI, like the linux kernel build does), it should work

Experiences of armel on NSLU2

2007-02-14 Thread Laz
I've been testing Debian armel on a Linksys NSLU2 over the past couple of days. I built a kernel with EABI support and this seems to work fine both with the normal arm port and with the armel rootfs in a chroot environment. I have now mounted the (USB) disk on another Debian box and replaced

Re: Experiences of armel on NSLU2

2007-02-14 Thread Rod Whitby
Laz wrote: I've been testing Debian armel on a Linksys NSLU2 over the past couple of days. I built a kernel with EABI support and this seems to work fine both with the normal arm port and with the armel rootfs in a chroot environment. I have now mounted the (USB) disk on another Debian box

Re: Experiences of armel on NSLU2

2007-02-14 Thread Joey Hess
Rod Whitby wrote: Looks like you're not loading the microcode. FWIW, it's in /lib/firmware on an installed nslu2 system. The LEDs won't light during boot unless nslu2-utils is installed, BTW. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature