Re: arm port plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-19 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:27:32AM -1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Marc Brockschmidt m...@marcbrockschmidt.de [2009-08-16 14:40]: Do you have any big changes planned? How much time would they take, and what consequences are there for the rest of the project? How many big transitions will

Re: arm port plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-19 Thread Frans Pop
Riku Voipio wrote: As mentioned elsewhere on the thread, the biggest deal is getting openmoko supprted. But I believe it's more of a kernel and d-i team issue than ARM port issue. Eh, support for new hardware is not implemented by the D-I team, but by porters. Of course, we welcome porters to

Re: arm port plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-19 Thread Wookey
+++ Martin Michlmayr [2009-08-18 08:58 -1000]: * Martin Guy martinw...@gmail.com [2009-08-18 19:38]: Just checking, as I'm outside the Debian ARM inner circle... Is the arm port being dropped in squeeze in favour of armel as planned? Yes. Presumably the old arm port will hang around in

Re: arm port plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-19 Thread Frans Pop
Wookey wrote: I wonder if there is value in someone archiving lenny arm somewhere as it may remain useful for a surprisingly long time to people who have not migrated old hardware (after lenny oldstable has been removed from the Debian archive). Does this already happen somewhere anyway?

Re: arm port plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-19 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2009/8/19 Riku Voipio riku.voi...@iki.fi: I'd like to throw the ball back to our ARM port users - what are missing from Debian ARM port? I am missing an optimized eglibc for small systems (for example, -Os), i have commented such thing to debian-eglibc people (aurel) and he asked for

Re: arm port plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 19, 2009, at 6:42 AM, Riku Voipio wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:27:32AM -1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Marc Brockschmidt m...@marcbrockschmidt.de [2009-08-16 14:40]: Do you have any big changes planned? How much time would they take, and what consequences are there for the

Thecus N2100 installation problem

2009-08-19 Thread Jonas Gehring
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian Lenny on a Thecus N2100. I've followed the howtos on http://www.cyrius.com/debian/iop/n2100/index.html . However, during Installing the base system, the installer reports an error: An error was returned while trying to install the busybox package onto

Re: arm port plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Riku Voipio riku.voi...@iki.fi [2009-08-19 13:42]: As mentioned elsewhere on the thread, the biggest deal is getting openmoko supprted. But I believe it's more of a kernel and d-i team issue than ARM port issue. Personally, I think support for new devices/platforms is nice to have but not

ARM kernel snapshots - 2.6.31-rc6

2009-08-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
I've built kernel snapshots for armel based on 2.6.31-rc6. If your device has a recovery mechanism or a serial console, please test them on your favourite ARM machine and report any problems you encounter to this list. You can find the kernel packages at