Re: Debian GNU/Linux on tablet hardware

2011-12-14 Thread Ruediger Leibrandt
Gyro-Mouse? That'd be a seperate I/O device. In case of requiring or wanting such, one could always use a standard bluetooth mouse keyboard, which's use is more common than those free-flight-mouses. Integrating such a gyromouse inside the photoframe-tablet seems of little use, either, as the

[Arm-netbook] FSF Endorsed ARM EOMA-PCMCIA Compliant Module

2011-12-14 Thread lkcl luke
just fyi, this discussion has been initiated on arm-netbooks. bari, who is a hardware engineer, would like to know if anyone would be interested in having the beaglebone adapted, or any other of the open schematics boards such as the origen, beagleboard-xm, IMX53QSB etc. into a credit-card-sized

Re: Debian GNU/Linux on tablet hardware

2011-12-14 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le Sunday 11 December 2011 02:02:52, Rüdiger Leibrandt a écrit : It's a cheap technique material wise, and when you have a PCB which is simply laid into the inside of the wooden frame and then have metal wire run through drilled holes in the wood and solderd to the PCB, it's a

Re: Debian GNU/Linux on tablet hardware

2011-12-14 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le Wednesday 14 December 2011 11:49:10, Ruediger Leibrandt a écrit : Integrating such a gyromouse inside the photoframe-tablet seems of little use, either, as the normal accelerometers inside a tablet do somewhat the same as the mouses gyro's do. Well, actually, I just need to know if the

debian-installer - cross-compile to armel?

2011-12-14 Thread Jason
All, I'm attempting to following the instructions at [1] to build a netboot kernel and initrd for the dreamplug. Unfortunately, I'm unable to replicate what the build server seems to be able to do [2], cross-build debian-installer images. There are several old (2005) discussions about it being

Re: debian-installer - cross-compile to armel?

2011-12-14 Thread DrEagle
May be my notes can be helpfull [1] [1] http://doukki.net/doku.php?id=wiki:notes:crossbuild Amicalement, Le 14/12/2011 17:56, Jason a écrit : All, I'm attempting to following the instructions at [1] to build a netboot kernel and initrd for the dreamplug. Unfortunately, I'm unable to

Re: debian-installer - cross-compile to armel?

2011-12-14 Thread Jason
DrEagle, On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 08:06:41PM +0100, DrEagle wrote: Le 14/12/2011 17:56, Jason a écrit : I'm attempting to following the instructions at [1] to build a netboot kernel and initrd for the dreamplug. Unfortunately, I'm unable to replicate what the build server seems to be able

Help making a decision on re-basing Slackware ARM from armv4 to armv5

2011-12-14 Thread Stuart Winter
Hello Firstly no, I haven't gone mad asking the question here -- I hope! :-) The Slackware ARM port rides on some of Debian ARM's coat tails - specifically regarding patches for glibc, gcc and some Mozilla apps -- and I've digested the extensive Debian documentation when deciding what to do

Re: debian-installer - cross-compile to armel?

2011-12-14 Thread Jason
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 03:55:27PM -0500, Jason wrote: DrEagle, On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 08:06:41PM +0100, DrEagle wrote: Le 14/12/2011 17:56, Jason a écrit : I'm attempting to following the instructions at [1] to build a netboot kernel and initrd for the dreamplug. Unfortunately, I'm

Re: Help making a decision on re-basing Slackware ARM from armv4 to armv5

2011-12-14 Thread Wookey
+++ Stuart Winter [2011-12-14 20:30 +]: Debian's armel port has a user base vastly larger than Slackware ARM's, and as such the baseline will (I assume) remain at armv4 because there are many devices out there that have such CPUs - and nobody wants to isolate such a large number of

Re: debian-installer - cross-compile to armel?

2011-12-14 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Jason, 2011/12/14 Jason deb...@lakedaemon.net: I'm attempting to following the instructions at [1] to build a netboot kernel and initrd for the dreamplug.  Unfortunately, I'm unable to replicate what the build server seems to be able to do [2], cross-build debian-installer images.  

Re: struct user conflicts on armel and armfh

2011-12-14 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 6:59 PM, peter green peter.gr...@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk wrote: Do porters and/or glibc maintainers think this should be dealt with on the libc6-dev side or should I continue to file patches that deal with this issue on the application side? As an upstream glibc

Re: Debian GNU/Linux on tablet hardware

2011-12-14 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Dominique Dumont d...@debian.org wrote: On Saturday 10 December 2011 02:01:51 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:  batteries / power.  ah.  when you say digital photo frame, do you mean portable device or do you mean put it on the wall or mantlepiece? I mean

Re: Help making a decision on re-basing Slackware ARM from armv4 to armv5

2011-12-14 Thread John Reiser
On 12/14/2011 02:17 PM, Wookey wrote: All the plug computers are in fact v6, I believe, My SheevaPlug says it is a v5tel: - /proc/cpuinfo Processor : Feroceon 88FR131 rev 1 (v5l) BogoMIPS: 1192.75 Features: swp half thumb fastmult edsp CPU implementer : 0x56 CPU

Re: debian-installer - cross-compile to armel?

2011-12-14 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011, Jason wrote: Ahhh, crap. I wasn't clear. I'm not trying to cross-compile d-i, I'm trying to use d-i on x86 to build a uImage/uInitrd netboot combo for armel... To use or to build? I'm not sure what you mean exactly, but I've had success with building debian-installer

Re: Help making a decision on re-basing Slackware ARM from armv4 to armv5

2011-12-14 Thread Scott Sullivan
On 12/14/2011 09:42 PM, John Reiser wrote: On 12/14/2011 02:17 PM, Wookey wrote: All the plug computers are in fact v6, I believe, My SheevaPlug says it is a v5tel: - /proc/cpuinfo Processor : Feroceon 88FR131 rev 1 (v5l) BogoMIPS: 1192.75 Features: swp half thumb

Re: Help making a decision on re-basing Slackware ARM from armv4 to armv5

2011-12-14 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
W dniu 15.12.2011 03:56, Scott Sullivan pisze: The Pandaboard and Beagle board are also armv5tel as well, to the best of my memory. they are v7 That family of devices has reached consumer critical mass and has a large community of users. Fedora is continuing it's v5tel efforts for those and

Re: struct user conflicts on armel and armfh

2011-12-14 Thread peter green
Carlos O'Donell wrote: As an upstream glibc maintainer I would be happy to see this fixed in glibc and gdb, but nobody has stepped up to fix it. Ok. The `struct user` is used by the gdbserver code that uses ptrace (PTRACE_PEEKUSR/POKEUSR) to peek/poke at the inferior and read out stored