Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-13 Thread Laz
On Monday 12 February 2007 19:04, Joey Hess wrote: Laz wrote: Is the arm-el port the same as the EABI port or is that different again? It looked like there were about three different arm ports and I couldn't really work out which was best for me! armel and eabi are the same thing. There

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-13 Thread Philip Armstrong
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:04:37PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Laz wrote: Is it possible to dist-upgrade from debian-arm to the EABI port or is it a complete reinstall? If so, is it a by hand install or is there an installer image for it? It's a complete reinstall, or a very tricky by-hand

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-13 Thread Laz
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 10:02, Philip Armstrong wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:04:37PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Laz wrote: Is it possible to dist-upgrade from debian-arm to the EABI port or is it a complete reinstall? If so, is it a by hand install or is there an installer image

Compiling custom kernel

2007-02-13 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, I wanted to try out the eabi chroot, but that generated an illegal instruction. Of course, I forgot to compile a new kernel. I'm doing that right now, but I'm wondering about what to do with it. Due to the recent change to apex (well, maybe not so recent) the information on the net is

Re: Compiling custom kernel

2007-02-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-13 12:24]: right now, but I'm wondering about what to do with it. Due to the recent change to apex (well, maybe not so recent) the information on the net is somewhat conflicting. Do I need to flash? Yes, you need to flash but a kernel hook will take

Re: Compiling custom kernel

2007-02-13 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 11:33 +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-13 12:24]: right now, but I'm wondering about what to do with it. Due to the recent change to apex (well, maybe not so recent) the information on the net is somewhat conflicting. Do I need

Re: Compiling custom kernel

2007-02-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-13 12:46]: Great! Thanks. Followup question: say I'd like to boot the debian supplied kernel again: do I need to reinstall or is a dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.18-3-ixp4xx enough? You can simply run: flash-kernel 2.6.18-3-ixp4xx I also suggest

Re: Compiling custom kernel

2007-02-13 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 11:53 +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-13 12:46]: Great! Thanks. Followup question: say I'd like to boot the debian supplied kernel again: do I need to reinstall or is a dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.18-3-ixp4xx enough?

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:54:15AM +, Laz wrote: I think there's a kernel config option for this (CONFIG_OABI?). CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT, yes. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-13 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 13:20 +, Martin Guy wrote: Yes, I gathered something like that from the wiki. I just kinda hoped that for just one application it was possible to link it to something like -lsoftm instead of -lm. No, current ARM Debian uses a different storage format for floating

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-13 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 16:23 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:07:39PM +0100, David Fokkema wrote: simple. Maybe I can write a new pnmscale or modify it in some way. Like pnmscalefixed? ;-) Er... yes, something along those lines... feeling stupid I _was_ going to look

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-13 Thread K. Richard Pixley
Philip Armstrong wrote: Will the armel kernel run oldarm binaries? (I'm sure I read that it did somewhere) If so, then switching the nslu2 firmware to the new kernel, booting the original Debian install, then installing the armel port in a chroot before switching over to it ought to work. Or am

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-13 Thread Joey Hess
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! :-) I've only just finished getting the kernel to build

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-13 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Joey Hess a écrit : 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! :-) I've only just finished

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-13 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:20:03PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Would it be possible to enable the versatile flavour on armel? It is disabled on arm due to limited build daemon ressources. But it seems this is not the case on armel. We haven't decided yet on which machines to use as buildds

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-13 Thread Joey Hess
Aurelien Jarno wrote: Nice work. I was working on a patch, but you have been faster than me! Thanks for your work. Would it be possible to enable the versatile flavour on armel? It is disabled on arm due to limited build daemon ressources. But it seems this is not the case on armel. The

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-13 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 06:33:18PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Would it be possible to enable the versatile flavour on armel? It is disabled on arm due to limited build daemon ressources. But it seems this is not the case on armel. The configuration file is already in the debian/arch/arm

Re: arm eabi port, patches

2007-02-13 Thread Wookey
On 2007-01-10 23:06 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 17:11:23 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: More and more VFP-supporting CPUs are coming out lately, and it would be nice to be able to use VFP on them in a sane way. The existing Debian EABI efforts have been taking