arm64 silicon

2014-05-25 Thread Florian Weimer
Is arm64 silicon now shipping to developers? AMD announced a kit for end of March, but this has not materialized yet. Are there any other options? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-16 Thread Florian Weimer
* Roland McGrath: I can't see why you think --as-needed is fundamentally wrong or unnecessary. It is fundamentally wrong because -lfoo means I demand that the initializers of libfoo.so run, whether or not I called anything in it. So it's more like static linking. 8-) IMHO, the current

Re: ARM endorsing GPL violation by one of its Licensees (Telechips) - TCC8900

2010-12-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton: forcing people to sign NDAs to receive GPL source code is in direct violation of the GPL license. It is widely accepted that programmers can work on GPLed code under NDA, even if the NDA is not imposed by the copyright owner. So this depends on the terms of the

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* Lennart Sorensen: > There are a lot of 32bit powerpc chips still going into embedded systems > being built today. They are not going away anytime soon. Do they implement the ISA required by the existing Debian port?

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-19 Thread Florian Weimer
> In other words, i don't think a s390x box will ever just die. I'm sure “death” encompasses all events which might lead Debian to lose access to relevant hardware. It's not just about faults with a piece of equipment.

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-06-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* Riku Voipio: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 08:11:14PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: >> * Niels Thykier: >> >> > armel/armhf: >> > >> > >> > * Undesirable to keep the hardware running beyond 2020. armhf VM >> >s

Re: Arm ports build machines (was Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns)

2018-06-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton: > that is not a surprise to hear: the massive thrashing caused by the > linker phase not being possible to be RAM-resident will be absolutely > hammering the drives beyond reasonable wear-and-tear limits. which is > why i'm recommending people try

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-06-28 Thread Florian Weimer
* Niels Thykier: > armel/armhf: > > > * Undesirable to keep the hardware running beyond 2020. armhf VM >support uncertain. (DSA) >- Source: [DSA Sprint report] Fedora is facing an issue running armhf under virtualization on arm64:

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-10 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ben Hutchings: > On Sun, 2020-02-09 at 11:57 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: >> * Ben Hutchings: >> >> > If I recall correctly, glibc *will* provide both entry points, so there >> > is no ABI break. But the size of time_t (etc.) exposed through libc- >

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-09 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ben Hutchings: > If I recall correctly, glibc *will* provide both entry points, so there > is no ABI break. But the size of time_t (etc.) exposed through libc- > dev is fixed at glibc build time. Is this a Debian-specific decision? There has been a proposal upstream not to support 32-bit

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* Steve McIntyre: > The kernel is *basically* fixed now. Internally, data structures > should now be safe. There are a small number places where 32-bit time > is still a thing, but it's in hand. A number of syscalls, ioctls, > etc. have needed updates for the user-kernel interface level. XFS is

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* Sam Hartman: > Steve, you're presuming that we would not create a new soname for libc6 > on architectures where we want a new time ABI. That seems to be a reasonable assumption because Debian would have to use a different soname from upstream. glibc upstream does not seem likely to change

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ansgar: > Arnd Bergmann writes: >> On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 11:16 PM Florian Weimer wrote: >>> There's going to be a _TIME_BITS selector, similar to >>> _FILE_OFFSET_BITS. >>> >>> There was a proposal to have only one API before, but I think the

Re: Bug#956418: src:glibc: Please provide optimized builds for ARMv8.1

2020-04-22 Thread Florian Weimer
* Noah Meyerhans: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:18:35PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> > Significant performance impact has also been observed in less contrived >> > cases (MariaDB and Postgres), but I don't have a repro to share. >> >> But indeed what counts is number on real workloads. It

Re: [Y2038] Trying Debian/armhf rebootstrap with time64

2020-03-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ben Hutchings: > On Mon, 2020-03-16 at 16:02 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 3:47 PM Rich Felker wrote: >> >> > libtirpc is the replacement. I wasn't aware if uses libc-provided rpc >> > headers (presumably only if they exist, since folks are using it fine >> > on musl)

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2020-08-04 Thread Florian Weimer
* Florian Weimer: >> * Concern for mips, mips64el, mipsel and ppc64el: no upstream support >>in GCC >>(Raised by the GCC maintainer; carried over from stretch) > > I'm surprised to read this. ppc64el features prominently in the > toolchain work I do (thou

Re: Really enable -fstack-clash-protection on armhf/armel?

2023-11-24 Thread Florian Weimer
* Emanuele Rocca: > Hello! > > On 2023-11-24 01:34, Guillem Jover wrote: >> According to https://bugs.debian.org/918914#73 there were no pending >> toolchain issues related to this. > > That is correct. The GCC maintainers at Arm confirm that > stack-clash-protection is supported on 32 bit too.