Hello,
2011/11/13 Goswin von Brederlow :
> I'm considering buying a Smart Book from Always Innovating [1]:
>
> * 1GHz ARM cortex-A8 DM3730 with video and 3D acceleration
> * Numonyx 512MB RAM + 256 MB NAND
> * 8GB microSD card
> * 1024x600 8.9" capacitive touchscreen
> ...
>
> Doe
Hello Lennart,
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:08:29AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:48:34PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > Ruby 1.9.3 is going to be released in september, and is a candidate for
> > the default ruby version in wheezy. A snapshot is available in
> > expe
Hello Lennart,
2011/12/5 Lennart Sorensen :
> I tried adding armhf to the list of archs needing -fno-tree-sra, and it
> made no difference at all. Exact same crash in the same place.
Yes, that matches my tests. Thanks very much for trying.
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tached [2]. Then, we wanted to talk to you about getting
this stuff into mainline vs your work.
Solving this blocker, getting official debian-installer support should
be doable, so any work towards adding dreamplug into mainline kernel
is welcome.
[1] dreamplug.patch
[2] u-boot.patch
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Hello Peter,
2011/12/25 peter green :
> While investigating the build failure of scim-python on armhf I discovered
> that importing enchant with python 2.6 fails on armhf
>
> root@debian:/# python2.6 -c "import enchant"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "", line 1, in
> File "/usr/lib
Hello again,
2011/12/25 peter green :
> While investigating the build failure of scim-python on armhf I discovered
> that importing enchant with python 2.6 fails on armhf
>
> root@debian:/# python2.6 -c "import enchant"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "", line 1, in
> File "/usr/lib
Hello,
2011/12/25 peter green :
> So would the reasonable thing to do be to binnmu it and see if the problem
> goes away?
Done and problem does not go away, but installing `libenchant-dev'
makes the error go away.
It looks like to me that `scim-python' build-deps are missing
`libenchant-dev', w
Hello,
2012/1/14 Paul Gevers :
> So basically my questions are:
> Abou: 1) Where do the the paths get set for the units, as I believe I
> don't set them in my package (as on all other architectures there are no
> problems at all).
> Abou: 2) Do you have any idea how to solve this problem (in Lazar
Hello,
2012/2/2 Niels Thykier :
> We would like to try a build of eclipse on arm{el,hf}. However, it may
> require a kernel upgrade on the buildds[1]. As far as I can tell,
> linux-2.6/3.2.1-1 carries those patches[2].
We are aware of it, build daemons are not yet ready, we will proceed
with i
Hello Jo,
I am forwarding the message to a couple mailing lists which might have
people interested on the Mono porting for ARM hard-float ABI.
2012/2/2 Jo Shields :
> Right now, Mono is available in Debian armhf. This is a hack - what
> we're actually doing is building Mono as an armhf binary, bu
Hello Peter,
2012/2/9 peter green :
> E: Unable to locate package kernel-image-3.1.0-1-mx5-di
> E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'kernel-image-3.1.0-1-mx5-di'
> Are the errors i'm seeing just caused by ongoing kernel transitions in sid
> or are they indicative of a bigger problem?
That's mo
Hello,
2012/2/16 Bastien ROUCARIES :
> Any news of this bug
It has not been fixed.
It is reproducible on porterbox with latest software versions in SID.
[ 53%] Building CXX object
src/gui/CMakeFiles/kbibtexgui.dir/kbibtexgui_automoc.o
cd /home/zumbi/kbibtex-0.4/obj-arm-linux-gnueabi/src/gui &&
/
e, as I see openjdk-7 is built for armel,
while
there are some installability brokeness with openjdk-6 on armel. Also armel
kernel
has not yet been upgraded.
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2012/3/25 Lennart Sorensen :
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 04:13:22PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> They're fine for us. I started using the Freescale 2.6.35 kernel, then
>> moved over to mainline with 3.2.0. Networking and SATA work fine
>> there, but USB is still not quite there yet...
> A
Hi,
2012/4/18 Wookey :
> +++ Martin Guy [2012-04-18 14:30 +0200]:
>> On 17 April 2012 18:36, Wookey wrote:
>> > debian armel is currently
>> > built for v4t but is likely to move forward to v5 at some point.
>>
>> -1 as we have and others have products that are arm4vt and that ship
>> with Debian
Hi,
2012/5/9 Arnaud Patard :
> "Paul Kench" writes:
>> When I try and build a debian packaged kernel/modules with the deb-pkg
>> target, the package builds but it builds an armel package that complains
>> around architecture when trying to install. I am building natively on the
>> Mele.
> deb-p
t;>as would any other information you think is relevant to helping us
>>determine armel's status for the release.
> Currently each has only 3 porters listed:
>
> * Riku Voipio, Wookey, Colin Tuckley
> * Steve McIntyre, Julian Andres Klode, Hector Oron
I think Kons
Hello Luk,
2012/5/19 Luk Claes :
> As everyone keeps claiming there is no armel buildd location redundancy,
> I don't have much motivation to keep ancina running. It's ignored anyway.
I sent you an email about it as well, ancina is doing d-i armel builds
and currently armel is lagging a bit behi
Hello Bernhard,
2012/6/8 Bernhard R. Link :
> A large number of packages (I guess around 800-900)
> generates the following warning on armel and armhf at build time:
>
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol __aeabi_unwind_cpp_pr1@GCC_3.5 used by
> FILENAME found in none of the libraries.
>
> and/or the
Hi Gregor,
2012/7/6 Gregor Jasny :
> Thank you for this hint. I was able to build an image and dd'ed it to the
> micro SD card. On the serial console I could watch the boot process but
> noticed some warnings and errors:
>
> [1.248177]
> /build/buildd-linux_3.2.21-3-armhf-ki0aTS/linux-3.2.21/
Hello,
2013/3/7 Arnaud Patard :
> Steve McIntyre writes:
>> On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 09:27:42AM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote:
>>>I hope we could be more ambitious and enter the single zImage /
>>>multiplatform setup early. We could start by simply calling the
>>>armada370 / armadaxp flavour "multipla
Hello,
2013/4/2 Nobuhiro Iwamatsu :
> Then, the two candidates have come armmp and armv7.
> Which do you like?
> if there is no other opinions, I would want to decide on armmp.
armmp ++
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Hello,
2013/4/12 Raphael Hertzog :
> OffensiveSecurity owns a Calxeda Highbank cluster of ARM machines[1] and is
> willing to dedicate one of the nodes to Debian.
Thanks, that is a very kind offer and with ARM hat on, we cannot
reject the offer, it makes it very interesting as a playground
machi
Hello,
2013/4/26 Raphael Hertzog :
> On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Hector Oron wrote:
>> * DSA hat: The machine shall not be a debian.org machine, so DSA could
>> export accounts if requested.
>> * Buildd hat: The machine shall not be used to run buildd software to
>> build of
Hello,
Please find publicly available ipa.debian.net, a Calxeda Highbank
Quad Core Cortex-A9 with 4GB RAM node donated to Debian by Offensive
Security.
The machine node is available to all Debian Developers. Find
available instructions on how to use porter chroots in message of the
day (motd).
Hello Paul,
2013/5/12 Paul MARCHAND :
> I've got an efika MX running a version of wheezy built by genesi, i
> would like to switch on the original debian. By the way i would like to
> encrypt my disk (the rootfs)
>
> I'm asking me how can i do it ?
> I found some initrd and uimage on the mirrors.
Hello Peter,
I have been trying to find a reference on which checks runs Raspbian
on binaries to verify those are properly built for armv6hf. Also, I
think I have already asked you such question, could you please remind
me about those?
Regarding Raspbian for Jessie, would it be nice to add a
Hello,
2013/6/27 Luca Filipozzi :
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 07:27:54PM +, David Power wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 09:56:51AM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote:
>> > My main concern is that having a single node as buildd without another
>> > for development purposes means that we don't have easy
Hello,
2013/6/27 Ben Hutchings :
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 04:39:15PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 03:13:48PM +0200, Arnaud Patard wrote:
>> > Ben Hutchings writes:
>> > btw, iop32x is used on n2100 which are used on buildd/porter boxes. If
>> > we stop supporting it, I
Hello,
2013/7/5 Ansgar Burchardt :
> [ Please CC me in replies. I'm not subscribed to the list. ]
> On 06/27/2013 19:22, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 04:39:15PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>>> Bet they're slower than QEMU versatile emulation on an x86. And DSA
>>> loves virtu
Hello,
> < https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=ipa >
The machine shall be down for few days, while we do maintenance works on it.
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Hello Stephen,
2013/8/9 Stephen Kelly :
> After compiling a file I can attempt to link it while passing a --sysroot
> argument. With my linaro ld, this works, but not with my debian ld (can not
> find libc.so.6):
Debian does not provide cross-ld.
Could you please tell where did you get your cros
Hello,
2013/8/21 Joey Hess :
> Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
>> armel has been one of the sore points of maintaining WebKit in Debian.
>> It often fails to build the package because of lack of memory or disk
>> space. I'm told by my colleague Hector Oron that WebKit
Hello,
2013/8/17 Wookey :
> +++ peter green [2013-08-16 11:53 +0100]:
>> Finally it's not strictly related to anything else mentioned here
>> but someone mentioned a mini-debconf in cambridge, can anyone tell
>> me where I can find more details.
> https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Miniconf-UK/2013
>
Hello,
2013/8/22 Loïc Minier :
> FWIW, the Calxeda boxes are armhf and armel capable and make a massive
> difference in buildd performance (good SATA I/O, 4G of RAM, SMP); these
> aren't exactly cheap (yet?), but I definitely wish Debian armel and
> armhf builds all eventually move to server clas
Hello,
2013/8/24 Jeremiah C. Foster :
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 04:01:06AM +0200, Hector Oron wrote:
>> Source (org-mode):
>> < http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/zumbi/debian-org.git >
>> < git://anonscm.debian.org/users/zumbi/debian-org.git >
>
Hello,
2013/10/6 Ben Hutchings :
> The Debian armhf architecture uses the ARM EABI hard-float variant,
> whereas armel uses the soft-float variant. Although the kernel
> doesn't use FP itself, CONFIG_VFP must be enabled to support
> hard-float userland and will probably be disabled when supportin
Hello,
2013/10/13 Ben Hutchings :
> On Tue, 2013-10-08 at 02:23 +0200, Hector Oron wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> 2013/10/6 Ben Hutchings :
>> > The Debian armhf architecture uses the ARM EABI hard-float variant,
>> > whereas armel uses the soft-float variant.
Hello,
2013/10/20 Cyril Brulebois :
> Ian Campbell (2013-10-19):
[...]
> I'm not sure about ancina, but at least hasse had disc issues. Not sure
> what the status is, but the right contact would usually be $arch@buildd,
> added.
Thanks for heads-up! I'll have a look during this week.
Cheers,
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Hello,
2013/10/24 Alessandro Ghedini :
> Hence the idea: what about dropping valgrind from armel? Or alternatively, is
> there anyone who cares about valgrind on armel and wants to debug and try to
> fix this (possibly without making the original kinda ugly hack any worse)?
If interested, also c
Hello,
2013/11/15 Konstantinos Margaritis :
> Riku Voipio wrote:
>> Wearing my armel buildd maintainer hat, I don't feel the same urgency
>> as you seem to have - perhaps that's because the armel buildd'd are
>> less ram-starved than the locos?
>
> Yeah, you're spoiled, iirc, one buildd has 3GB
Hello Ben,
2013/11/11 Ben Hutchings :
> As the Linux kernel has continued to grow, in Linux 3.12 the iop32x and
> ixp4xx kernel images have again exceeded the size limits for the target
> machines.
>
> [Note, all figures here are based on the emdebian gcc-4.7 cross-compiler
> whereas we'll actuall
Hello,
2013/11/15 Konstantinos Margaritis :
>> On the other side of things, Boston guys are aware of our interests
>> and they need to do some internal discussion and maybe allocate some
>> budget for special price or donation, I'll come back with more once
>> they let us know. Also, it appears t
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Find below some bits collected while ARM sprint in Cambridge, UK.
< https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Miniconf-UK/2013 >
If you would like further information or discussion on any of the topics,
pl
Hello,
2013/12/3 Aurelien Jarno :
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 12:43:36AM +0100, Hector Oron wrote:
>> 5.2 Setup arm64 debian-ports
>>
>>
>> ⁃ arm64 setup as new bootstrapping port
>> ⁃ manual builds could be uploaded but pos
Hello,
2013/12/3 Dmitrijs Ledkovs :
> On 2 December 2013 23:08, Hector Oron wrote:
>> 5 arm64 Debian port support
>> ═══
>>
>> If Debian is unable to find ARM 64-bit hardware before Jessie gets
>> frozen, it likely won't be
Hello,
2014-04-28 12:26 GMT+02:00 Ian Campbell :
> On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 19:06 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 08:42:23AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> > Aside: "EfikaMX" is listed in 2.1.2.4 as no longer supported, but we do
>> > supply a specific image for it using the a
Hello,
2014-03-20 19:26 GMT+01:00 Karsten Merker :
[...]
> This is the commit that has removed the code:
>
> commit c7c29b3aeb318b9efe3035cacf42800dfe2970f5
> Author: Matt Sealey
> Date: Wed Aug 1 12:49:30 2012 -0500
>
> ARM: efikamx: remove Genesi Efika MX platform files from the t
Hi!
When you are not running on SysV Init based system, glibc does not
behave as expected.
2008/6/2 Olaf Lüke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hallo,
>
> Im trying to get eabi debian running on a small single board computer
> based on an xscale pxa270. I can allready boot a minimal initramfs with
> busybox
Hello Olaf,
Check postinst file and look for Black magic... that is the problem.
If you solve it, please tell on list.
Cheers
2008/6/2 Olaf Lüke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> try running
>>
>> sh -x /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.postinst configure
>>
>> to see the exact command getting stuck.
>
> It look
Hello,
Neil Williams (codehelp) has already work arround it, here a fwd: message,
The error is that sysvinitver is undefined but the black magic fails to
take account of this possibility because sysvinit "will always exist"
for Debian.
--- debhelper.in/libc.p
21:58 < drasko> still same message
22:00 < zumbi> dpkg -i --force-overwrite
/var/cache/apt/archives/gdb-arm-linux-gnu_6.8-3_i386.deb
22:01 < drasko> Great!
22:02 < drasko> Thanks a lot, lesson learned
2009/2/22 Drasko DRASKOVIC :
> Marx:/home/drasko# apt-get install gdb-arm-linux-gn
> Not a great solution. The real solution is that gdb should be taught
> to rename the man page or leave it out entirely when building a cross
> gdb package. This "bug" has been around for years though.
This solution was a quick work arround, but should we fill a bug
against gdb package? or is i
> Setting up base-passwd (3.5.20) ...
>
> /scratchbox/tools/bin/misc_runner: SBOX_CPUTRANSPARENCY_METHOD not set
[ .. ]
> I did not set up cpu transparency method because I did not need it.
> Could that be the reason?
Are you using Scratchbox? It uses cpu transparency.
Kind r
,
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Hi,
> I am new to this so I might be asking something very simple. But I do
> need your help.
> I have an ARM based board AT91SAM9263-EK and I want to run Debian on it.
> I am running U-Boot 2009.03.
> What options do I have for installation. I don't have a CD-ROM interface
> or Hard disk on it wh
Hi,
> I will love to tftp but my ARM target board is connected to a machine
> running windows XP and running Debian 5.0 in a VMware player. Do you
> think I can still boot from tftp? I do have tftp set up on both windows
> and Debian and can transfer files between them but not sure if Debian in
> V
Hi all,
After more than a month, I finally got the desired toy. :-)
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Hi Martin,
Thanks for all the work you and others do.
I just wanted to comment some wishlist points if you get back to the
sheevaplug soon:
* Add support to u-boot so it can boot kernel from SD [1]
* Try out emdebian grip rootfs (half smaller than Debian one) [2]
* Try out recent egl
Hi,
2009/5/6 Martin Michlmayr :
>> * Try out emdebian grip rootfs (half smaller than Debian one) [2]
>
> I don't know anything about emdebian. Maybe that's something you can
> help out with.
Sure. FYI, emdebian in its grip form it is just Debian stripped, it is
also Debian compatible.
In ord
Hello,
2009/8/19 Riku Voipio :
> 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 porters providing b
Hello,
2009/8/25 Lluís Batlle :
> How should I build glibc or eglibc? Can I check the build scripts for
> debian's glibc somewhere?
$ apt-get source eglibc
will give you the source and you can check build scripts in there.
For the build logs[1] or you can try upstream recommendations[2][3]
[
Hello friendly Lluís,
2009/8/27 Lluís Batlle :
> I'm trying to bootstrap a gcc+glibc in arm, in a Sheevaplug, and I'm
> encountering a problem I don't know how to fix. I'll study the CLFS for arm
> better, maybe that gives some clues, but here is what I find.
First of all, i let you know I am als
Hello Lluís,
2009/8/27 Lluís Batlle :
> I'm not crosscompiling. I'm using a debian and a fedora on arm. I have
> two Sheevaplugs available, and try in both. I'd like to bootstrap gcc
> there. So I'll keep on debian-arm :)
> I could have asked the same in both lists, but I thought I could
> offend
Hi Lennert,
2010/1/13 Lennert Buytenhek :
> There's e.g.:
>
>
> http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/12/kuro_sheeva_mini_server.html
...and wireless?
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Hi again,
2010/1/13 Lennert Buytenhek :
> I guess you could add an SDIO or USB wireless module? (I don't know
> of retail Sheevaplug variants with wireless built in, if that's what
> you're asking.)
I saw
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Marvell-Plug-Computer-30-and-Armada-300-and-610/
j
Hi !
2010/2/4 Alejandro Mery :
> been "engineering samples"... what about the UART, serial port (even 2
> pins help a lot) and jtag reachability? =)
That's an important part. :-)
Let me explain our experience. A bunch of Debian Developers met at
Taipei (.tw) and we got a netbook (MIPS based) unde
Hi,
2010/2/4 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton :
>> Let me explain our experience. A bunch of Debian Developers met at
>> Taipei (.tw) and we got a netbook (MIPS based) under $100. After we
>> got it, we had *no shell*, *no root*, *no loader access*, *no
>> serial*,...
>>
>> We had to exploit a vulnera
Hello Nicolas,
2010/2/8 NG :
> i've seen that open rd seems good and used on this forum.
> But what about genesi ? the form factor is sleek, but the processor is
> perhaps outdated (A8).
OpenRD (armv5 instruction set) is supported in debian-installer,
thanks to tbm. I would like to have more time
Hi,
2010/2/8 Martin Guy :
> On 2/8/10, Bill Gatliff wrote:
>> OT, but has anyone looked at what gains can be had by rebuilding
>> packages with, say, A8 or other optimizations for processors that
>> support them?
> Well, it has a VFP FPU, so floating point apps will run N times
> faster, and GC
Hello,
Nowadays, the number of devices (non x86) is growing and growing.
Lots of these devices have not upstream linux kernel support, which
makes it a bit harder to maintain in the context of debian-installer.
Also, afaict, debian-installer team does not like to add complexity to
d-i, which I u
Hello,
2010/3/3 Oliver Kiddle :
> If you consider what makes the non-x86 hardware different it is the lack
> of a standard way to boot an alternate OS. With a PC BIOS you can instruct
> a PC to boot from a floppy/CD/whatever and we only need a single CD image
> to boot most PCs. Even for headless
Hi,
2010/3/5 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton :
>> It is nice if we can hack manufacturers toys, but if those are
>> non-free to hackers, why should we "officially" support them?
>
> because they may turn out to be "toys" numbering in the several
> hundred thousand to millions of units (e.g.
> http:/
Hello Luke,
Thanks for the comments, really interesting stuff :-)
> so the question comes down to this: whom do you serve? do you serve
> yourself, or do you serve others, who have less skill with computers
> than yourself?
Today I work on free software for learning...
I think it has alwa
(Add debian-embedded@ as Neil was suggesting)
Hello,
2010/3/10 Jonathan Wilson :
> What I'd like to know is how do I build a distribution entirely from
> scratch/source like the pro's do.
linux from scratch is a great reference.
> ie. Get all the debian source for the latest arm port (just the
Hello,
2010/6/9 Daniel Kahn Gillmor :
> Both you and Hector Oron submitted ARM BoF-type events, but they were
> submitted well after the submission deadline, so they won't even be
> reviewed for submission into the published schedule. (i'm currently the
> point person for
Hello,
2010/6/9 Martin Michlmayr :
> Ian Sullivan said he'd submit a BoF or other event for people
> interested in hacking on the SheevaPlug. We could use this event to
> talk about in ARM in general as well, assuming Ian submitted
> something. Can you confirm, Daniel?
According to
https://pent
Dear armel porters,
I am writting this letter to you by out concern of having to pick
up a name for a new armel architecture variant optimized for hard
floating point, instead soft floating point.
Konstantinos (and I shall be also supporting him) is willing to
maintain a new architecture fo
Hello,
2010/7/8, Wookey :
..
> armarm-linux-gnu
..
> I guess that's (more than) enough for now. Thoughts welcome.
Would be sane to use old deprecated OABI name?
armarm-linux-gnu
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Hello,
2010/7/8, Wookey :
..
> armarm-linux-gnu
..
> I guess that's (more than) enough for now. Thoughts welcome.
Would it be sane to use old deprecated OABI name?
armarm-linux-gnu
Kind regards,
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I, hereby, quote some comments from Matt Sealey (Genesi-USA devel):
( Call for hardware: Anyone wanting hardware to work on the port,
please contact me -- better do it ASAP --, Genesi-USA is kind enough
to provide it )
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Just a few comments on the IRC log:
The kernel on gitorious was kind of a
Hello,
2010/7/9, Loïc Minier :
> Please, let's not use the last field; there is not only the default
> target of the toolchain, there is also the toolchain itself. An
> arm-linux-gnueabi toolchain can target both soft and hard float calling
> conventions, so a single triplet. It would be per
Hello again,
2010/7/9, Clint Adams :
> I prefer 'armhf', FWIW.
Somebody against 'armhf'? Have we got it?
And for the triplet, is it OK to use vendor tag as explained in the
wiki page[1]?
arm-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi
or
armhf-linux-gnueabi
Please, remember, that this effort is not official t
Hello Martin,
2010/7/10, Martin Guy :
> What are the effects of the name choice?
If we pick up the wrong name, then we would need to start over the
bootstrapping again, and we would like to avoid that.
> Is it really just a matter of personal taste?
For the Debian architecture name, I believe t
Hello,
2010/7/10, Martin Guy :
> Sure. So my question was "what are the technical impacts of the string
> chosen as an arch name?" -or- "What would make it 'wrong'"?
AFAICS, there are no technical impacts. If someone knows it better,
please expand.
> Sorry, I didn't mean that literal string, I m
Hello,
2010/7/10, Hector Oron :
> 2010/7/10, Martin Guy :
>> Sure. So my question was "what are the technical impacts of the string
>> chosen as an arch name?" -or- "What would make it 'wrong'"?
>
> AFAICS, there are no technical impacts. If so
Dear Aurelien,
2010/7/13, Aurelien Jarno :
> One more technical issue, though not directly related to ARM: we need to
> upgrade the hard drives on the debian-ports.org machine before accepting
> a new port. Nothing hudge, but that may introduce a bit of delay.
Is there something I can do to help
Hello,
2010/7/6, Hector Oron :
> Dear armel porters,
[...]
It is past over a week and people is wanting to start.
I would like to point you to a parallel discussion hold at recent
created Linaro group [1]
There is also a wiki page for the port [2]
The one that bootstraps the port picks
Hello Cristian,
2010/7/14, Cristian Greco :
> To the best of my knowledge and experience, the only bug which seems to
> be related to this kind of issue could be #487406, which was filed and
> forwarded upstream a lot of time ago[2].
>
> Any confirmation, help and comment would be really apprecia
Hello,
2010/7/14, Cristian Greco :
> bug #537733 only affects the version of amule in lenny for arm.
>
> I did all of my tests on a qemu-system-arm virtual machine. The
> segfaults are not reproducible on armel (again, tested with qemu).
I would recommend you tag the bug as 'wontfix', as Debian d
Hello,
2010/7/15, Konstantinos Margaritis :
> First, 'cortex' is not a vendor. it's a cpu family. It's not owned by
> Marvell
> or Qualcomm, but by ARM, if they are OK with us using the name, I don't see
> why the other companies would mind, esp. if they don't offer a cpu in that
> particular fami
Hello Martin,
2010/7/15, Martin Michlmayr :
> * Hector Oron [2010-07-14 22:54]:
>> I would recommend you tag the bug as 'wontfix', as Debian does not fix
>> stable release, but only provides security updates on the stable
>> release.
>
> That's not true.
Hello,
2010/7/15, Paul Brook :
> It isn't. "Cortex" is the marketing name for the current set of CPU core
> implementations designed by ARM ltd. Calling the armv7 port "cortex" is
> equivalent to calling the i686 port "pentium" [1].
But i?86 is ABI compatible, while ARM ABI is a full mess AFAICS
Dear developers,
2010/7/13, Riku Voipio :
> Subarchs could also be useful if we wanted to build softfp abi compatible
> armv6/armv7 armel builds of the whole debian repository. Of course we could
> do
> builds without subarchs, but then users would be unable distinguish which
> installed packages
Hello Loïc,
2010/7/15, Loïc Minier :
> Concerning the triplet choice, I'd highly recommend reading this
> upstream thread:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-07/threads.html#00179
Thanks for sharing it. Quite interesting.
For my point of view, ABI should not be encoded in the upstream
triple
Hello Loic,
2010/7/16 Loïc Minier :
> still need a new port. We also need a different triplet for the
> multiarch use case; I know you're not too interested in multiarch
> yourself anymore, but it's safer to pick a different triplet
> nevertheless IMHO, using the vendor field.
Excuse me! Do
Hello,
2010/7/16 Aurelien Jarno :
>> So, the same question: what is the measured speed up for users of ARM
>> architectures >=5, and is it worth excluding the significant number of
>> users of armv4t boards, from using "the universal operating system"
>> Debian?
>
> I was not aware of that. If the
Dear porters, dpkg maintainers and developers,
It seems that `armhf' and `arm-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi' are the winners.
We are starting to work on Debian new port based on those names.
Thanks all for your contributions!
Best regards,
--
Héctor Orón
19:57 < markos_> ostable: armhf
-architecture flags set could do the job)
• Lots of work for administrator. (A distributed shell or the right
bindings in place could also keep up with it)
Plus there is place for multiple binaries as well, that you can easily
run using QEmu magic.
> (BTW... if you want to run
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