Re: The future of mipsel port

2023-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2023-08-06 at 13:54 +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > I am late to the party but as i mentioned a couple times on debian-mips > already i'd like to keep mipsel as a debian-port - and i'd like to > revert away from mips32r2 back to mips2/mips3 - That change (with > stretch) basically dropped

Re: The future of mipsel port

2023-07-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2023-07-18 at 12:45 +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: > As CIP United, we do maintain an unofficial port of mipsel. > So I wish that Debian can still accept our patch to support mipsel > port (source only). > https://repo.oss.cipunited.com/debian/ The closest Debian has to source-only ports are

Re: unbreaking LibreOffices tests on at least release architectures

2023-06-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2023-06-20 at 22:46 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Can I suggest that if you file a few bugs and add some information in > it so that maybe someone can look at it? If it only affects one > architecture, send a mail to that list asking for help. PS: when filing architecture-specific bugs,

Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2018-07-07 at 23:29 +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: > Since they are quite new, I expect they support mips r2. I was not able to find any info about that. > Maybe the problem is due to lack of FPU? Possibly, did Debian jessie have FPU disabled and stretch has FPU enabled? Here is

Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2018-07-07 at 22:54 +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: > use eb in a chroot env of openwrt etc env is a use case. In my case it was the default firmware with help of this: https://github.com/mattimustang/optus-sagemcom-fast-3864-hacks > What CPU is your router? mips r2 is a quite old ISA

Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 10:31 PM, YunQiang Su wrote: > In fact I don't know anybody is using Debian's mips32eb port. I used jessie mips on my router in a chroot and was considering going further, but stretch bumped the ISA requirements so I cannot use it any longer. Likewise someone on

Re: Bug#613610: xburst-tools: contains precompiled binaries in debian/

2017-04-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 10:41 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > So the link has disappeared. What is the status of xburst-tools in > Debian ? Do we really want that package in Debian ? It is only needed for the Ben NanoNote, which is no longer shipping. It looks like Ingenic are no longer actively

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 01:37 +0300, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > At the openmainframeproject EU meetup, it was indicated that SUSE > joined with indication that Open Build Service might be able to use > resources hosted by Marist. > > I wonder if it makes sense to reach out, and see if there are

Re: Contributing to the project

2016-06-06 Thread Paul Wise
If you have a MIPS-based device, the place to start would be to get Debian working on that. You could also work on fixing the issues listed in Build-Attempted, BD-Uninstallable, Failed and Not-For-Us/Auto-Not-For-Us on these pages: https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=mips=sid

Re: Time to change the debian-ports list?

2015-07-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 1:21 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I'm in favor of the old design because I think it's important to havw a list which can be used to make announcements about important issues that all porters should be aware of. We have debian-devel-announce for that, the

Guide to getting ported?

2015-04-30 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Do any porters have any input on this page? https://wiki.debian.org/GettingPorted -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [mipsel-manda-01.debian.org] lemote-3a-itx-a1101 kernel boot issues

2015-02-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 10:56 +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: Maybe you need updating pmon? Which version of pmon do you use? Where can we find updates for pmon? I note that pmon isn't available in Debian, is anyone planning on packaging it? It would be nice if we could update it easily. -- bye,

Re: [mipsel-manda-01.debian.org] lemote-3a-itx-a1101 kernel boot issues

2015-02-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 12:50 +0800, Aron Xu wrote: That's happening, and AFAIK it's the reason we are having this incompatible kernel change to provide a unified interface. Good news, thanks. u-boot source provides a u-boot-tools package, guess that's more important than u-boot as a

Re: ruby1.8-based DSA puppetd cron job segfaults on ball.d.o (SWARM mips buildd)

2014-12-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2014-12-14 at 08:31 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: hopefully the crashes will be less frequent though. Now the crashes have extended to python and buildd processes. Possibilities include dying hardware or the Linux kernel upgrade. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: ruby1.8-based DSA puppetd cron job segfaults on ball.d.o (SWARM mips buildd)

2014-12-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2014-12-11 at 12:23 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: For now I've switched ball to using ruby1.9.1, which doesn't appear to have the problem. We just got a crash with ruby1.9.1 unfortunately, hopefully the crashes will be less frequent though. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

ruby1.8-based DSA puppetd cron job segfaults on ball.d.o (SWARM mips buildd)

2014-12-10 Thread Paul Wise
Hi MIPS porters, puppetd (ruby1.8) has recently (since 2014-11-30) been segfaulting on ball.d.o[1] (SWARM mips buildd). We don't appear to get segfaults on any other mips machines so this might be hardware-specific. The crash doesn't happen every time ruby runs either. I've included two sample

Re: Bug#730258: please add arch-specific BTS tags

2013-11-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: These are the list of ports that I see: I would strongly suggest not hardcoding this list and instead harvesting the Architecture fields of the Release files for oldstable - experimental on ftp.d.o, ftp.d-p.o and maybe archive.d.o. We have

Re: MIPS64EL rootfs available for use and test

2013-11-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 1:57 AM, YunQiang Su wrote: It can be download from: http://mips64el.debian.net/debian/rootfs/ This rootfs contains things that should not be shared between multiple machines (like the dbus machine-id), luckily you didn't install openssh-server or this would result

Re: MIPS64EL rootfs available for use and test

2013-11-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 1:19 PM, YunQiang Su wzss...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 1:57 AM, YunQiang Su wrote: It can be download from: http://mips64el.debian.net/debian/rootfs/ This rootfs contains things

Re: MIPS64EL rootfs available for use and test

2013-11-11 Thread Paul Wise
Woops, sorry for the blank mail. On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 1:19 PM, YunQiang Su wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Paul Wise wrote: Point users at debootstrap or d-i instead of the rootfs (best option). I agree, while we have no generic kernel image for mips64el, the kernel patch

Re: mips64el port build failed list

2013-10-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:33 PM, YunQiang Su wrote: We are working on the port of mips64el, and the progress is quite good. Please add that to debian-ports.org so that maintainers can find failed build logs linked from the PTS and work on fixing the issues. Until you are able to add mips64el to

Re: DSA concerns for jessie architectures (mips*)

2013-06-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Peter Palfrader wrote: If our existing eight-year old hardware is the only mips machines we can reasonably get then that doesn't bode well for mips. We don't think relying on the SWARMs (alone) is an option. Perhaps Calvium will interested in providing newer

single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-21 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I'm looking for a way to replace my current home network infrastructure with a single device running Debian. I currently have these devices: * Siemens SpeedStream 4200. This is an ADSL2+ modem running the supplied OS. It is running in bridge mode, DSL port plugged into

Re: xburst-tools package needs build under a MIPS cpu machine

2011-11-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 14:55 +0800, Xiangfu Liu wrote: I have a debian package name 'xburst-tools' http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xburst-tools.html but there is a bug about this package: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=613610 those three binary package needs

Re: xburst-tools package needs build under a MIPS cpu machine

2011-11-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 22:27 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: It might be acceptable for a sponsor to build the software in a Debian install running under qemu-system-mipsel, but you would need to build under qemu and test the resulting firmware on your NanoNote to ensure that it works before your