Re: understanding Debian support on ARM architecture

2014-08-10 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 04:40:05 +0300 Martin T m4rtn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, according to wiki, Debian is supported on little-endian ARM architecture. However, then wiki lists some sub-architectures which are supported. For example iop32x, ixp4xx, kirkwood and orion5x. Does this mean

Re: understanding Debian support on ARM architecture

2014-08-10 Thread Martin T
Reco, thanks for this explanation! Could you please explain this hardware enumeration provided by x86/x86-64 CPU's to kernel bit more? What kind of information is provided to kernel in case of x86/x86-64 CPU? thanks, Martin On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: understanding Debian support on ARM architecture

2014-08-10 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 17:09:58 +0300 Martin T m4rtn...@gmail.com wrote: Reco, thanks for this explanation! Could you please explain this hardware enumeration provided by x86/x86-64 CPU's to kernel bit more? What kind of information is provided to kernel in case of x86/x86-64 CPU? Sure:

Re: understanding Debian support on ARM architecture

2014-08-10 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 18:22:41 +0400 Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 17:09:58 +0300 Martin T m4rtn...@gmail.com wrote: Reco, thanks for this explanation! Could you please explain this hardware enumeration provided by x86/x86-64 CPU's to kernel bit more?

Re: understanding Debian support on ARM architecture

2014-08-10 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 8/10/2014 2:39 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 04:40:05 +0300 Martin T m4rtn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, according to wiki, Debian is supported on little-endian ARM architecture. However, then wiki lists some sub-architectures which are supported. For example iop32x, ixp4xx,

Re: understanding Debian support on ARM architecture

2014-08-10 Thread Joe
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 14:14:53 -0400 Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 18:22:41 +0400 Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 17:09:58 +0300 Martin T m4rtn...@gmail.com wrote: Reco, thanks for this explanation! Could you please explain

Re: understanding Debian support on ARM architecture

2014-08-10 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 14:25:35 -0400 Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: I don't think the x86 architecture provides ANY hardware enumeration. The processor couldn't care less. It's all about ports and interrupts. Yup. CPU is the ignorant one. Now, BIOS (or UEFI), on the other

Re: understanding Debian support on ARM architecture

2014-08-10 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 20:10:56 +0100 Joe j...@jretrading.com wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 14:14:53 -0400 Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 18:22:41 +0400 Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 17:09:58 +0300 Martin T m4rtn...@gmail.com

understanding Debian support on ARM architecture

2014-08-09 Thread Martin T
Hi, according to wiki, Debian is supported on little-endian ARM architecture. However, then wiki lists some sub-architectures which are supported. For example iop32x, ixp4xx, kirkwood and orion5x. Does this mean that Debian ARM port works on fairly limited number of sub-architectures? For example

Re: understanding Debian support on ARM architecture

2014-08-09 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 8/9/2014 9:40 PM, Martin T wrote: Hi, according to wiki, Debian is supported on little-endian ARM architecture. However, then wiki lists some sub-architectures which are supported. For example iop32x, ixp4xx, kirkwood and orion5x. Does this mean that Debian ARM port works on fairly