Re: Bug#980963: dpkg: Please add ARC architecture

2021-03-03 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Alexey, On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 07:35:39PM +, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > Well not sure why there's a dependency on glibc as w/o ARC target support > in dpkg nothing could be built for ARC. For example I did built Binutils > with fixed dpkg. There is no hard dependency in that direction. Just

Re: Bug#980963: dpkg: Please add ARC architecture

2021-03-03 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 07:25:35PM +, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > Any chances to get updates on this one some time soon? No. The triplet cannot be changed once added. Therefore, the addition is often deferred. The absence of the triplet can easily be worked around. A bootstrap can be prototyped al

Re: ARC rebootstrap prereq (was Re: switching ARC to 64-bit time_t )

2021-02-26 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Vineet, On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 08:17:53PM +, Vineet Gupta wrote: > Checking in to see if things have change since my last posting on this > topic. Appreciated. I would have forgotten about arc. > Is glibc 2.32 now packaged for debian so we can attempt ARC rebootstrap ? Unfortunately, n

Re: ARC rebootstrap prereq (was Re: switching ARC to 64-bit time_t )

2020-08-26 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Vineet, On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 02:39:53PM +, Vineet Gupta wrote: > Following up as ARC glibc port was merged upstream in 2.32. Can we now give > rebootstrap a spin for ARC Debian enablement. That's great news. Unfortunately, it's not that easy yet. rebootstrap requires the relevant softwa

Re: ARC rebootstrap prereq (was Re: switching ARC to 64-bit time_t )

2020-03-26 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Alexey, On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 12:53:45PM +, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > Sorry for this stupid question but I'm not very familiar with use-cases for > libatomic-ops so would like to get some more clarification on what's needed > here. > > I know that GCC has quite a few built-ins for atomic

Re: ARC rebootstrap prereq (was Re: switching ARC to 64-bit time_t )

2020-03-26 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Alexey, On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:51:44AM +, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > I guess almost all of the packages you mentioned already have > needed improvements for ARC. I didn't mean to imply that anything was missing. I just mentioned those that usually need work without having checked any. >

Re: ARC rebootstrap prereq (was Re: switching ARC to 64-bit time_t )

2020-03-25 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Vineet, On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 05:25:58PM -0700, Vineet Gupta wrote: > ARC glibc is still in works, but assuming that will happen in near future what > other upstream prerequisites are needed. The obvious ones would be Linux > kernel, > gcc, binutils: all 3 of which are supported for ARC. Fro

Re: switching ARC to 64-bit time_t (Re: [RFC v6 07/23] RISC-V: Use 64-bit time_t and off_t for RV32 and RV64)

2020-02-20 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Arnd, On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 09:31:32AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > How do I build a latest RISCV 32-bit kernel + userland - do you have > > > a buildroot branch somewhere that I can build / test with qemu ? > > > > Maybe a bit off topic - there is such QEMU and Yocto/OE based test > > s