Re: [opensuse-arm] openSUSE AArch64, 64k vs 4k PAGE_SIZE

2016-09-19 Thread Alexander Graf
On 19.09.16 13:21, Dirk Müller wrote: > Hi Alex, > > 2016-09-19 10:32 GMT+02:00 Alexander Graf : > >> Yes, but it's a can of worms that we have to open anyway unfortunately. >> Systems are growing and I doubt 42 bits are going to get us very far. > > sure, I still prefer to have tests, and eve

Re: [opensuse-arm] openSUSE AArch64, 64k vs 4k PAGE_SIZE

2016-09-19 Thread Dirk Müller
Hi Alex, 2016-09-19 10:32 GMT+02:00 Alexander Graf : > Yes, but it's a can of worms that we have to open anyway unfortunately. > Systems are growing and I doubt 42 bits are going to get us very far. sure, I still prefer to have tests, and even tests that are passing over just enablign something

Re: [opensuse-arm] openSUSE AArch64, 64k vs 4k PAGE_SIZE

2016-09-19 Thread David Sterba
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 03:49:33PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: > > We could have a patch like the one below in the kernel pre-install > > script, preventing people from breaking their systems, add notes on > > the wiki, maybe ask SoftIron to send emails to people who bought > > systems with Tumble

Re: [opensuse-arm] openSUSE AArch64, 64k vs 4k PAGE_SIZE

2016-09-19 Thread David Sterba
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 01:47:11PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > However, because we have people who have Leap 42.1 and current > Tumbleweed installed, we can’t just switch from 64k to 4k PAGE_SIZE, > because our friend btrfs embeds the page size into its on-disk format > and can only read it when

Re: [opensuse-arm] openSUSE AArch64, 64k vs 4k PAGE_SIZE

2016-09-19 Thread Alexander Graf
On 16.09.16 17:35, Dirk Müller wrote: > Hi Alex, > > 2016-09-15 13:47 GMT+02:00 Alexander Graf : > >> However, because we have people who have Leap 42.1 and current Tumbleweed >> installed, we can’t just switch from 64k to 4k PAGE_SIZE, because our friend >> btrfs embeds the page size into it

Re: [opensuse-arm] openSUSE AArch64, 64k vs 4k PAGE_SIZE

2016-09-16 Thread Dirk Müller
Hi Alex, 2016-09-15 13:47 GMT+02:00 Alexander Graf : > However, because we have people who have Leap 42.1 and current Tumbleweed > installed, we can’t just switch from 64k to 4k PAGE_SIZE, because our friend > btrfs embeds the page size into its on-disk format and can only read it when > they’

Re: [opensuse-arm] openSUSE AArch64, 64k vs 4k PAGE_SIZE

2016-09-15 Thread Alexander Graf
> On 16 Sep 2016, at 07:51, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 00:25:42 +0200, > Alexander Graf wrote: >> >> [...] How many "customers" does Leap 42.1 aarch64 have? I thought it's a tech preview, experiment, unsupported port, whatever? [...] >>> >>> If someone opts for a st

Re: [opensuse-arm] openSUSE AArch64, 64k vs 4k PAGE_SIZE

2016-09-15 Thread Alexander Graf
> On 15 Sep 2016, at 17:41, Andreas Färber wrote: > > Am 15.09.2016 um 16:55 schrieb Alexander Graf: >> On 15 Sep 2016, at 15:49, Andreas Färber wrote: >>> Am 15.09.2016 um 13:47 schrieb Alexander Graf: [...] because we have people who have Leap 42.1 and current Tumbleweed installed,

Re: [opensuse-arm] openSUSE AArch64, 64k vs 4k PAGE_SIZE

2016-09-15 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 15.09.2016 um 16:55 schrieb Alexander Graf: > On 15 Sep 2016, at 15:49, Andreas Färber wrote: >> Am 15.09.2016 um 13:47 schrieb Alexander Graf: >>> [...] because we have people who have Leap 42.1 and current Tumbleweed >>> installed, we can’t just switch from 64k to 4k PAGE_SIZE, because our

Re: [opensuse-arm] openSUSE AArch64, 64k vs 4k PAGE_SIZE

2016-09-15 Thread Andrew Wafaa
On 15 September 2016 at 13:47, Alexander Graf wrote: > Hello fellow openSUSE ARM developers, > > As you might have realized, we haven’t published openSUSE Tumbleweed in quite > some time. The biggest reason for that (among minor hickups) is that we’re > using btrfs on 64k PAGE_SIZE, which starte

Re: [opensuse-arm] openSUSE AArch64, 64k vs 4k PAGE_SIZE

2016-09-15 Thread Alexander Graf
> On 15 Sep 2016, at 15:49, Andreas Färber wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > Am 15.09.2016 um 13:47 schrieb Alexander Graf: >> [...] because we have people who have Leap 42.1 and current Tumbleweed >> installed, we can’t just switch from 64k to 4k PAGE_SIZE, because our friend >> btrfs embeds the page

Re: [opensuse-arm] openSUSE AArch64, 64k vs 4k PAGE_SIZE

2016-09-15 Thread Andreas Färber
Hi Alex, Am 15.09.2016 um 13:47 schrieb Alexander Graf: > [...] because we have people who have Leap 42.1 and current Tumbleweed > installed, we can’t just switch from 64k to 4k PAGE_SIZE, because our friend > btrfs embeds the page size into its on-disk format and can only read it when > they’r