Re: [Tails-dev] Shipping a 686-pae kernel

2012-10-02 Thread Ague Mill
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 05:50:05PM +0200, intrigeri wrote: > > What's your opinion? Should I proceed in adding a custom > > `python-dbus` to the multikernel branch? > > Please proceed: at least so that we can verify that this hack > workarounds the bug in various settings. Done. Merged in experim

Re: [Tails-dev] Shipping a 686-pae kernel

2012-10-02 Thread Ague Mill
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 08:42:37PM +0200, intrigeri wrote: > These Vagrant / memory tweaks made in the feature/multikernel branch > should be re-done there, as they conflicted with those made in > feature/vagrant and since then merged into devel, which I've just > merged back into feature/multikern

Re: [Tails-dev] Shipping a 686-pae kernel

2012-09-29 Thread intrigeri
anonym wrote (06 Sep 2012 09:18:03 GMT) : > 05/09/12 23:38, anonym wrote: >> 04/09/12 14:52, intrigeri: >>> So, I just merged the feature/multikernel branch into experimental. >> >> Built and so far tested in VirtualBox. > I forgot to say that this pushed the amount of RAM required to build > Tai

Re: [Tails-dev] Shipping a 686-pae kernel

2012-09-29 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Ague Mill wrote (28 Sep 2012 15:27:18 GMT) : > So my hack have been to add a call to `dbus_thread_init_default()` > in the initialization of the Python `dbus` module. And it looks like > it solve the issue. I have not been able to get the installer to > crash after installing the modified `pyt

Re: [Tails-dev] Shipping a 686-pae kernel

2012-09-28 Thread Ague Mill
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:57:06AM +0200, intrigeri wrote: > anonym wrote (27 Sep 2012 09:38:32 GMT) : > > This was in Tails built from feature/multikernel. > > Thank you. I updated the ticket accordingly. So, next step is: somehow > fix our USB installer vs. the 686-pae kernel. I'm not committing

Re: [Tails-dev] Shipping a 686-pae kernel

2012-09-27 Thread intrigeri
anonym wrote (27 Sep 2012 09:38:32 GMT) : > This was in Tails built from feature/multikernel. Thank you. I updated the ticket accordingly. So, next step is: somehow fix our USB installer vs. the 686-pae kernel. I'm not committing to do it any time soon.

Re: [Tails-dev] Shipping a 686-pae kernel

2012-09-27 Thread anonym
12/09/12 11:05, intrigeri wrote: > hi, > > anonym wrote (06 Sep 2012 18:27:37 GMT) : >> The crash occurs on my (64-bit) laptop. :/ > > Do you mean, on your own system (if so: both kernel / userspace > 64-bits? Debian Wheezy?) or within Tails feature/multikernel with the > 686-pae kernel? This wa

Re: [Tails-dev] Shipping a 686-pae kernel

2012-09-26 Thread alan
Hi, > From: intrigeri > Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:05:56 +0200 > [...] > > anonym wrote (06 Sep 2012 18:27:37 GMT) : > > The crash occurs on my (64-bit) laptop. :/ > > Do you mean, on your own system (if so: both kernel / userspace > 64-bits? Debian Wheezy?) or within Tails feature/multikernel

Re: [Tails-dev] Shipping a 686-pae kernel

2012-09-12 Thread intrigeri
hi, anonym wrote (06 Sep 2012 18:27:37 GMT) : > The crash occurs on my (64-bit) laptop. :/ Do you mean, on your own system (if so: both kernel / userspace 64-bits? Debian Wheezy?) or within Tails feature/multikernel with the 686-pae kernel? ___ tails-de

Re: [Tails-dev] Shipping a 686-pae kernel

2012-09-11 Thread intrigeri
anonym wrote (11 Sep 2012 15:32:01 GMT) : > 11/09/12 14:14, Ague Mill wrote: >> This does not feel right. The `ifcpu64.c32` module should be copied >> from the same syslinux package than the one that is going to be >> used later on by live-build, not by the one installed in the >> building system.

Re: [Tails-dev] Shipping a 686-pae kernel

2012-09-11 Thread anonym
11/09/12 14:14, Ague Mill wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 02:52:53PM +0200, intrigeri wrote: >> So, I just merged the feature/multikernel branch into experimental. > > Looks like `20-syslinux_detect_cpu` has an issue. In commit 0194501a7, > syslinux was added as a system-wide dependency (for Vagr

Re: [Tails-dev] Shipping a 686-pae kernel

2012-09-11 Thread Ague Mill
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 02:52:53PM +0200, intrigeri wrote: > So, I just merged the feature/multikernel branch into experimental. Looks like `20-syslinux_detect_cpu` has an issue. In commit 0194501a7, syslinux was added as a system-wide dependency (for Vagrant) to build Tails. This does not feel r

Re: [Tails-dev] Shipping a 686-pae kernel

2012-09-06 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:38 AM, anonym wrote: > This won't work. Even with PAE, processes cannot have more than 4 GB of > memory (after all, pointers are still 32 bit = 4 GB). > > [...] > > It's seems we still have to wait for Ague's wipe_memory GRUB module. You can stop suffering from the NIH s

Re: [Tails-dev] Shipping a 686-pae kernel

2012-09-06 Thread anonym
04/09/12 14:52, intrigeri wrote: > Hi, > > for various reasons (supporting big amounts of RAM, supporting >1 CPU > core, NX bit), we want to ship a 686-pae kernel in addition to the > current (486, non-SMP) one we already have, and make the bootloader > autodetect the most appropriate kernel depen

Re: [Tails-dev] Shipping a 686-pae kernel

2012-09-06 Thread intrigeri
anonym wrote (06 Sep 2012 09:18:03 GMT) : > I forgot to say that this pushed the amount of RAM required to build > Tails in-memory to over 6 GiB (at least when using Vagrant) so > I pushed commit 974805d to bump it to 7 GiB. I don't use Vagrant (yet?) so I don't care that much, but for those who h

Re: [Tails-dev] Shipping a 686-pae kernel

2012-09-06 Thread anonym
05/09/12 23:38, anonym wrote: > 04/09/12 14:52, intrigeri: >> So, I just merged the feature/multikernel branch into experimental. > > Built and so far tested in VirtualBox. I forgot to say that this pushed the amount of RAM required to build Tails in-memory to over 6 GiB (at least when using Vagr

Re: [Tails-dev] Shipping a 686-pae kernel

2012-09-05 Thread anonym
04/09/12 14:52, intrigeri: > Hi, > > for various reasons (supporting big amounts of RAM, supporting >1 CPU > core, NX bit), we want to ship a 686-pae kernel in addition to the > current (486, non-SMP) one we already have, and make the bootloader > autodetect the most appropriate kernel depending o

[Tails-dev] Shipping a 686-pae kernel

2012-09-04 Thread intrigeri
Hi, for various reasons (supporting big amounts of RAM, supporting >1 CPU core, NX bit), we want to ship a 686-pae kernel in addition to the current (486, non-SMP) one we already have, and make the bootloader autodetect the most appropriate kernel depending on what the CPU supports. Work towards