Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 03:40:16AM +0100, Wookey wrote: > I don't think you can re-use Debian arch names. They mean something > and if it's been used at all widely you can't just change it later (or > at least not for 10-20 years or so). (armeb was little-enough used > that we probably could change

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-12 Thread Paul Brook
> On 12/07/10 14:34, Paul Brook wrote: > > Anything that relies on the target triplet is going to break as soon > > as you move outside a pure Debian system. i.e. any patches relying on > > a particular target triplet are inherently Debian specific, and IMO > > should never be pushed upstream. > >

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-12 Thread Andrew Stubbs
On 12/07/10 14:34, Paul Brook wrote: Anything that relies on the target triplet is going to break as soon as you move outside a pure Debian system. i.e. any patches relying on a particular target triplet are inherently Debian specific, and IMO should never be pushed upstream. Which is why we're

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-12 Thread Paul Brook
> On 09/07/10 19:16, Hector Oron wrote: > >arm-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi > > This would be the path of least resistance. You can do this without > breaking much, and without annoying anybody upstream. You might need to > do a few hacks to various packages that want to know which ABI is in > use

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-12 Thread Andrew Stubbs
On 09/07/10 19:16, Hector Oron wrote: >arm-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi This would be the path of least resistance. You can do this without breaking much, and without annoying anybody upstream. You might need to do a few hacks to various packages that want to know which ABI is in use, but proba

R: Debian installer for SheevaPlug eSATA

2010-07-12 Thread Samuele Bianchi
Good day Martin. The ( only ) installer works fine, but i'm not be able to boot the system after the installation. This is the output: *** Marvell Serial ATA Adapter Integrated Sata device found [0 1 0]: Enable DMA mode Device 1 @ 0 1: Mod

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-12 Thread Loïc Minier
Hey Just wanted to raise that it might be wise to check whether any ABI changes or tweaks are in the pipe upstream before kicking a new port; it's not happening that frequently after all, so worth the extra burden. I'm happy to take action to check that with upstream GCC folks, and