Re: ARM summit at Plumbers 2011

2011-08-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Last big cross-post; I'll just post to the cross-distro list in future! ] On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 05:11:34PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 07:15:34PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> [ARM summit at Plumbers, Thursday 8th September] > >UPDATE: we've not had many people

Re: ARMHF

2011-08-31 Thread Hector Oron
2011/8/31 Alessio Sangalli : > On 08/31/2011 05:41 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >> Kernel images are not done yet (on the ports to do list).  Hence install >> images are not done yet either (they need kernels after all). > > I have my own kernel, with the specific drivers for this SoC and so > on.

Re: ARMHF

2011-08-31 Thread Alessio Sangalli
On 08/31/2011 05:41 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Kernel images are not done yet (on the ports to do list). Hence install > images are not done yet either (they need kernels after all). I have my own kernel, with the specific drivers for this SoC and so on... how would you suggest to proceed? b

Re: ARMHF

2011-08-31 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 01:49:45PM +0100, Hector Oron wrote: > You should be able to run debootstrap or multistrap against > debian-ports.org armhf port (but better use a mirror as master is > quite slow). > > Sorry, debian-ports.org have some mx5 and omap kernel packages for armhf. Oh I must not

Re: My progress on armhf: xf86-video-msm for armhf attempt. Please test.

2011-08-31 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 01:49:49PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote: > Interworking is a madatory of the ARM EABI. As mentioned above, interworking > is basically free on armv5 and later architectures. It should never be > disabled. Wel the gcc in armhf has it off by default, and the description says i

Re: My progress on armhf: xf86-video-msm for armhf attempt. Please test.

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Brook
> > Is that true? For ARMv7, interworking is essentially free and Thumb code > > would likely be faster due to its smaller memory footprint. So I would > > have thought that not only should Thumb code be catered for, but > > actively encouraged. Or am I missing something? > > We only use thumb2 in

Re: ARMHF

2011-08-31 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/8/31 Lennart Sorensen : > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 09:25:26PM -0700, Alessio Sangalli wrote: >> Hi I have a new ARM board with a dual Cortex-A9 CPU. I was wondering if >> I can already do an ARMHF netinstall or find a base Debian ARMHF system >> to mount on a USB memory stick to test...

Re: ARMHF

2011-08-31 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 09:25:26PM -0700, Alessio Sangalli wrote: > Hi I have a new ARM board with a dual Cortex-A9 CPU. I was wondering if > I can already do an ARMHF netinstall or find a base Debian ARMHF system > to mount on a USB memory stick to test... Kernel images are not done yet (on the p

Re: My progress on armhf: xf86-video-msm for armhf attempt. Please test.

2011-08-31 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 07:23:18AM +0100, Tixy wrote: > Is that true? For ARMv7, interworking is essentially free and Thumb code > would likely be faster due to its smaller memory footprint. So I would > have thought that not only should Thumb code be catered for, but > actively encouraged. Or am I

Re: My progress on armhf: xf86-video-msm for armhf attempt. Please test.

2011-08-31 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 31 August 2011 10:55, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 07:23:18AM +0100, Tixy wrote: >>On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 23:34 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >>> My changes were to remove -mfpu=softfp and -mthumb-interworking, since >>> as far as I can tell armhf uses -mfpu=hardfp and -mno-t

Re: My progress on armhf: xf86-video-msm for armhf attempt. Please test.

2011-08-31 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 31 August 2011 11:56, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=vfpv3 -mthumb -march=armv7-a That should actually be -mfpu=vfpv3-d16 to be more precise. Konstantinos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: My progress on armhf: xf86-video-msm for armhf attempt. Please test.

2011-08-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 07:23:18AM +0100, Tixy wrote: >On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 23:34 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >> My changes were to remove -mfpu=softfp and -mthumb-interworking, since >> as far as I can tell armhf uses -mfpu=hardfp and -mno-thumbinterworking >> by default. > >Is that true? For