Re: Impact of ARM kernel floating-point emulation removal on SS4000-E, Lanner EM7210, etc.

2013-04-26 Thread Maciej Soltysiak
Steve, Arnaud, thanks. Maciej On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Arnaud Patard wrote: > Steve McIntyre writes: > > Hi, > > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:04:17AM +0200, Maciej Soltysiak wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>Can anyone shed some light about current state of this ( > >>https://lwn.net/Articles/54

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:49:05PM +0200, Hector Oron wrote: > 2013/4/12 Raphael Hertzog : > > OffensiveSecurity owns a Calxeda Highbank cluster of ARM machines[1] and is > > willing to dedicate one of the nodes to Debian. > Thanks, that is a very kind offer and with ARM hat on, we cannot > rejec

RE: Debian on thecus N2100

2013-04-26 Thread Brian Platt
FINALLY got serial working on the N2100 and did debian install via it. Did the partitioning bit as always and then the formatting started up to 33% then this was outputed a few seconds later │ [ 953.24] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0009 [ 953.2

Re: the SoC GPU driver interview

2013-04-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 07:05:06PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > that assumes that there is a limited number of individuals in the > world with reverse-engineering skills: there isn't. i didn't have > reverse-engineering skills, but that didn't stop me from trying. > three years la

Re: the SoC GPU driver interview

2013-04-26 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Riku Voipio wrote: > Anyways, rather than push for more reverse engineering projects to get > started, I think we should concentrate in finishing the current projects. that assumes that there is a limited number of individuals in the world with reverse-engineer

Re: the SoC GPU driver interview

2013-04-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:49:36AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > This is a great interview with folks doing reverse engineering of ARM > GPU drivers and devices. > > http://blog.emmanueldeloget.com/index.php?post/2013/03/08/The-SoC-GPU-driver-interview Wonderful to see that many enthusiastic people w

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Hector Oron wrote: > * DSA hat: The machine shall not be a debian.org machine, so DSA could > export accounts if requested. > * Buildd hat: The machine shall not be used to run buildd software to > build official packages. Did you get those answers from the relevant teams? Was

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-26 Thread Rtp
Hector Oron writes: > Hello, > > 2013/4/12 Raphael Hertzog : > >> OffensiveSecurity owns a Calxeda Highbank cluster of ARM machines[1] and is >> willing to dedicate one of the nodes to Debian. > > Thanks, that is a very kind offer and with ARM hat on, we cannot > reject the offer, it makes it ver

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-26 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/4/12 Raphael Hertzog : > OffensiveSecurity owns a Calxeda Highbank cluster of ARM machines[1] and is > willing to dedicate one of the nodes to Debian. Thanks, that is a very kind offer and with ARM hat on, we cannot reject the offer, it makes it very interesting as a playground machi

Re: the SoC GPU driver interview

2013-04-26 Thread Riku Voipio
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 09:26:28AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > > This is a great interview with folks doing reverse engineering of ARM > > GPU drivers and devices. > > > > http://blog.emmanueldeloget.com/index.php?post/2013/03/08

Re: Impact of ARM kernel floating-point emulation removal on SS4000-E, Lanner EM7210, etc.

2013-04-26 Thread Rtp
Steve McIntyre writes: Hi, > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:04:17AM +0200, Maciej Soltysiak wrote: >>Hi, >> >>Can anyone shed some light about current state of this ( >>https://lwn.net/Articles/546840/) and >>potential impact on SS4000-E, Lanner EM720 and the likes? More precisely: >>- Is it going t

Re: the SoC GPU driver interview

2013-04-26 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > This is a great interview with folks doing reverse engineering of ARM > GPU drivers and devices. > > http://blog.emmanueldeloget.com/index.php?post/2013/03/08/The-SoC-GPU-driver-interview > > Only the PowerVR reverse engineering folks are missing

Re: Impact of ARM kernel floating-point emulation removal on SS4000-E, Lanner EM7210, etc.

2013-04-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:04:17AM +0200, Maciej Soltysiak wrote: >Hi, > >Can anyone shed some light about current state of this ( >https://lwn.net/Articles/546840/) and >potential impact on SS4000-E, Lanner EM720 and the likes? More precisely: >- Is it going to be removed or not (as Linus had obje

Impact of ARM kernel floating-point emulation removal on SS4000-E, Lanner EM7210, etc.

2013-04-26 Thread Maciej Soltysiak
Hi, Can anyone shed some light about current state of this ( https://lwn.net/Articles/546840/) and potential impact on SS4000-E, Lanner EM720 and the likes? More precisely: - Is it going to be removed or not (as Linus had objections) - Would that affect these boxes? I mean the Debian .config for