Re: Bug#703209: linux: Please Add multiplatform flavour to armhf

2013-05-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
I've updated the trunk branch in svn for Linux 3.9, so please go ahead with this. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If God had intended Man to program, we'd have been born with serial I/O ports. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world [was: Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard]

2013-05-06 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >> And neither is the same as the quality or sustainability of the >> resulting software. But if the product line will be be discontinued >> three months after its introduction, who cares about being able to >> maintain anything? > > Sounds

Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world [was: Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard]

2013-05-06 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > On 05/06/2013 07:08:44 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> >> > I suppose that ARM multi-platform will never cover all ARM CPUs, but >> > the more it covers, the easier and cheaper it will be to work with new >> > hardware and ARM. >> >>

Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world [was: Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard]

2013-05-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 03:01:58PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > And economies of scale are everything to hardware cost. Unit volume > amortizes the development (and often licensing) costs down, in the > long run who has the highest unit volume has the cheapest product. > Being able to reuse off the

Re: headless LAMP server buying advice: Beaglebone Black or Cubieboard

2013-05-06 Thread Leonardo Canducci
Il giorno 06/mag/2013 21:18, "Diego Roversi" ha scritto: > > On Mon, 6 May 2013 15:12:36 +0200 > Leonardo Canducci wrote: > > > > > I don't know exactly but I guess I need: > > - ethernet > > - 512MB ram or more > > - up-to-date CPU > > > > May I suggest a sheevaplug: http://www.globalscaletechno

Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world [was: Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard]

2013-05-06 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/06/2013 07:08:44 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > I suppose that ARM multi-platform will never cover all ARM CPUs, but > the more it covers, the easier and cheaper it will be to work with new > hardware and ARM. no. no, no no and wrong. absolutely dead wrong. you're complet

Re: changing the java default to java7, and dropping java support for some architectures

2013-05-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Matthias Klose dixit: >Currently java bindings/packages are built for all architectures, however some >architectures still use gcj as the (only available) Java implementation, and >some OpenJDK zero ports are non-functional at this point, and Debian porters >usually don't care about that. So the

Re: headless LAMP server buying advice: Beaglebone Black or Cubieboard

2013-05-06 Thread Diego Roversi
On Mon, 6 May 2013 15:12:36 +0200 Leonardo Canducci wrote: > > I don't know exactly but I guess I need: > - ethernet > - 512MB ram or more > - up-to-date CPU > May I suggest a sheevaplug: http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-46-sheevaplug-dev-kit.aspx ? I use one of this, and have a 1Gb

Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world

2013-05-06 Thread DrEagle
Le 06/05/2013 20:07, Mark Morgan Lloyd a écrit : > Strictly, it's Forth compiled into fcode; I'm not sure, but possibly also > used for drivers on PPC Mac disks etc. Whether or not one likes Forth as a > general-purpose language, it's definitely got its uses. PPC Mac disks drivers were pure asse

Re: headless LAMP server buying advice: Beaglebone Black or Cubieboard

2013-05-06 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Leonardo Canducci wrote: > 2013/5/6 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton : > >> sorry... you've confused me here. if debian only worked on one >> board, we would all be in trouble! >> >> oh i get it: you want a single board that happens to have upstream >> linux kernel s

Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world

2013-05-06 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 06:33:51PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: *click*. now some comments on #arm-netbooks make sense. such as "sparc has had device tree for 20 years". okay. i get it. Yes devicetree was invented as a way for embedded powerpc sys

Re: headless LAMP server buying advice: Beaglebone Black or Cubieboard

2013-05-06 Thread Leonardo Canducci
2013/5/6 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton : > sorry... you've confused me here. if debian only worked on one > board, we would all be in trouble! > > oh i get it: you want a single board that happens to have upstream > linux kernel support, such that debian is then in a position to > support _that_

Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world

2013-05-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 06:33:51PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > *click*. now some comments on #arm-netbooks make sense. such as > "sparc has had device tree for 20 years". okay. i get it. Yes devicetree was invented as a way for embedded powerpc systems to provide the same

Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world

2013-05-06 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > My understanding- and I admit freely that it's based on cursory research and > could be entirely wrong- is that DeviceTree is a derivative or at least a > spin-off of a group of projects which include IEEE 1275 aka OpenFirmware. *click*

Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world

2013-05-06 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: mark, thank for this. i'm bringing lkml back in [my decision] but just this once as i believe the point's now been made. i'm also leaving it below [top-post style] as it's background, as well as standing on its own merit. i was under the impression that devi

Re: headless LAMP server buying advice: Beaglebone Black or Cubieboard

2013-05-06 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Leonardo Canducci wrote: > 2013/5/6 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton : > >> kernel upgradeability on ARM devices is *never* easy :) at least on >> A10 devices it's not like you're spoiled for documentation and howtos. >> start from http://linux-sunxi.org and >> http:

Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world

2013-05-06 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
mark, thank for this. i'm bringing lkml back in [my decision] but just this once as i believe the point's now been made. i'm also leaving it below [top-post style] as it's background, as well as standing on its own merit. i was under the impression that device tree had been declared successful o

Re: changing the java default to java7, and dropping java support for some architectures

2013-05-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Matthias Klose, le Mon 06 May 2013 16:22:30 +0200, a écrit : > - hurd never had openjdk support, and afaik, nobody is working on that. There has been work towards this, notably by Jeremie Koenig. I don't know the status, we just have not made it a strong priority so far. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: headless LAMP server buying advice: Beaglebone Black or Cubieboard

2013-05-06 Thread DrEagle
Le 06/05/2013 14:53, Leonardo Canducci a écrit :> 2013/5/6 Brian Platt : >> Couple more are Shevalug, raspberry pi, pogoplug > They are all obsolete devices. Rpi need a recompiled OS (raspian) > while I'd like to use 'vanilla' debian. Why SheevaPlug may be obsolete ? Le 06/05/2013 15:12, Leonard

changing the java default to java7, and dropping java support for some architectures

2013-05-06 Thread Matthias Klose
It's time to change the Java default to java7, and to drop java support on architectures with non-working java7. Patches for the transition to Java7 should be available in the BTS, mostly submitted by James Page. Some may be still lurking around as diffs in Ubuntu packages, apologies for that. T

Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world

2013-05-06 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: And I have a question: as the Debian installer takes the arch armhf in charge, do you think a standard install' from a netboot image will work ? this has been on my list for a lng time. as with *all* debian installer images however you are hampered by the

Re: headless LAMP server buying advice: Beaglebone Black or Cubieboard

2013-05-06 Thread Leonardo Canducci
2013/5/6 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton : > kernel upgradeability on ARM devices is *never* easy :) at least on > A10 devices it's not like you're spoiled for documentation and howtos. > start from http://linux-sunxi.org and > http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/hacking_the_mele_a1000 and see >

Re: headless LAMP server buying advice: Beaglebone Black or Cubieboard

2013-05-06 Thread Leonardo Canducci
2013/5/6 Brian Platt : > Couple more are Shevalug, raspberry pi, pogoplug They are all obsolete devices. Rpi need a recompiled OS (raspian) while I'd like to use 'vanilla' debian. -- Leonardo Canducci -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: headless LAMP server buying advice: Beaglebone Black or Cubieboard

2013-05-06 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Leonardo Canducci wrote: > I hope I'm not OT... I'm a long time debian user but a total noob on arm. > > I'd like to set up a toy headless LAMP server on a chap single board > computer. I'd like to use debian (armhf I guess) and I'm looking for: > - decent specs >

Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world [was: Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard]

2013-05-06 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
james, hi - top-posting or not you make some valid points, and i don't believe you're subscribed to arm-netbooks so i'm going to take a liberty and reply briefly inline but keep most of what you've written intact, apologies to debian-arm and lkml. On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 10:04 AM, James Courtier-Du

Re: [Arm-netbook] device tree not the answer in the ARM world [was: Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard]

2013-05-06 Thread luke.leighton
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Oliver Schinagl wrote: > Note, I'm not qualified nor important or anything really to be part of > this discussion or mud slinging this may turn into, but I do fine some > flaws in the reasoning here that If not pointed out, may get grossly > overlooked. allo olive

Re: headless LAMP server buying advice: Beaglebone Black or Cubieboard

2013-05-06 Thread Brian Platt
Couple more are Shevalug, raspberry pi, pogoplug -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Leonardo Canducci wrote: I hope I'm not OT... I'm a long time debian user but a total noob on arm. I'd like to set up a toy headless LAMP server on a chap single board compute

Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world [was: Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard]

2013-05-06 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 06.05.2013 08:53, schrieb Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton: but the question you have to ask is: why should the HW designers even care? they're creating an embedded specialist system, they picked the most cost-effective and most available solution to them - why _should_ they care? and the a

headless LAMP server buying advice: Beaglebone Black or Cubieboard

2013-05-06 Thread Leonardo Canducci
I hope I'm not OT... I'm a long time debian user but a total noob on arm. I'd like to set up a toy headless LAMP server on a chap single board computer. I'd like to use debian (armhf I guess) and I'm looking for: - decent specs - painless installation - upgradablility (kernel and so on) I don't c

Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world [was: Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard]

2013-05-06 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
The real problem with any new system, is the hardware is designed and then it is a challenge for the software developer to get the software to boot on the new hardware. The nirvana here would be to take the original hardware circuit diagram, and process it to automatically create a config file. The

Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world [was: Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard]

2013-05-06 Thread Oliver Schinagl
Note, I'm not qualified nor important or anything really to be part of this discussion or mud slinging this may turn into, but I do fine some flaws in the reasoning here that If not pointed out, may get grossly overlooked. On 06-05-13 06:09, Robert Hancock wrote: On 05/05/2013 06:27 AM, Luke