Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

2014-04-27 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 21:10 +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > A uImage is a historic u-boot container format containing a Linux zImage > (also often called a "vmlinuz"), which was booted using the "bootm" > command. This is no long

Bug#746198: unar fails to extract test rar on arm.

2014-04-27 Thread peter green
Package: unar Version: 1.1-2 Severity: important x-debbugs-cc: debian-arm@lists.debian.org I recently got the following report from a raspbian wheezy user (https://bugs.launchpad.net/raspbian/+bug/1165466). Using the simple test file found at http://www.maximumcompression.com/data/files/text-

Debian Jessie on TS-209 II Pro - no network problem

2014-04-27 Thread tpsamw1
Hello, Yesterday I've upgraded Debian from stable release to testing (Jessie). It was fine for some time, today I've reinstalled qcontrol - I don't know why, but with reinstalling qcontrol installer started to flash kernel image (maybe it wasn't flashed for first time?). After booting device ne

Re: Raspbian user claims openswan is broken after security update.

2014-04-27 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 05:41:21PM +0100, peter green wrote: > We recently received a bug report from a raspbian user claiming that the > recent security update rendered his Pi unable to connect to his openswan > server. > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/raspbian/+bug/1304674 > > I have not filed a

Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

2014-04-27 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 21:10 +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 20:32 +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: > >> > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 07:35

Re: Define for arm64?

2014-04-27 Thread Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
Hi, You can use '__aarch64__' as 64bit of arm. Best regards, Nobuhiro 2014-04-28 3:58 GMT+09:00 Helge Kreutzmann : > Hello, > I'm (upstream) maintainer of a little "tool" (consider it a toy ...) > called linuxinfo. It currently does not support arm64. For general arm > support I use the follow

Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

2014-04-27 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 21:04 +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: >> > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 03:52:36PM +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton >> > wrote: >> >> On Sat, Apr 26, 2

Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

2014-04-27 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 20:32 +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: >> > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 07:35:35AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >> >> On Sat, 2014-04-26 at 23:25 +0200, Karst

Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

2014-04-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 21:04 +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 03:52:36PM +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > > wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: > >> > Hello, > >> >

Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

2014-04-27 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 03:52:36PM +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I am currently working on better support for sunxi-based ARM systems >> > in d-i

Define for arm64?

2014-04-27 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, I'm (upstream) maintainer of a little "tool" (consider it a toy …) called linuxinfo. It currently does not support arm64. For general arm support I use the following compiler directive: #if defined(__arm__) #define system_arm #endif This does not catch arm64, however. What is the correct t

Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

2014-04-27 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 20:32 +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 07:35:35AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >> On Sat, 2014-04-26 at 23:25 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > > > >> No uImage is required for sunxi,

Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

2014-04-27 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 20:14 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > I did not know that u-boot can boot "naked" Linux kernels. I am > rather new to u-boot and all the documention I have read only > mentions booting uImages. Neither the description of > u-boot-sunxi in the sunxi wiki nor the official u-boot

Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

2014-04-27 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 07:35:35AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >> On Sat, 2014-04-26 at 23:25 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > >> No uImage is required for sunxi, no uImage is required for sunxi but a uImage is required for *debian installer*

Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

2014-04-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 04:54:40PM +0100, peter green wrote: > Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >Why would you NOT use uImage? > Why would you add an unnessacery conversion step if you have a > bootloader capable of loading regular kernel images directly? Well uImage has a checksum, which u-boot can chec

Raspbian user claims openswan is broken after security update.

2014-04-27 Thread peter green
We recently received a bug report from a raspbian user claiming that the recent security update rendered his Pi unable to connect to his openswan server. https://bugs.launchpad.net/raspbian/+bug/1304674 I have not filed a bug report in debian because i've no idea if this is raspbian specific

Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

2014-04-27 Thread peter green
Lennart Sorensen wrote: Why would you NOT use uImage? Why would you add an unnessacery conversion step if you have a bootloader capable of loading regular kernel images directly? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

2014-04-27 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 16:54 +0100, peter green wrote: > Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > Why would you NOT use uImage? > > > Why would you add an unnessacery conversion step if you have a > bootloader capable of loading regular kernel images directly? Exactly. We don't want to have to needlessly c

Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

2014-04-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 07:35:35AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > No uImage is required for sunxi, u-boot can boot the vmlinuz file > directly. Besides flash-kernel converts vmlinuz to uImage nicely for you so it isn't a problem. The kernel package doesn't seem to ship uImage files for anything any

Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

2014-04-27 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently working on better support for sunxi-based ARM systems > in d-i and flash-kernel. Thanks to Ian's backport of the sunxi AHCI > support from kernel 3.15rc1 into the Debian 3.14 kernel package (as > of linux-image-3.

Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

2014-04-27 Thread Alexey Eromenko
The biggest problem of Allwinner A20 systems so far, is the sound driver. I'm using sunxi 3.4 kernel, and the sound can simply refuse to work or stuck after 1 song. Especially with VLC player. -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" sent from Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet

Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

2014-04-27 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 07:35 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sat, 2014-04-26 at 23:25 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > > I am currently working on better support for sunxi-based ARM systems > > in d-i and flash-kernel. I replied in a hurry earlier and forgot to say: Thanks! Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIB