Re: Summary of the ARM ports BoF at DC15

2015-09-12 Thread Wookey
+++ Ian Campbell [2015-09-12 15:55 +0100]: > The other two subarches in the kernel are orion5x and versatile. I have > no personal interest in either. My gut suggests that orion5x (the > Marvell variant prior to kirkwood) is the one people might more > plausibly still be interested in, but I don't

Re: nodejs on arm64 now in experimental

2015-09-12 Thread Wookey
+++ Edmund Grimley Evans [2015-09-11 16:25 +0100]: > > So it would probably just be best to drop armel from nodejs.. > > I would guess that depends on how much work is involved and whether > there is someone willing to do the work. Or does Policy forbid > packages that fail gracefully on some hard

Re: Summary of the ARM ports BoF at DC15

2015-09-12 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:58:42 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Summary: if people care about armel for Stretch, they should make > noise NOW and convince people it's needed and can/should be supported > in future. I think it would be a pity if we wouldn't support kirkwoord devices such as those QNAP

Re: Summary of the ARM ports BoF at DC15

2015-09-12 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2015-09-11 at 16:58 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > armel > = > > [...] > Known worries/issues: > > * Kernel size due to very restrictive flash space; has been a >problem, but not believed to be affecting current users so much >now. Several problematic sub-arches have been dr

Re: flash-kernel puts QNAP on its knees

2015-09-12 Thread Rob J. Epping
On 11-9-2015 9:51, JM wrote: > On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Rob J. Epping wrote: > >> I hacked flash-kernel to use flashcp from mtd-utils. Where using cat >> triggers ATA timeout and reset, using flashcp worked flawlessly. >> >> >> GRTNX, >> RobJE > > That's great news! Would you mind sharing