Re: Gigabyte MP30-AR1

2016-09-09 Thread Michael Howard
On 10/09/2016 03:16, Phil Endecott wrote: Thanks for your replies. Yes I'm observing both serial and VGA outputs. Speaking for the AR0 version, the debian installer failed for that too, though I did install debian using the netboot vmlinux & initrd.gz from u-boot. I then used the centos kerne

Re: Gigabyte MP30-AR1

2016-09-09 Thread Wookey
On 2016-09-10 03:16 +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: > I've tried various different Debian installer images with the same result; > I'll look at what Linaro / Ubuntu / etc. have next. (Suggestions?) > > More important question - where are the people who understand this stuff? > Debian-EFI? Linaro? A

Re: Gigabyte MP30-AR1

2016-09-09 Thread Phil Endecott
Thanks for your replies. Yes I'm observing both serial and VGA outputs. Ronald Maas shared this earlycon magic: earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0x1c02 and now I can see how the Debian installer kernel fails: EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel... ConvertPages: Incompatible memory types EFI stub: EF

The (uncalled for) toolchain maintainers roll call for stretch

2016-09-09 Thread Matthias Klose
While the Debian Release team has some citation about the quality of the toolchain on their status page, it is not one of the release criteria documented by the release team. I'd like to document the status how I do understand it for some of the toolchains available in Debian. I appreciate that t

Re: Gigabyte MP30-AR1

2016-09-09 Thread Michael Howard
On 09/09/2016 18:29, Phil Endecott wrote: Dear Experts, I've splashed out and bought myself a Gigabyte MP30-AR1. This is a "server" board with an Applied Micro X-Gene processor. There are various reports of people installing distributions including Debian on the previous MP30-AR0. The differe

Re: Gigabyte MP30-AR1

2016-09-09 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 06:29:02PM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: > Dear Experts, > > I've splashed out and bought myself a Gigabyte MP30-AR1. This is > a "server" board with an Applied Micro X-Gene processor. > > There are various reports of people installing distributions including > Debian on th

Gigabyte MP30-AR1

2016-09-09 Thread Phil Endecott
Dear Experts, I've splashed out and bought myself a Gigabyte MP30-AR1. This is a "server" board with an Applied Micro X-Gene processor. There are various reports of people installing distributions including Debian on the previous MP30-AR0. The difference between the -AR0 and the -AR1 is that m

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-09-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
>>> Is anybody else interested in helping? Thoughts/comments? >> >>Sorry to bump an old thread >> >>Please consider moving to Clang 3.8 or 4.0 as the LLVM front end for >>the platform. >> >>Clang 3.5 and 3.6 are no longer maintained. The bugs we are >>discovering and reporting are being closed