Re: armel after Stretch (was: Summary of the ARM ports BoF at DC16)

2016-12-08 Thread Christoph Biedl
Roger Shimizu wrote... > I'm ARM porter on armel/marvell (orion5x/kirkwood). > Stretch will be frozen and released soon, which makes me bit depressed, > because it means armel will be dropped out of unstable/testing as the > conclusion of Cape Town BoF. Same here. My Dockstars (orion5x/kirkwood

Re: armel after Stretch

2016-12-08 Thread Roger Shimizu
Dear Steve, Thanks for your comments! Very informative! On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 12:53 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > There are kernel helpers available to provide some atomic support, but > they'll be very slow compared to real hardware support at this level. Are those kernel helper already reach

Re: Routers with multiple "dirty" interfaces

2016-12-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 07/12/16 17:00, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Potentially, the bearers come up and go down in an arbitrary sequence, with each event triggering a small number of iptables commands. When the a) Am I correct in believing that Debian's handling of /etc/network/interfaces is single-threaded (non-re