Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-21 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Sebastian, (Apologies for delay, I starting drafting the email, but I had to leave and never got back to it until now) > Was there a conclusion to the discussion on d-arm@l.d.o? There was a compelling reason to do at least one more armel release to have at least one official release with t

Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-06 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Adrian, On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 at 09:39, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Should Debian drop armel from the upcoming Debian release? > > While I understand the reasoning behind it, also having read Arnd's mail, I > don't > understand why these decisions rarely consider the environment and

RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-07-31 Thread Hector Oron
[ {debian-kernel,debian-boot,debian-release}@d.o are in Bcc so they can track follow up emails at debian-arm ML if interested. ] Dear fellow developers, Debian Installer no longer produces daily builds for this platform: - https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armel/ Debian Linux kernel packages a

Ampere upcoming donation

2019-12-12 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, This is just a heads-up that Ampere has reached out to Debian and they are willing to donate some ARM64 server hardware to Debian. Reference datasheet for machines: - https://amperecomputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Lenovo_ThinkSystem_HR330A_PB_20190409.pdf - https://ampere

Re: Gigabyte MP30-AR1 followup

2016-10-14 Thread Hector Oron
Hi Phil, Apologies for a late reply. Let me, at least try to explain what we got to... We have BMC 3.62 and update machine to 3.64 firmware version, then updated ROM to different versions from mp30ar1.D05.RBU to current mp30ar1.D7b.RBU. There should be a DT attached to those ROM updates, w

Re: Gigabyte MP30-AR1

2016-09-13 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Phil, 2016-09-12 15:58 GMT+02:00 Phil Endecott : >> Which BMC firmware are you using? AFAIK there is a broken DTB in the >> manufacturer's firmware > > > I replaced the shipped UEFI firmware (version D03 I think) with version > F01 from http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=

Re: Gigabyte MP30-AR1

2016-09-12 Thread Hector Oron
ne should boot. Then I had issues which I have been unable to investigate yet when finding the storage disk to install the rootfs. > EFI stub: Exiting boot services and installing virtual address map... > OSBootEvent = Success > L3c Cache: 8MB Regards, -- Hector Oron

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-15 Thread Hector Oron
[Add to CC debian-wb-team@ and r...@debian.org] Hello, 2016-06-05 12:01 GMT+02:00 Niels Thykier : > Hi members of DSA, Security, RT and all porters. > > While the freeze still seem far away, I think it is time to start with > the architecture qualifications. Excellent! Thanks I tried to follow

Re: Native kernel build produces armhf on armel system

2016-03-22 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2016-03-21 13:33 GMT+01:00 Ian Campbell : > Hopefully checking ARCH_MULTI_* would be sufficient, rather than > needing to list all the (many many) CPU_*. That relies on a sufficient > number of platforms being multi arch enabled, IIRC all v7 ones are now, > so lack of an ARCH_MULTI_* would

Re: linux-image-4.1.0-0.bpo.1-kirkwood requires flash-kernel from testing on some devices

2015-09-17 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2015-09-15 22:16 GMT+02:00 Rick Thomas : > On Sep 3, 2015, at 7:01 AM, Renato Caldas wrote: >> After updating the kernel from 3.16 (stable) to 4.1 (bpo), I was >> unable to boot. A similar problem (and solution) was described here: >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2015/05/msg00073.h

Re: Bug#796855: gcc-5: guile-2.0 fails to build with offset problem on armel

2015-09-04 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2015-09-04 3:38 GMT+02:00 Rob Browning : > Rob Browning writes: > >> You mean -O0, perhaps? > > Actually, there may be a mistake in the current rules file which is > causing it to always build without an -O flag... > > Changing the rules to work correctly (to use -O2 as you mentioned) > ap

Re: gcc-5: guile-2.0 fails to build with offset problem on armel

2015-09-03 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2015-08-31 23:08 GMT+02:00 Moritz Muehlenhoff : > I'm adding debian-arm to CC, can any of the armel porters please look into > this? I have done a quick test on abel.debian.org. Here the results: We seem to hint a bug in the optimizer leading to bogus assembler... /tmp/ccLL4a9g.s: Asse

Fwd: Bug#762620: gdb: stack corruption on armhf (and armel?)

2014-09-23 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, May some of you, porters, could help debugging the following issue: -- Forwarded message -- From: Niko Tyni Date: 2014-09-23 21:39 GMT+02:00 Subject: Bug#762620: gdb: stack corruption on armhf (and armel?) To: sub...@bugs.debian.org Package: gdb Version: 7.7.1+dfsg-3

Re: Updating the installation guide, arm platform support

2014-04-29 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2014-03-20 19:26 GMT+01:00 Karsten Merker : [...] > This is the commit that has removed the code: > > commit c7c29b3aeb318b9efe3035cacf42800dfe2970f5 > Author: Matt Sealey > Date: Wed Aug 1 12:49:30 2012 -0500 > > ARM: efikamx: remove Genesi Efika MX platform files from the t

Re: Proposed changes to installer for armhf

2014-04-29 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2014-04-28 12:26 GMT+02:00 Ian Campbell : > On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 19:06 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 08:42:23AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >> > Aside: "EfikaMX" is listed in 2.1.2.4 as no longer supported, but we do >> > supply a specific image for it using the a

Re: Bits from ARM porters

2013-12-03 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/12/3 Dmitrijs Ledkovs : > On 2 December 2013 23:08, Hector Oron wrote: >> 5 arm64 Debian port support >> ═══ >> >> If Debian is unable to find ARM 64-bit hardware before Jessie gets >> frozen, it likely won't be

Re: Bits from ARM porters

2013-12-03 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/12/3 Aurelien Jarno : > On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 12:43:36AM +0100, Hector Oron wrote: >> 5.2 Setup arm64 debian-ports >> >> >> ⁃ arm64 setup as new bootstrapping port >> ⁃ manual builds could be uploaded but pos

Bits from ARM porters

2013-12-02 Thread Hector Oron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello, (Re-sending with appropriate charset) Find below some bits collected while ARM sprint in Cambridge, UK. < https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Miniconf-UK/2013 > If you would like further information or discussion on any of the topics, pl

Bits from ARM porters

2013-12-02 Thread Hector Oron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello, Find below some bits collected while ARM sprint in Cambridge, UK. < http://titanpad.com/debian-arm > If you would like further information or discussion on any of the topics, please follow up at debian-arm or any relevant mailing list

Re: Proposal to replace/extend current armhf builders

2013-11-15 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/11/15 Konstantinos Margaritis : >> On the other side of things, Boston guys are aware of our interests >> and they need to do some internal discussion and maybe allocate some >> budget for special price or donation, I'll come back with more once >> they let us know. Also, it appears t

Re: Further trimming of ARM NAS kernel images

2013-11-15 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Ben, 2013/11/11 Ben Hutchings : > As the Linux kernel has continued to grow, in Linux 3.12 the iop32x and > ixp4xx kernel images have again exceeded the size limits for the target > machines. > > [Note, all figures here are based on the emdebian gcc-4.7 cross-compiler > whereas we'll actuall

Re: Proposal to replace/extend current armhf builders

2013-11-15 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/11/15 Konstantinos Margaritis : > Riku Voipio wrote: >> Wearing my armel buildd maintainer hat, I don't feel the same urgency >> as you seem to have - perhaps that's because the armel buildd'd are >> less ram-starved than the locos? > > Yeah, you're spoiled, iirc, one buildd has 3GB

Re: Dropping valgrind from armel?

2013-10-24 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/10/24 Alessandro Ghedini : > Hence the idea: what about dropping valgrind from armel? Or alternatively, is > there anyone who cares about valgrind on armel and wants to debug and try to > fix this (possibly without making the original kinda ugly hack any worse)? If interested, also c

Re: armhf d-i switched to armmp only, no armhf daily builds happening? (Was: Re: Uploading linux (3.11.5-1))

2013-10-24 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/10/20 Cyril Brulebois : > Ian Campbell (2013-10-19): [...] > I'm not sure about ancina, but at least hasse had disc issues. Not sure > what the status is, but the right contact would usually be $arch@buildd, > added. Thanks for heads-up! I'll have a look during this week. Cheers, --

Re: [PATCH 1/2] deb-pkg: Add automatic support for armhf architecture

2013-10-24 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/10/13 Ben Hutchings : > On Tue, 2013-10-08 at 02:23 +0200, Hector Oron wrote: >> Hello, >> >> 2013/10/6 Ben Hutchings : >> > The Debian armhf architecture uses the ARM EABI hard-float variant, >> > whereas armel uses the soft-float variant.

Re: [PATCH 1/2] deb-pkg: Add automatic support for armhf architecture

2013-10-07 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/10/6 Ben Hutchings : > The Debian armhf architecture uses the ARM EABI hard-float variant, > whereas armel uses the soft-float variant. Although the kernel > doesn't use FP itself, CONFIG_VFP must be enabled to support > hard-float userland and will probably be disabled when supportin

Re: ARM Sprint (Re: Arm bof and raspbian.)

2013-08-25 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/8/24 Jeremiah C. Foster : > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 04:01:06AM +0200, Hector Oron wrote: >> Source (org-mode): >> < http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/zumbi/debian-org.git > >> < git://anonscm.debian.org/users/zumbi/debian-org.git > >

Re: Removing armel from the list of arches we build for

2013-08-22 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/8/22 Loïc Minier : > FWIW, the Calxeda boxes are armhf and armel capable and make a massive > difference in buildd performance (good SATA I/O, 4G of RAM, SMP); these > aren't exactly cheap (yet?), but I definitely wish Debian armel and > armhf builds all eventually move to server clas

ARM Sprint (Re: Arm bof and raspbian.)

2013-08-21 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/8/17 Wookey : > +++ peter green [2013-08-16 11:53 +0100]: >> Finally it's not strictly related to anything else mentioned here >> but someone mentioned a mini-debconf in cambridge, can anyone tell >> me where I can find more details. > https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Miniconf-UK/2013 >

Re: Removing armel from the list of arches we build for

2013-08-21 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/8/21 Joey Hess : > Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: >> armel has been one of the sore points of maintaining WebKit in Debian. >> It often fails to build the package because of lack of memory or disk >> space. I'm told by my colleague Hector Oron that WebKit

Re: linaro ld works, but debian ld does not

2013-08-12 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Stephen, 2013/8/9 Stephen Kelly : > After compiling a file I can attempt to link it while passing a --sysroot > argument. With my linaro ld, this works, but not with my debian ld (can not > find libc.so.6): Debian does not provide cross-ld. Could you please tell where did you get your cros

Re: ipa.debian.net: new armhf and armel porterbox

2013-08-10 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, > < https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=ipa > The machine shall be down for few days, while we do maintenance works on it. Regards, -- Héctor Orón -.. . -... .. .- -. -.. . ...- . .-.. --- .--. . .-. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Building armhf/armel in same machines (was Re: Dropping support for the smallest armel machines)

2013-07-11 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/7/5 Ansgar Burchardt : > [ Please CC me in replies. I'm not subscribed to the list. ] > On 06/27/2013 19:22, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 04:39:15PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> Bet they're slower than QEMU versatile emulation on an x86. And DSA >>> loves virtu

Re: Dropping support for the smallest armel machines

2013-06-27 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/6/27 Ben Hutchings : > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 04:39:15PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 03:13:48PM +0200, Arnaud Patard wrote: >> > Ben Hutchings writes: >> > btw, iop32x is used on n2100 which are used on buildd/porter boxes. If >> > we stop supporting it, I

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-06-27 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/6/27 Luca Filipozzi : > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 07:27:54PM +, David Power wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 09:56:51AM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: >> > My main concern is that having a single node as buildd without another >> > for development purposes means that we don't have easy

Raspbian checks and question for Jessie

2013-05-30 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Peter, I have been trying to find a reference on which checks runs Raspbian on binaries to verify those are properly built for armv6hf. Also, I think I have already asked you such question, could you please remind me about those? Regarding Raspbian for Jessie, would it be nice to add a

Re: Debian Wheezy, u-boot and armhf installation

2013-05-18 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Paul, 2013/5/12 Paul MARCHAND : > I've got an efika MX running a version of wheezy built by genesi, i > would like to switch on the original debian. By the way i would like to > encrypt my disk (the rootfs) > > I'm asking me how can i do it ? > I found some initrd and uimage on the mirrors.

ipa.debian.net: new armhf and armel porterbox

2013-05-18 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, Please find publicly available ipa.debian.net, a Calxeda Highbank Quad Core Cortex-A9 with 4GB RAM node donated to Debian by Offensive Security. The machine node is available to all Debian Developers. Find available instructions on how to use porter chroots in message of the day (motd).

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-29 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/4/26 Raphael Hertzog : > On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Hector Oron wrote: >> * DSA hat: The machine shall not be a debian.org machine, so DSA could >> export accounts if requested. >> * Buildd hat: The machine shall not be used to run buildd software to >> build of

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-26 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/4/12 Raphael Hertzog : > OffensiveSecurity owns a Calxeda Highbank cluster of ARM machines[1] and is > willing to dedicate one of the nodes to Debian. Thanks, that is a very kind offer and with ARM hat on, we cannot reject the offer, it makes it very interesting as a playground machi

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

2013-04-08 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/4/2 Nobuhiro Iwamatsu : > Then, the two candidates have come armmp and armv7. > Which do you like? > if there is no other opinions, I would want to decide on armmp. armmp ++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Add new armhf flavor armada370xp

2013-03-07 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/3/7 Arnaud Patard : > Steve McIntyre writes: >> On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 09:27:42AM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: >>>I hope we could be more ambitious and enter the single zImage / >>>multiplatform setup early. We could start by simply calling the >>>armada370 / armadaxp flavour "multipla

Re: How to install Debian on MCIMX53-START-R

2012-07-07 Thread Hector Oron
Hi Gregor, 2012/7/6 Gregor Jasny : > Thank you for this hint. I was able to build an image and dd'ed it to the > micro SD card. On the serial console I could watch the boot process but > noticed some warnings and errors: > > [1.248177] > /build/buildd-linux_3.2.21-3-armhf-ki0aTS/linux-3.2.21/

Re: __aeabi_unwind_cpp_pr1@GCC_3.5

2012-06-11 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Bernhard, 2012/6/8 Bernhard R. Link : > A large number of packages (I guess around 800-900) > generates the following warning on armel and armhf at build time: > > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol __aeabi_unwind_cpp_pr1@GCC_3.5 used by > FILENAME found in none of the libraries. > > and/or the

Re: armel qualification for Wheezy

2012-05-19 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Luk, 2012/5/19 Luk Claes : > As everyone keeps claiming there is no armel buildd location redundancy, > I don't have much motivation to keep ancina running. It's ignored anyway. I sent you an email about it as well, ancina is doing d-i armel builds and currently armel is lagging a bit behi

Re: armel *and* armhf qualification for Wheezy

2012-05-18 Thread Hector Oron
t;>as would any other information you think is relevant to helping us >>determine armel's status for the release. > Currently each has only 3 porters listed: > >  * Riku Voipio, Wookey, Colin Tuckley >  * Steve McIntyre, Julian Andres Klode, Hector Oron I think Kons

Re: Making an armhf kernel package.

2012-05-09 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, 2012/5/9 Arnaud Patard : > "Paul Kench" writes: >> When I try and build a debian packaged kernel/modules with the deb-pkg >> target, the package builds but it builds an armel package that complains >> around architecture when trying to install. I am building natively on the >> Mele. > deb-p

Re: armel v4t vs v5

2012-04-19 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, 2012/4/18 Wookey : > +++ Martin Guy [2012-04-18 14:30 +0200]: >> On 17 April 2012 18:36, Wookey wrote: >> > debian armel is currently >> > built for v4t but is likely to move forward to v5 at some point. >> >> -1 as we have and others have products that are arm4vt and that ship >> with Debian

Re: ARM kernel cross compilation issues for iMX53

2012-03-26 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2012/3/25 Lennart Sorensen : > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 04:13:22PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> They're fine for us. I started using the Freescale 2.6.35 kernel, then >> moved over to mainline with 3.2.0. Networking and SATA work fine >> there, but USB is still not quite there yet... > A

Re: Bug#649912: eclipse 3.7.1 armel - build success

2012-02-23 Thread Hector Oron
e, as I see openjdk-7 is built for armel, while there are some installability brokeness with openjdk-6 on armel. Also armel kernel has not yet been upgraded. Regards, -- Hector Oron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: [kbibtex] FTBS on armel

2012-02-16 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2012/2/16 Bastien ROUCARIES : > Any news of this bug It has not been fixed. It is reproducible on porterbox with latest software versions in SID. [ 53%] Building CXX object src/gui/CMakeFiles/kbibtexgui.dir/kbibtexgui_automoc.o cd /home/zumbi/kbibtex-0.4/obj-arm-linux-gnueabi/src/gui && /

Re: armhf installer?

2012-02-10 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Peter, 2012/2/9 peter green : > E: Unable to locate package kernel-image-3.1.0-1-mx5-di > E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'kernel-image-3.1.0-1-mx5-di' > Are the errors i'm seeing just caused by ongoing kernel transitions in sid > or are they indicative of a bigger problem? That's mo

Re: Wanted: superstar hacker to complete Mono port to armhf

2012-02-02 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Jo, I am forwarding the message to a couple mailing lists which might have people interested on the Mono porting for ARM hard-float ABI. 2012/2/2 Jo Shields : > Right now, Mono is available in Debian armhf. This is a hack - what > we're actually doing is building Mono as an armhf binary, bu

Re: Bug#649912: eclipse 3.7.1 armel - build success

2012-02-02 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2012/2/2 Niels Thykier : > We would like to try a build of eclipse on arm{el,hf}.  However, it may > require a kernel upgrade on the buildds[1].  As far as I can tell, > linux-2.6/3.2.1-1 carries those patches[2]. We are aware of it, build daemons are not yet ready, we will proceed with i

Re: winff fails to build on Armel: unit path of lazarus points to 0.9.30 i.s.o. 0.9.30.2

2012-01-18 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2012/1/14 Paul Gevers : > So basically my questions are: > Abou: 1) Where do the the paths get set for the units, as I believe I > don't set them in my package (as on all other architectures there are no > problems at all). > Abou: 2) Do you have any idea how to solve this problem (in Lazar

Re: python-enchant is not importable in python 2.6 on armhf. Any idea which package is at fault?

2011-12-25 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/12/25 peter green : > So would the reasonable thing to do be to binnmu it and see if the problem > goes away? Done and problem does not go away, but installing `libenchant-dev' makes the error go away. It looks like to me that `scim-python' build-deps are missing `libenchant-dev', w

Re: python-enchant is not importable in python 2.6 on armhf. Any idea which package is at fault?

2011-12-25 Thread Hector Oron
Hello again, 2011/12/25 peter green : > While investigating the build failure of scim-python on armhf I discovered > that importing enchant with python 2.6 fails on armhf > > root@debian:/# python2.6 -c "import enchant" > Traceback (most recent call last): >  File "", line 1, in >  File "/usr/lib

Re: python-enchant is not importable in python 2.6 on armhf. Any idea which package is at fault?

2011-12-25 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Peter, 2011/12/25 peter green : > While investigating the build failure of scim-python on armhf I discovered > that importing enchant with python 2.6 fails on armhf > > root@debian:/# python2.6 -c "import enchant" > Traceback (most recent call last): >  File "", line 1, in >  File "/usr/lib

Re: debian-installer -> cross-compile to armel?

2011-12-14 Thread Hector Oron
tached [2]. Then, we wanted to talk to you about getting this stuff into mainline vs your work. Solving this blocker, getting official debian-installer support should be doable, so any work towards adding dreamplug into mainline kernel is welcome. [1] dreamplug.patch [2] u-boot.patch Cheers, -- He

Re: Bug#635126: status of ruby 1.9.1 wrt porting

2011-12-05 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Lennart, 2011/12/5 Lennart Sorensen : > I tried adding armhf to the list of archs needing -fno-tree-sra, and it > made no difference at all.  Exact same crash in the same place. Yes, that matches my tests. Thanks very much for trying. --  Héctor Orón  -.. . -... .. .- -.   -.. . ...- . .

Re: Bug#635126: status of ruby 1.9.1 wrt porting

2011-12-02 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Lennart, On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:08:29AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:48:34PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Ruby 1.9.3 is going to be released in september, and is a candidate for > > the default ruby version in wheezy. A snapshot is available in > > expe

Re: Does anyone recommend the Smart Book from Always Innovating

2011-11-13 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/11/13 Goswin von Brederlow : > I'm considering buying a Smart Book from Always Innovating [1]: > >    *  1GHz ARM cortex-A8 DM3730 with video and 3D acceleration >    * Numonyx 512MB RAM + 256 MB NAND >    * 8GB microSD card >    * 1024x600 8.9" capacitive touchscreen >    ... > > Doe

Re: Debian on Nokia N900?

2011-10-28 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/10/28 Joop Boonen : > Great to hear that the Debain armhf port also exists. > I wonder how you handle GPU support as most GPU drivers and modules aren't > hardfp compiled yet and most of them aren't opensource. I don't. Debian is GNU system so dont expect non-opensource software in t

Re: Debian on Nokia N900?

2011-10-28 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/10/28 Victor Nitu : > Nokia released some time ago some smartphones using a Debian-based OS, which > they called Maemo. > I was wondering if anybody on this list had any previous experience with the > N900, trying to setup a > vanilla Debian system. The arch used would be armel, and I

debian-mobile: mailing list

2011-10-23 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, As a result of a BoF during later DebConf, it was agreed to create an unified mailing list/team/group interested in driving Debian to be of better use among mobile devices. Some notes were already sent to debian-devel: As a

Re: Packages-arch-specific for armhf

2011-10-17 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/10/17 Loïc Minier : >  * linux-kernel-di-armel-2.6, linux-modules-di-armel-2.6: these are >   specific to d-i; there's a linux-kernel-di-armhf-2.6 in debian-ports, >   but not linux-modules-di-armhf-2.6 yet; the -armhf- packages >   probably don't need to be added to P-a-s as the pack

Re: small netbook

2011-10-16 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/10/16 Brian Platt : > Thanks for the info. The Genesi is good spec but I need a screen. Something > like the ubisurfer would be ideal as its only an upgrade to my nslu2 so won't > be running anthing intensive. I thought Genesi Smartbook had a screen...

Re: small netbook

2011-10-16 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/10/16 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton : > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Michael Hope wrote: > >> AC100 is well supported by a bunch of Ubuntu hackers.  If you want >> really minimal, try the Ben NanoNote. > >  yehh, i didn't mention that one, because brian's asked on the > debian-arm

Re: Problems debootstrapping armhf

2011-10-15 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/10/15 David Given : > For the record, wireless worked fine, although I did have to copy the > firmware-ralink package from my desktop machine to the AC100 (it doesn't > seem to be available in debian-ports). Right, firmware-ralink is 'non-free', debian-ports.org only has 'main' but b

Re: Problems debootstrapping armhf

2011-10-15 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/10/15 David Given : > But it does now appear to be working, although there are some oddities. > Next stop, wireless. (Sigh. I remember the good old days when you could > get preinstalled root filesystem images.) Multistrap, just provides an unconfigured rootfs, then integrator or deve

Re: Problems debootstrapping armhf

2011-10-15 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/10/15 peter green : >># debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf >> --keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg sid . >> http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian >However, the resulting file system does >> not seem to contain a dpkg executable > I don't know for sure why it did

Re: tslib not working on ebian lenny

2011-10-14 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Prasant, 2011/10/14 Prasant J : > I'm working on debian lenny 5.0.6. I'm trying to use tslib (downloaded > the latest from github and built) for my touch screen with X. Can you reproduce with Debian tslib packages? Cheers, --  Héctor Orón  -.. . -... .

Re: ARMHF

2011-10-10 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/10/7 Alessio Sangalli : > ftp.debian-ports.org /debian > http://opensource.exmeritus.com /mirror/debian-ports > So even if it cannot find the older releases, it does find what it needs > in unstable/sid, but refuses to continue anyway... > Any possible solution to this? Take into a

Re: Bug#644018: binutils-gold: fails for trivial programs (internal error in operator(), at ../../gold/common.cc:124)

2011-10-05 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/10/4 Matthias Klose : > On 10/01/2011 10:36 PM, Dmitri Gribenko wrote: >> Package: binutils-gold >> Version: 2.21.53.20110922-1 >> Severity: important >> On armhf gold fails with internal error for objects produced from trivial >> programs. >> $ gcc -c a.c >> $ gold a.o >> gold: int

Re: Bug#644018: binutils-gold: fails for trivial programs (internal error in operator(), at ../../gold/common.cc:124)

2011-10-05 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/10/4 Matthias Klose : > On 10/01/2011 10:36 PM, Dmitri Gribenko wrote: >> Package: binutils-gold >> Version: 2.21.53.20110922-1 >> Severity: important >> On armhf gold fails with internal error for objects produced from trivial >> programs. >> $ gcc -c a.c >> $ gold a.o >> gold: int

Re: ARMHF

2011-08-31 Thread Hector Oron
2011/8/31 Alessio Sangalli : > On 08/31/2011 05:41 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >> Kernel images are not done yet (on the ports to do list).  Hence install >> images are not done yet either (they need kernels after all). > > I have my own kernel, with the specific drivers for this SoC and so > on.

Re: ARMHF

2011-08-31 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/8/31 Lennart Sorensen : > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 09:25:26PM -0700, Alessio Sangalli wrote: >> Hi I have a new ARM board with a dual Cortex-A9 CPU. I was wondering if >> I can already do an ARMHF netinstall or find a base Debian ARMHF system >> to mount on a USB memory stick to test...

Re: My progress on armhf

2011-08-30 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, >> > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Lennart Sorensen >> > wrote: >> > > >> > > Any suggestions for what to fix next? 'xf86-video-msm' might allow some fun too.. Cheers, --  Héctor Orón  -.. . -... .. .- -.   -.. . ...- . .-.. --- .--. . .-. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-re

Re: My progress on armhf

2011-08-22 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, 2011/8/22 Lennart Sorensen : > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 06:53:49PM +0000, Hector Oron wrote: >> Pick the one you dislike the most =) >> http://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatTodo > Some things look like the are already fixed.  Who maintains the page? The page is community

Re: My progress on armhf

2011-08-22 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/8/22 Lennart Sorensen : > Any suggestions for what to fix next? Pick the one you dislike the most =) http://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatTodo Bootstrapping compilers are extra points BTW, I realized kernel image shipped with imx53qs does not have device mapper for LVM support. I have

Re: Do I want to debootstrap Debian armhf on my iMX53 board?

2011-08-19 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Phil, 2011/5/24 Phil Endecott : > p.s. I am going to try to record my progress here:   > http://chezphil.org/tvcomputer/ Very interesting notes. I am trying to get one of this devices up and running and reading your notes I found on SATA booting: "Load U-Boot, the kernel and the root file

Re: Building from sources for ARM

2011-08-17 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/8/17 raj ravi : > We have a very customized tool chain where the Debian precompiled binaries > and libraries > are not compatible. > Assuming this as a new architecture, in general how is Debian ported to a > new architecture and this bootstrapping of rootfs achieved? > Is crosscompil

Re: Building from sources for ARM

2011-08-13 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/8/13 raj ravi : > I am bit new to Debian. > I am going through ,how to get sources by looking at debian related howto's. > But unable to get some clues with respect to my specific question. > Any help ? `apt-get source ` will get you sources. > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:34 PM, raj ra

Re: openmoko u-boot patches

2011-08-12 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Timo, 2011/8/9 Timo Juhani Lindfors : > Hector reminded me at Debconf that it would be nice to get openmoko > support to u-boot in Debian. I think this would indeed be nice but I'm > personally not very optimistic. Debian U-Boot is under collab-maint, maybe you could push openmoko changes

Re: Debian installer for Buffalo LS Live (LS-CHL) and Mini (LS-WSGL)

2011-08-10 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/8/10 Benjamin Cama : >> >> Thanks. I will submit this patch if you think it's ok. >> >> > Sure.  Presumably Hector Oron will apply the patch for you when you >> > file a bug. Patch applied on version

Re: Debian installer for Buffalo LS Live (LS-CHL) and Mini (LS-WSGL)

2011-08-10 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, 2011/8/10 Martin Michlmayr : > * Benjamin Cama [2011-08-04 18:20]: >> Thanks. I will submit this patch if you think it's ok. > Sure.  Presumably Hector Oron will apply the patch for you when you > file a bug. Sure, but I'll need Benjamin to test it, as I do not

Re: armhf installer status?

2011-07-21 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Daniel, 2011/7/21 PALFFY Daniel : [...] > Other than that, the usual manual install > (kernel, lvm2, initramfs-tools, u-boot-tools manually, manual mkimage) > everything worked fine. Great! :-) > - Debian kernel: 3.0 won't support the mx51 in the same image as the > mx50/mx53, they have th

Re: armhf installer status?

2011-07-13 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, 2011/7/13 PALFFY Daniel : > I was interested if the efika images > work for you (at least until installing the base system)? I'd give it another go and finishing merging branches into master as well as upload missing udebs. Could you please point out which trouble are you running into? So we

Re: armhf installer status?

2011-07-13 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/7/12 PALFFY Daniel : > I'm trying to install debian on an mx53loco board. I have built a custom > kernel from the linaro 2.6.38 sources, with most important drivers built in, > it worked fine with the versatile armel installer initrd, after manually > installing the kernel, running mk

Re: libx86: FTBFS: thunk.c:44: error: impossible constraint in 'asm'

2011-07-08 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Aníbal, 2011/7/3 Aníbal Monsalve Salazar : > After you changed the severity of bug 570676 to serious, I assumed you > needed libx86 ported to armel. Oops, I do not remember why I did that, probably result of triagging bugs and not paying enough attention to this one. > Anyway, if a source

Re: libx86: FTBFS: thunk.c:44: error: impossible constraint in 'asm'

2011-07-01 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, 2011/7/2 Aníbal Monsalve Salazar : > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 05:54:08PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: >>Source: libx86 >>Version: 1.1+ds1-5 >>Severity: important Does make sense to have this package built on armel? It looks like it is x86 specific and never built on armel before. Kind regards, -

Re: fpc build problems on some debian armel buildds

2011-07-01 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, 2011/7/1 peter green : > I'd say It makes sense to upload a manual build to the archive. We want to > keep the version in the archive reasonablly current because if it gets too > old that can cause difficulties of it's own upgrading to the latest version > (building freepascal is only officia

Re: fpc build problems on some debian armel buildds

2011-06-30 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, 2011/7/1 Hector Oron : > I'll upload this > binaries at this time unless you state the contrary. Instead of this, I have given back (trigger a rebuild) the package, as it was only built once at the end of may. Second, if the error reproduces again try to add more diagnostics code

Re: fpc build problems on some debian armel buildds

2011-06-30 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/6/30 peter green : > Could some arm users try building fpc and reporting back if they can > reproduce the error and if so on what hardware? (note: you must build with > -B or you will run into an unrelated failure). If it fails for you can you > try running the failing command under s

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: fpc build problems on some debian armel buildds

2011-06-30 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, 2011/6/30 peter green : > Do you know specifically how the debian buildds handle unaligned accesses? $ cat /proc/cpu/alignment User: 7325 System: 0 Skipped:0 Half: 0 Word: 0 DWord: 0 Multi: 0 User faults:0 (ignored) If ther

Re: [armhf] xserver-xorg needs rebuild

2011-06-16 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, 2011/6/16 Steve Langasek : > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 02:00:20AM +0100, peter green wrote: >> >There's no need to email port mailing lists to request binNMUs, these are >> >scheduled centrally by the wanna-build admins. >> Is there such a central authority for ports on debian-ports.org or only

Re: [armhf] xserver-xorg needs rebuild

2011-06-16 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/6/15 Sebastian Reichel : > xserver-xorg needs a binNMU, you can find the details in this blog > post: > > http://blog.mraw.org/2011/06/14/mesa_a_disturbance_in_the_Force/ Done. Thanks. Cheers, --  Héctor Orón  -.. . -... .. .- -.   -.. . ...- . .-.. --- .--. . .-. -- Would you li

Re: Cross build an arm Debian Live system

2011-06-14 Thread Hector Oron
Hi again, 2011/6/14 Hector Oron : >> On 06/14/2011 07:48 AM, DrEagle wrote: >>> Is there any tool that can help to achieve the same work as liveboot do >>> for i686 ? I forgot to tell you about debian-installer support, most bits and pieces should be there, it might

Re: Cross build an arm Debian Live system

2011-06-14 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/6/14 Daniel Baumann : > On 06/14/2011 07:48 AM, DrEagle wrote: >> Is there any tool that can help to achieve the same work as liveboot do >> for i686 ? What do you mean by do the same as liveboot? which is your final goal install a system on device? be able to emulate it with qemu? b

Re: [armhf] please recompile libc against newer linux-libc-dev

2011-06-03 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, 2011/6/2 Sebastian Reichel : > The accept4 function is still wrong in the rebuild. Can you check if > some recent linux-libc-dev package has been used for building? When > I build the package on my Pandaboard I got a package with correct > accept4 function. Could you please re-test with egli

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