Re: flash-kernel anb beaglebone

2013-11-13 Thread Loïc Minier
abled correctly. Ideally not only in flash-kernel but also in debian-installer to generate suitable installation media. There might also be some kernel packaging changes to do. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: flash-kernel anb beaglebone

2013-11-13 Thread Loïc Minier
tp://arago-project.org/git/projects/?p=linux-am33x.git) but it should > be merge with armmp v3.13. (Great to see focus on getting things working with armmp!) -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: flash-kernel anb beaglebone

2013-11-12 Thread Loïc Minier
nel it uses etc.) -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131112133649.ga13...@bee.dooz.org

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-11-09 Thread Loïc Minier
mes the problem. But I > think the problem should be stated this way round. In simple cases it > should be easy. If it can't be deduced, this error needs to propogate > up to the user. Sure, we can put the burden on the bootloader, but we typically dont have much control over

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-07 Thread Loïc Minier
> I really don't know, it was already there when I started using Qt back in > Qt3's final days ;-) Eh ok; if you get the chance to ask, that would be helpful to know when porting apps; perhaps it's something to bring up upstream in "issues faced by distros" kind of cha

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-07 Thread Loïc Minier
#x27;s a scale in some UI, then either float or double is enough, but it's not an arch specific decision Thanks again for raising this! -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131107171818.gb12...@bee.dooz.org

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-11-07 Thread Loïc Minier
e can work on improved use cases; perhaps we want some /etc/flash-kernel/boot-device override file that could be an UUID=, a LABEL= or a /dev pathname (much like fstab) that would be created by users or by flash-kernel-installer? Which devices would this be particularly useful on right now and

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

2013-08-22 Thread Loïc Minier
e should be using them for. 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 class hardware

Re: Dropping support for the smallest armel machines

2013-06-26 Thread Loïc Minier
> principle over TFTP etc. The RedBoot build on N2100 has TFTP and even (basic) HTTP support! -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://

Re: fontconfig cross-compilation

2013-06-05 Thread Loïc Minier
build; it's probably simplest if you pass --disable-docs to configure and build the docs natively (even on x86). Cheers, -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130605155012.ga4...@bee.dooz.org

Re: Installable ARMv8 cross-toolchain

2012-11-03 Thread Loïc Minier
-- when available as it's painful to have to rebuild the .axf whenever the kernel or kernel cmdline change, and real hardware wouldn't use a boot wrapper anyway. I guess you're asking because you consider an U-Boot port? :-) Cheers, -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: The new armhf in town...

2012-07-18 Thread Loïc Minier
(even between armel and armhf IMO). -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120718222836.ga20...@fox.dooz.org

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

2012-07-16 Thread Loïc Minier
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=IMX53_SW Cheers, -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120716093828.gb11...@fox.dooz.org

Re: Questions regarding armhf port for Raspberry Pi

2012-03-07 Thread Loïc Minier
compatible with the Debian ones as long as both are built with interworking. BTW my gcc man page has an armv6t2 -march= target, so I suspect there are some ARMv6 CPUs with Thumb-2. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: root on esata with TS219P

2012-02-15 Thread Loïc Minier
h-kernel in the initrd; unpack the generated initrd with gunzip + cpio -i and rgrep the conf/ directory for ROOT=. I would also suspect important modules being missing from your initrd; perhaps you can setup a netconsole in your kernel to find out, or launch a sshd from your initrd to debug. -

Re: Bug#657682: gcc-4.6: assembler error on armhf Error: can't resolve `.rodata' {.rodata section} - `.LPIC10' {*UND* section}

2012-01-28 Thread Loïc Minier
{.rodata section} - > `.LPIC18' {*UND* section} > make[5]: *** [gmime-param.lo] Error 1 Looks like above bug (fixed upstream); also pending a backport of the fix in gcc-linaro 4.6: https://code.launchpad.net/~ramana/gcc-linaro/pr50313-backport/+merge/89058 Cheers, -- Loïc Minier -- To U

Re: libicu48 on armhf not working for me

2011-12-27 Thread Loïc Minier
lib:../../stubdata:../../tools/ctestfw:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH > ../../bin/genrb -e UTF-8 -s resources -d uconvmsg root.txt > make[3]: *** [uconvmsg/root.res] Error 1 That's a bit short and will require investigation. Of course you should file a bug for this, in particular if it's th

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

2011-12-27 Thread Loïc Minier
ault for all unixish systems, but I guess upstream would still want PYENCHANT_LIBRARY_PATH to be preferred in some way. (The above snippet would be used somewhere near line 119 "# Not found yet, search various standard system locations." in enchant/_enchant.py and would

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

2011-12-26 Thread Loïc Minier
e libraries might be loaded depending on the ldconfig output ordering... I've opened an upstream bug (see the Launchpad meta-bug) and AFAIK the python2.x patches will be uploaded to Debian with next uploads. It would be best if we would patch python programs and modules to stop using find_

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

2011-12-15 Thread Loïc Minier
sources.list and you do have to create it yourself after debootstrap, indeed. No idea whether that could be considered a bug or not. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

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

2011-12-14 Thread Loïc Minier
k an armel chroot, setup qemu and build it. If what you're trying to do is generating the uImage and uInitrd that you would get after a d-i based installation on the target system, then it's another story. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: "arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc-4.4 -march=armv4t" silently produces "armv7"

2011-11-08 Thread Loïc Minier
ng this to work with u-boot recently (need to chase this bug). As Marcin wrote, best to use Debian-based cross-toolchain on Debian systems. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: Packages-arch-specific for armhf

2011-10-17 Thread Loïc Minier
m worth > >fixing/porting; Konstantinos says this builds fine on armhf; > >TODO: file bugs to update control / P-a-s? > > getcontext() call will build but the application will fail at > runtime with a message on stderr saying that getcontext() is not > implemente

Re: Packages-arch-specific for armhf

2011-10-17 Thread Loïc Minier
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011, Loïc Minier wrote: > I still need to update the Debian wiki page with the above updated http://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatTodo Other ways to improve P-a-s for armhf: - add packages to P-a-s which are listed as architecture: any but really aren't for armhf

Packages-arch-specific for armhf

2011-10-17 Thread Loïc Minier
Cheers, PS: most P-a-s changes are filed under a "misc armhf updates" bug: Debian #645675 -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111017185048.ga14...@bee.dooz.org

Re: Bug#634890: klibc-utils: sh.shared segmentation fault (armhf)

2011-07-20 Thread Loïc Minier
Might be related to the hardware bug described in: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/739374 which has a workaround in linux, bionic and possibly glibc; I wouldn't be surprized if klibc needed similar care. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm

Re: Cross build an arm Debian Live system

2011-06-14 Thread Loïc Minier
handy for Linaro users to quickly start using ARM images without running any installer and with best performance. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110614102646.ga...@bee.dooz.org

Re: Cross build an arm Debian Live system

2011-06-14 Thread Loïc Minier
from it. > arm is a regular debian architecture, so yes; and armhf is available on > debian-ports.org. NB: armel is the Debian name -- Debian also had an "arm" architecture but that one is definitely not recommended for modern hardware (and removed from modern Debian

Re: Bug#625828: libipc-sharelite-perl: FTBFS on armel: test failures

2011-05-14 Thread Loïc Minier
r to this one in Ubuntu with older kernels; upgrading them solved the problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libipc-sharelite-perl/+bug/299847 I guess either this issue is back or the specific kernel change which fixed this issue should be bisected -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Representing California - Re: Optimizing Linux and Android applications for ARM - Free Webinar 3rd May, 2011... ; gre

2011-05-04 Thread Loïc Minier
t unclear on your motivations, but that's ok :-) -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110504083043.ga25...@bee.dooz.org

Re: Debian ARM architectures and subarchitectures

2011-04-12 Thread Loïc Minier
I'm not familiar with MX50; do you two expect some new interesting systems to use this chip? Would they be relevant for Debian? (or vice-versa :-) -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Debian ARM architectures and subarchitectures

2011-04-12 Thread Loïc Minier
f this might be broken right now, it would be better to fix it rather than go for two kernels just because of this single issue. > It suggests to use two different subarchitectures for mx51 and mx503. 503? -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.deb

Re: nslu2 unstable upgrade broke boot

2011-04-06 Thread Loïc Minier
able's busybox and put it on hold to workaround the problem until busybox is fixed. (Especially for kernel upgrades, so that you get latest modules etc. in your initrd.) -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Bug#621137: Random exec failures on ARM; breaks boot -- /init: exec: line 306: run-init: Unknown error 2372692

2011-04-06 Thread Loïc Minier
upload: - either some issues were introduced during refresh - or the patch was always broken I didn't look at why the patch breaks (yet) and I don't have a smaller test case than the above, which is quite painful. Cheers, -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-re

Re: nslu2 unstable upgrade broke boot

2011-04-06 Thread Loïc Minier
/root /sbin/init", it even booted once. I tried with busybox-static as well, but same issue. busybox was uploaded multiple times recently, so it could be fixed with latest busybox and toolchain. I'll check that out. Cheers, -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Debian ARM architectures and subarchitectures

2011-04-04 Thread Loïc Minier
) - orion5x (matches mach-orion5x, no plat-orion5x I think it's also plat-orion) - versatile (matches mach-versatile and plat-versatile) So mach-* has been very consistent in Debian ARM kernel flavors. Cheers, -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110404150906.gd6...@bee.dooz.org

Re: X video drivers appropriate for ARM?

2011-03-24 Thread Loïc Minier
It's easy enough to pull these drivers again if they every become useful; I suspect other ARM-specific drivers for powervr, mali, or dove are far more useful. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: nslu2 unstable upgrade broke boot

2011-03-23 Thread Loïc Minier
an #618616); since this bug has been around for a long time, I doubt the patch would help either. In the bug you pointed at, Dave martin has an useful recipe to start debugging issues in the initrd like this one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/klibc/+bug/683683/comments/30

Re: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status?

2011-03-14 Thread Loïc Minier
though): x86_64-linux-gnu, so I don't think the presence of underscore should be a new technical issue introduced by armhf. It's probably up to the GCC upstream folks to decide on this. Cheers -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: Bug#594179: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status?

2011-02-17 Thread Loïc Minier
I am not sure how we can ensure that we've mapped to the right tuple though. Neither am I sure that the multiarch tuples are frozen already, so it might be too early for that either. Bye -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110217112730.ga19...@bee.dooz.org

Re: ARMv4-support in armel/squeeze?

2010-12-22 Thread Loïc Minier
ogy, a Bootstrap: yes flag would be too restrictive; I'd rather have a Stage: 1 or Build-Stage: 1 flag instead. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101222153255.gb18...@bee.dooz.org

Re: ARMv4-support in armel/squeeze?

2010-12-21 Thread Loïc Minier
packages with incomplete functionality with the same name as the fully functional one: they become undistinguishable for e.g. archive management software or end-users. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: ARMv4-support in armel/squeeze?

2010-12-21 Thread Loïc Minier
levant rdeps/rbdeps should be adapted to cope with this. In this way, we reduce the interface (dependencies) between packages to the package name alone and we don't need to check whether the package has a particular feature or was built in a particular stage. -- Loïc Min

Re: fake rtc

2010-10-21 Thread Loïc Minier
pt I don't know if it was submitted to Debian; if you find it useful and you're using Debian, that would be a good occasion to do so Cheers -- Loïc Minier #!/bin/sh -e # initramfs local-premount script for fixrtc PREREQ="" # Output pre-requisites prereqs() {

Re: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status?

2010-09-13 Thread Loïc Minier
ut, would break a current way of > cross-compiling which has been around for a long time. Should perhaps use "dpkg --print-architecture" instead? or is it for cross-compiling dpkg itself on systems without dpkg? -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@list

Re: armel kernel flavours for armhf, armhf buildd operational

2010-09-02 Thread Loïc Minier
can have VFP or Neon hardware so you should support them > all. Because the port was decided to be v7, it doesn't really make sense to target versatile anymore; Realview or Vexpress would make sense though. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists

Re: Bug#594807: openjdk-6 segfaults on armel with libc6 2.11.2-2

2010-09-01 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi This looks similar to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+source/openjdk-6/+bug/605042 and Yao just tested and couldn't reproduce the issue either Cheers -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: armhf performance of vorbisgain

2010-08-22 Thread Loïc Minier
ata point, the more the merrier though ;-) Thanks again for sharing these Clint, -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100822181528.gb4...@bee.dooz.org

Re: Multiarch and ABI support

2010-07-25 Thread Loïc Minier
what should we ship as cross compiling framework for > Squeeze release? I don't want to make any recommendation, but I think dpkg-cross based approaches are the most mature; but I might be missing new approaches which I didn't read about -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Multiarch and ABI support

2010-07-25 Thread Loïc Minier
ing Debian as a build environment with a cross-compiler and sysroot to generate a target rootfs is fine, but it's not very well suited for generating a target Debian rootfs. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &

Re: cortex / arm-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi (was Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant)

2010-07-18 Thread Loïc Minier
tem, it points at /lib/ld-linux.so.3, and on i386 system /lib/ld-linux.so.2 so perhaps we can expect 64-bits arches to have a suffix while 32-bits arches so that one could leave ld-linux to 32-bits arches and use the suffix for 64-bits arches? No idea whether there's a general rule for this -- L

Re: cortex / arm-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi (was Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant)

2010-07-16 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > Ok, here are Arora Sunspider (javascript) benchmarks > for softfp: http://bit.ly/a4bS0V > for hardfp: http://bit.ly/9M0OPo -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &qu

Re: subarch support

2010-07-16 Thread Loïc Minier
ARM hardware and financial cost to host.) (Again, note that the lpia ISA was meant to diverge, something which never happened.) Subarch in Ubuntu might have made sense for a whitelist of packages though, that's true. Would have been harder to implement than libc-vfp and pango-vfp passe

Re: cortex / arm-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi (was Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant)

2010-07-16 Thread Loïc Minier
ood example of a hardfp candidate. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100716081124.ga21...@bee.dooz.org

Re: cortex / arm-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi (was Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant)

2010-07-16 Thread Loïc Minier
quire that anymore, but we'd still need a new port. We also need a different triplet for the multiarch use case; I know you're not too interested in multiarch yourself anymore, but it's safer to pick a different triplet nevertheless IMHO, using the vendor field. -- Loïc Minier

Re: cortex / arm-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi (was Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant)

2010-07-16 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010, Paul Brook wrote: > A simple benchmark confirms this hypothesis. > softfp is actually faster in many cases. Could we consider it a gcc bug that when hardfp is turned on, it could still pick a faster soft float code path and doesn't? -- Loïc Minier -- To

Re: discussion reset! thumb2/thumbee code as on armv7-a

2010-07-15 Thread Loïc Minier
create a thumb port, but using soft-float ABI? If this is still about hard-float ABI, then the port should have a name reflecting that. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.deb

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-15 Thread Loïc Minier
ev-ing the ABI too frequently (Linaro intends to work on this later this year [1]) [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/binutils-linaro/+spec/stt-gnu-ifunc and https://blueprints.launchpad.net/binutils-linaro/+spec/gold-stt-gnu-ifunc -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ..

Re: cortex / arm-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi (was Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant)

2010-07-15 Thread Loïc Minier
ex is not a minimum CPU, it's a particular implementation. Cortex-A implies ARMv7, but you can be ARMv7 without being a Cortex-A implementation (e.g. QCM snapdragon isn't, Marvell Dove isn't). -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: cortex / arm-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi (was Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant)

2010-07-15 Thread Loïc Minier
orting > the least-common-denominator VFP instruction set that runs on as many > chips as possible, which seems to mean a baseline VFP with 16 > registers. The plan is to configure with vfpv3-d16 anyway, and there is no plan to get rid of the armel port... -- Loïc Minier -- To

Re: cortex / arm-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi (was Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant)

2010-07-15 Thread Loïc Minier
or so later. (BTW in the thread Richard Earnshaw makes the point that FPA isn't leagel in EABI and that maverick is incompatible with it, so I think this is another reason not to have "vfp" in our new port's name) -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@

subarch support

2010-07-13 Thread Loïc Minier
his was largely fixed afterwards though; it was only used for the first or first two lpia releases, and was indeed very crackful.) I personally found it challenging to request inclusion of the lpia arch in Debian packages when I had to explain that the arch was only used by Ubuntu. -

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-12 Thread Loïc Minier
folks, and will report back ASAP. Cheers, -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100712104441.ga6...@bee.dooz.org

Re: Problems cross building arm debian packages

2010-07-11 Thread Loïc Minier
ure is not run with any cross-compile options. FYI, this was filed as Debian #550327 by by Colin Watson (with patch) and fixed in hello 2.5-1. Both current hello and hello-debhelper cross-build for me. Cheers -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debia

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-09 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Jul 09, 2010, Hector Oron wrote: > Somebody against 'armhf'? Have we got it? > arm-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi Sounds good > armhf-linux-gnueabi Oh no, not the CPU field; it really can only go in vendor -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-09 Thread Loïc Minier
eally the place for extensions IMO; I tried capturing this earlier piece of the discussion on the wiki page. wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatPort#Triplet -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100709143740.gc14...@bee.dooz.org

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-09 Thread Loïc Minier
here were proposals to diverge the x86 ISA. These didn't happen though, and I agree that the end result wasn't worth the pain. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-08 Thread Loïc Minier
Hey Many people are really excited by the port and would like to get the ball rolling, even before Debconf! I tried capturing the points made in this thread at: wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatPort Cheers, -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-06 Thread Loïc Minier
the disk space for both - one can split them up, but how do they get properly pulled on user systems? - and the changes to the rules to have multiple passes might be intrusive in some packages -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-06 Thread Loïc Minier
#x27;) Notes from the session: http://people.canonical.com/~lool/dmart-uds-m-notes/arm-m-dpkg-wishlist.txt -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: h

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-06 Thread Loïc Minier
it might be an issue for purists and you might have to stay on slighlty older kernels. In any case, I very much support the project, thanks for sending this out! I think it's a good topic for Debconf. Cheers, -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...

UBIFS not attaching to mtd2 on SheevaPlug

2010-07-05 Thread Loïc Minier
: [0.982473] 1f001024 mtdblock0 (driver?) [0.987486] 1f014096 mtdblock1 (driver?) [0.992481] 1f02 519168 mtdblock2 (driver?) [0.997482] No filesystem could mount root, tried: [1.002395] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknow

Re: Redboot won't load initrd.gz via ymodem

2010-01-02 Thread Loïc Minier
lled with ymodem. If you did a fis init, you will have to "fis create" the partitions again; you might also have to fconfig -i to write a new empty default config. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Redboot won't load initrd.gz via ymodem

2010-01-02 Thread Loïc Minier
type ^A and « : » then: exec !!.| sb --ymodem /some/file Another good option with the Thecus (you have a Thecus, right?) is http: load -r -v -b 0x01d0 -h 192.168.0.12 -m http /kernel load -r -v -b 0x0100 -h 192.168.0.12 -m http /initrd That's much faster too. -- Loïc Min

Re: any objections from port maintainers to make gcc-4.4 the default?

2009-10-07 Thread Loïc Minier
be in binutils 2.20 and gcc 4.5, but I don't know where the 4.4 backport stands; a workaround is to pass -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm manually. Matthias tracked down the patches with upstream and ARM so I would expect they will appear in Debian pretty soon if they didn't already. (Thanks!)

Re: Bug#526640: Please try to keep the number of flashes minimal

2009-05-03 Thread Loïc Minier
update; the flash-kernel postinst, update-initramfs calls, and kernel installation would all cause this trigger to be activated, and the flash-kernel would only have to ensure that the update-initramfs trigger if any has completed. Am I missing something? Does this make any sense? Thanks for c

Re: initramfs padding for constant redboot exec -r/-s args

2009-03-31 Thread Loïc Minier
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009, Loïc Minier wrote: > [42949379.64] RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > [42949380.21] RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 8388608 So this was actually a trivial error: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE was too small -- I had bumped it once but the initr

initramfs padding for constant redboot exec -r/-s args

2009-03-23 Thread Loïc Minier
fs is updated. :-/ Also Thecus N2100 seems to handle that just fine (it doesn't use -r or -s but just exec -c "console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/ram0 initrd=0xa080,42M mem=1...@0xa000") Bye -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...

Re: Upgrade arm installation to armel?

2009-02-24 Thread Loïc Minier
5200 root=/dev/ram0 initrd=0xa080,42M mem=1...@0xa000" (I like this method because it avoids writing anything to flash until you confirm the installer is working.) -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: using kernels bigger than 1966080 bytes on the nslug with slugimage

2009-02-11 Thread Loïc Minier
em? I don't think official Debian builds need them right now, but it could help users building custom larger kernels or in the future if the kernel size grows as Ubuntu's did. Thanks again for your help Marc, -- Loïc Minier --- Begin Message --- On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 06:21:44P

Re: Version of ARM core version and Linux kernel for iceweasel_3.0.5-1_armel.deb?

2009-02-10 Thread Loïc Minier
specific to this package and not encoded in the package itself. If it's from lenny, it's: armv4t, 2.6, soft float (no hardware FPU) see: <http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort> or "gcc -v" under a lenny armel install. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-02-08 Thread Loïc Minier
teresting, didn't think of that! Debian and Ubuntu armel are both targetting armel only, so while an interesting stunt I don't think I'll aim at providing armeb kernels; instead I guess I'll try to load an APEX image as d-i does. Thanks for the tip, -- Loïc Minier --

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-02-07 Thread Loïc Minier
ut that's ok. I wonder whether it's possible to continue the installation over serial port and not over SSH? (perhaps to the point where I could load the firmware from a remote place) -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: second-stage bootloader for Thecus N2100?

2009-01-31 Thread Loïc Minier
a came later, and we also explored that a little as I mentionned (Oliver's script); kboot and petitboot were existing implementations, petitboot for instance has a graphical menu. But in end, kboot doesn't seem too active and petitboot was a bit too PS3 specific IIRC (but probably

Re: second-stage bootloader for Thecus N2100?

2009-01-31 Thread Loïc Minier
as and input! Right now we're likely to go with the bootloader route as it supports SD boot, but a more generic solution would probably involve a Linux kernel and an initramfs if we want drivers to access hardware, filesystems, and perhaps things like LVM/crypto devices and offer s

Re: versatile architecture image suitable for qemu usage?

2009-01-09 Thread Loïc Minier
hbox, but I didn't try it out It's much easier in the x86 guest on x86 host case as you can just create the initrd by chrooting into a debootstrap-ed dir. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

WOL on Thecus N2100

2008-12-23 Thread Loïc Minier
on etherwake generated packets (ether type 0x0842 as reported by tcpdump). I tried all possible etherwake -b / -p combinations with MAC address and IP address as the password too. Any idea? Thanks, -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.deb

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-13 Thread Loïc Minier
iple arm flavours in parallel and we wouldn't have to wait for the first build for too long. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help with uic segfault on ARM (RC-bug)

2008-10-09 Thread Loïc Minier
g the -Wl,--as-needed LDFLAG. > can you upload a version of fslview that doesn't use -Wl,--as-needed ? I usually only add add -Wl,--as-needed if I can prepend -Wl,-z,defs before that. Perhaps we can find the real issue thanks to -z defs, I'd guess missing link flags. -- Loïc Min

Re: Some n2100 benchmarks of available arm kernels

2008-08-12 Thread Loïc Minier
ad I suspect due to the usage of software raid. Cheers, -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Some n2100 benchmarks of available arm kernels

2008-08-12 Thread Loïc Minier
2.6.18.dfsg.1-22 21.37 # etch.3 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-iop32x 2.6.24-6~etchnhalf.4 16.22 # etch 1/2 2.6.25-2-iop32x2.6.25-2iop1 20.84 # Martin's 2.6.25-2-iop32x2.6.25-7 15.73 # lenny 2.6.26-1-iop32x2.6.26-1

Re: Shell Script on Debian

2008-06-27 Thread Loïc Minier
(Not quite sure how this relates to arm.) On Fri, Jun 27, 2008, ApOgEE wrote: > set password [lindex \$argv 1] The command line might be visible by all users of the system, unless you use some locked down kernel, so I wouldn't pass the password on the command line. -- Loïc Minier

Re: packages with different build-depends on arm than armel

2007-12-14 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007, Riku Voipio wrote: > Looking at current build-deps of gst-plugins-base0.10, I take it > requires a sourcefull upload and a binNMU won't be enough? (Did a sourceful upload yesterday evening.) -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Problems with armel repositories and more buildds

2007-12-12 Thread Loïc Minier
to not require such a strict version anymore. The general problem you describe is solved in the "testing" distribution which makes some installability promesses. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: packages with different build-depends on arm than armel

2007-12-10 Thread Loïc Minier
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007, Loïc Minier wrote: > Bug filed. Fixed in type-handling 0.2.23. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: packages with different build-depends on arm than armel

2007-12-10 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007, Joey Hess wrote: > gst-plugins-base0.10 This seems to be a bug in type-handling as "type-handling any linux-gnu linux" used to list armel (as I can see in previous versions of the control file), but doesn't list it anymore with 0.2.22. Bug filed

Re: gnuab.org down / new archive at debian-ports.org

2007-12-03 Thread Loïc Minier
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007, Colin Tuckley wrote: > http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD_Mirrors > probably needs updating then. It's a wiki! -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]