Re: building qt4 for arm

2013-02-12 Thread martinwguy
On 12 February 2013 17:36, Sander wrote: > Ermis Papastefanakis wrote (ao): >> I agree with Martin, it's better to compile Debian packages natively. I >> would suggest to get something more powerful though. A dual core board like >> a Pandaboard ES (1.2GHz) or a Snowball (1GHz) can come rather che

Re: building qt4 for arm

2013-02-12 Thread martinwguy
On 12 February 2013 16:28, Rieker Flaik wrote: > I'm running debian arm and need to rebuild libqt4 with an additional > patch. What is the best and fastest way to rebuild that package? Build it on an ARM box, as Debian packages (in general) need to build on native hardware. > > I also want to me

Re: shared memory problem on armel

2013-02-07 Thread martinwguy
On 7 February 2013 19:58, Mike Thompson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 06:42:20PM +0100, martinwguy wrote: >> > For example, the armv6 armhf port for the Raspberry Pi in armhf/V6. >> >> The wilful incompa

Re: shared memory problem on armel

2013-02-07 Thread martinwguy
>> Mapping the same shared memory twice in one process is stupid, anyway. >> Just disable the test on armel and armhf. > > Correction: starting from ARMv7, this is supported. So the test can be > enabled for armhf (and arm64). No, you have to test for the architecture being V7+, not for armhf. Th

Re: How small can it get?

2012-11-07 Thread martinwguy
On 7 November 2012 04:13, Grant wrote: > How small can the Debian ARM rootfs get? Are the packages listed with > "armel" in the Debian online package database compatible with ARM? A armel-squeeze base system made with debootstrap is 124200KB unpacked. You can reduce this to about 70M by removing

Re: Can't get a Linux 3.6-rc zImage smaller than 2MB

2012-09-13 Thread martinwguy
On 12 September 2012 19:46, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> I went down from whopping 5MB to 2.1MB > > i was expecting a large number but not that large. > >> I also tried to use a .config file from >> linux-image-3.2.0-3-iop32x_3.2.23-1_armel.deb >> and it's still is a big image. > > i'

Re: ARM dev boards for Debian and QEMU [was: Just suscribed.]

2012-08-10 Thread martinwguy
http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/04/18/30-euros-olimex-imx233-olinuxino-linux-development-board/ 30E, ARM9 but only 64MB RAM - good for non-graphical operations but you can't recompile GCC on it... M On 10 August 2012 11:54, Jeremiah C. Foster wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 07:26:45AM +02