Re: Qt with GLES on arm64 maintainer's decision - Was:: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-26 Thread Riku Voipio
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 12:37:57PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > were in the week-end). I was aware of the discussion but did not > had the time to chime in, yet I was the person who re-opened the bug > #881333 in the first place. > I also invited someone else who is working on a concrete proje

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-26 Thread Riku Voipio
On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 07:14:44PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > El jueves, 22 de noviembre de 2018 18:30:39 -03 Marcin Juszkiewicz escribió: > > Does it mean that arm64 box with PCI Express graphics card will be not > > able to use Qt based software? I can put Radeon or NVid

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-06-29 Thread Riku Voipio
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 08:11:14PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Niels Thykier: > > > armel/armhf: > > > > > > * Undesirable to keep the hardware running beyond 2020. armhf VM > >support uncertain. (DSA) > >- Source: [DSA Sprint report] > > Fedora is facing an issue runn

Re: [OE-core] SFO17 Cross-Distro meeting notes

2017-09-29 Thread Riku Voipio
On 29 September 2017 at 21:26, Tom Rini wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 02:06:21AM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > > [snip] >> On arm64, Kernel doesn't self-decompress. The bootloaders are stringly >> recommended to support decompressing kernel images. It's optional

SFO17 Cross-Distro meeting notes

2017-09-28 Thread Riku Voipio
= LSE atomics problem = Large System Extensions, part of ARMv8.1, provides new atomics instructions. These instructions are essential for high performance locking when you have lots of cores. Recommendation: distributions should provide an alternative optimized glibc with LSE atomics based locks

ARM Cross-distro BoF at Linaro Connect next week

2017-09-22 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi, We'll have the traditional cross-distribution BoF at Linaro connect Wednesday 27.9, at 3PM US pacific time - 22.00 UTC. We don't have a set agenda, but if anything is bugging you, replying to this mail is great way to make it into our topics :) Riku

Re: CP15 Barrier emulation performance?

2017-07-28 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 09:45:49AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2017-07-11 at 08:56 +0100, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote: > > > Does this emulation take a considerable performance hit, as opposed > > > to > > > running on armhf hardware/kernel, where the instruction doesn't > > > appear > > >

Re: CP15 Barrier emulation performance?

2017-07-27 Thread Riku Voipio
On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 12:51:08PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > Some of the reproducible builds armhf nodes are actually arm64 capable > machines, running an arm64 kernel build. When haskell related packages > get built, I get a tremendous number of messages on to the console: > > "ghc" (1

Re: arm64: Image vs. Image.gz

2017-02-03 Thread Riku Voipio
On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 01:35:40PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > So, when building an arm64 linux package using Debian's packaging, it > builds a package where /boot/vmlinuz-VERSION is uncompressed, and > bootloaders such as u-boot can boot it with booti. > But when building a mainline kernel

Re: U-boot menu support in Debian

2017-01-28 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 03:59:33PM +, Riku Voipio wrote: > I guess I'll push it to it's own package, since not all u-boot-tools > may want a menu. Done now: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/u-boot-menu

Re: U-boot menu support in Debian

2017-01-17 Thread Riku Voipio
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 12:03:05PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2017-01-05, Riku Voipio wrote: > > I only recently noticed that Debian doesn't seem use U-boot > > support for extlinux style boot menus. This makes jumping > > between kernel versions frustrating.

Re: graphicsmagick/1.3.25-7 build reschedule on armhf

2017-01-17 Thread Riku Voipio
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 09:06:45PM +0100, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote: > Hi, > Back in time the build of GraphicsMagick failed. Later I could build > it on an armhf porter box and just did the same on a Qemu emulated > armhf box with a pbuilder setup. > Please reschedule its build on the offic

U-boot menu support in Debian

2017-01-05 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi, I only recently noticed that Debian doesn't seem use U-boot support for extlinux style boot menus. This makes jumping between kernel versions frustrating. I've taken the old syslinux support for menu generation and re-purposed it for u-boot: https://github.com/suihkulokki/u-boot-upda

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-09-21 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 09:16:00PM +, Niels Thykier wrote: > Over all, most people (who answered it) was positive towards the switch. > Based on this, I suspect that if we make PIE default in Stretch, then > we will do it for all architectures. That said, you will be notified if > that defaul

Re: Summary of the ARM ports BoF at DC16

2016-08-11 Thread Riku Voipio
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 02:36:05AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > armhf > = > Current port, first released with Wheezy. Due to cross-distro effort, > this setup (ARMv7 EABI using VFPv3D-16) is the default supported > 32-bit ARM architecture in all distros now. We've got a couple of > kernel var

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

2016-07-07 Thread Riku Voipio
On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 12:24:03PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > On Thu, 07 Jul 2016, Riku Voipio wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 02:01:03PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some > > > oth

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

2016-07-07 Thread Riku Voipio
On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 02:01:03PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some > other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release, > similarly to what we did in the etch days. That's *basically* just > like a normal jessie re

Re: creating official Debian images for ARM-based NAS devices

2016-04-19 Thread Riku Voipio
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 04:55:53PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > get started. There is no need for the user to run through all the > installer questions, on many devices they can simply log in to the > standard admin page, upload the OpenWRT image through a web form and it > starts running with de

Re: [Pkg-julia-devel] Bug#820220: Bug#820220: Bug#820220: Bug#820220: julia: FTBFS on armel/armhf

2016-04-09 Thread Riku Voipio
On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 12:02:44PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote: > On 9 April 2016 at 00:53, peter green wrote: > > It would be useful if someone can reproduce the issue and get a dissasembly > > of the failure location. > > I hope this is useful. I'll leave my screen session on abel.d.o. open > in

Re: Bug#819890: haskell-http2: FTBFS on armel buildds (was: Re: Please give back haskell-http2 on armel)

2016-04-03 Thread Riku Voipio
On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 03:11:39PM +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Wookey wrote: > > +++ Steven Chamberlain [2016-04-01 10:31 +0100]: > > > Currently haskell-http2 FTBFS on only armel: > > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=haskell-http2&suite=unstable > > > delaying the package's

Re: Re: Re: [Reproducible-builds] Raspi 3 suitable for arm64

2016-03-10 Thread Riku Voipio
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:13:22AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 1:18 AM, Ronald Maas wrote: > > I am not familiar with the whole Debian build infrastructure. So if I missed > > the point where this becomes a real issue, hope you can elaborate. > For example: > You can't fla

Cross-distribution ARM meetings at Linaro connect this weel

2016-03-07 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi, We have a few sessions at this Linaro connect that could be in interest of Linux distributions working on Arm/Linux: Tuesday 14.00 Bangkok time: (07.00 UTC): https://bkk16.pathable.com/meetings/372827 BKK16-212: What's broken on ARM64? Thursday 10.10 Bangkok time: (03.00 UTC): https://bkk16.p

Re: [PATCH v3] deb-pkg: Add automatic support for armhf architecture

2015-10-22 Thread Riku Voipio
will probably be disabled when supporting a > soft-float userland. So set the architecture to armhf by default when > CONFIG_AEABI and CONFIG_VFP are both enabled. > > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings > Acked-by: Ian Campbell > Acked-by: Fathi Boudra Reviewed-by: Riku Voipio

Cross-distribution ARM Linux platform support meeting at Connect San Fransisco

2015-08-24 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi everyone, Since cross-distribution meetings at Linaro Connect have been popular, we are continuing the tradition and having a session[1] in Linaro Connect next week. https://sfo15.pathable.com/meetings/302652 The event is on Monday September 21, 16.10 PST (aka 23:10:00 UTC). Details of google

Re: kvm-arm: qemu always starts with drive in read-only mode

2015-08-20 Thread Riku Voipio
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 07:44:34PM +0200, Guido Haase wrote: > After I started the system by command > > qemu-system-arm -enable-kvm -smp 1 -m 256 -M vexpress-a15 -cpu host > -kernel /home/guido/kvm-arm/jessie/vexpress-zImage -dtb > /home/guido/kvm-arm/jessie/vexpress-v2p-ca15-tc1.dtb -appen

Re: [PATCH 1/4] deb-pkg: Add automatic support for armhf architecture

2015-04-09 Thread Riku Voipio
On 2 April 2015 at 17:18, Michal Marek wrote: > On 2015-04-02 15:14, Riku Voipio wrote: >> On 2 April 2015 at 15:01, Arnaud Patard wrote: >>> riku.voi...@linaro.org writes: >>>> --- a/scripts/package/builddeb >>>> +++ b/scripts/package/build

Re: [PATCH 1/4] deb-pkg: Add automatic support for armhf architecture

2015-04-02 Thread Riku Voipio
On 2 April 2015 at 15:01, Arnaud Patard wrote: > riku.voi...@linaro.org writes: >> --- a/scripts/package/builddeb >> +++ b/scripts/package/builddeb >> @@ -45,7 +45,16 @@ create_package() { >> arm64) >> debarch=arm64 ;; >> arm*) >> - debarch=arm$(grep -q CONFIG

[PATCH 1/4] deb-pkg: Add automatic support for armhf architecture

2015-04-02 Thread riku . voipio
Cc: debian-arm@lists.debian.org Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio --- scripts/package/builddeb | 11 ++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb index 88dbf23..146b74f 100755 --- a/scripts

Re: chromium on arm (was: About Jessie and missing packages)

2015-03-31 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tuesday, March 31, 2015 1:33:29 PM EEST, peter green wrote: See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696909 for more information on the many issues we had trying to keep chromium working on armhf. If there is to be a supported chromium package in raspbian going forward it need

Re: armhf and year 2038 limitation

2015-03-25 Thread Riku Voipio
On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 11:24:46 AM EET, Jean-Christian de Rivaz wrote: HI, I try to build a jessie based armhf embedded system that will pass the year 2038 limitation. So far, I have learn that I have to use btrfs instead of ext4, and that the struct timespec.tv_sec must be 64-bit instea

Cross Distribution sync on ARM issues session at Linaro connect

2015-02-03 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi everyone, Since cross-distribution meetings at Linaro Connect have been popular, we are continuing the tradition and having a session[1] in Linaro Connect next week. https://hkg15.pathable.com/meetings/250818 The event is on Wednesday 11 February, 14.00 hong kong time (06.00 UTC). We'll try t

Re: armv7 builds leaking into armel

2014-11-24 Thread Riku Voipio
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 04:18:20AM +, peter green wrote: > In Raspbian we run all packages we build through a check that > unpacks them and runs readelf[5]. We could do this as post-build-command in armel buildds. But we would still need some volunteer to maintain the whitelist of false posit

Re: libv8 packaging and arm64

2014-09-15 Thread Riku Voipio
> > >Please read this answer i made a couple of months ago: > > >https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-javascript-devel/2014-June/008013.html > > ACK. Thanks for the quick response - I appreciate you're in a > > difficult situation. :-/. Do you have any feel for progress towards > > nodejs

Re: Illegal Instruction on Debian 7 on QNAP TS-209 after upgrade

2014-08-07 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi, On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 11:43:33AM +0200, Ole Langbehn wrote: > On 06.08.2014 11:35, Riku Voipio wrote: > > Best change to recover is probably to take backups from disk, reinstall > > (and don't upgrade), and then create chroot and try to upgrade there - > > if it

Re: Illegal Instruction on Debian 7 on QNAP TS-209 after upgrade

2014-08-06 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 02:44:05PM +0200, Ole Langbehn wrote: > Recently (2014/7/25) I upgraded my debian 7 on my qnap TS209 box (see > the attached apt output) and after installing some packages (libc, apt, > ...), the installation fails with an Illegal Instruction signal. Shortly > after I wasn't

Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] deb-pkg: Add automatic support for armhf architecture

2014-07-14 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 04:06:39PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 01:21:34AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > The Debian armhf architecture uses the ARM EABI hard-float variant, > > whereas armel uses the soft-float variant. Although the kernel > >

Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] deb-pkg: Add automatic support for armhf architecture

2014-06-10 Thread Riku Voipio
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 01:21:34AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > 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 probab

Re: ConcurrencyKit (libck0 package) on ARM?

2014-04-14 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi, On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 03:56:41PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > Upstream says that armel can't be supported: > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/concurrencykit/I34MWr_mK8Q/sKeh1Ro3eAYJ > Should I go back to the Ganglia community and suggest moving away from > ConcurrencyKit? In case Concurre

Re: Bug#738981: Fwd: Bug#738981: Switch to use generic_fpu for ARM

2014-03-05 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 02:59:44AM +, peter green wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 09:06:44AM -0500, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > > >That sounds like if the mpg123 package should use: > >on armel: --with-cpu=arm_nofpu > >on armhf: --with-cpu=arm_fpu > > > > > >Does this make sense to everybody? >

Re: Bug#738981: Fwd: Bug#738981: Switch to use generic_fpu for ARM

2014-03-05 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 11:49:45AM +0100, Thomas Orgis wrote: > In any case ... Riku: Care to run timings of MAD on your > configurations? I'm interested in how fast it is producing that 24 bit > output on limited CPUs. time madplay -d -o null: convergence_-_points_of_view/*.mp3 &> /dev/null Co

Re: Bug#738981: Fwd: Bug#738981: Switch to use generic_fpu for ARM

2014-03-03 Thread Riku Voipio
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 12:02:40PM +0100, Thomas Orgis wrote: > Am Sat, 01 Mar 2014 01:00:02 +0900 > schrieb Taihei Momma : > > > OK, after some investigation with armhf cross environment and qemu, finally > > the current mpg123 svn (r3517) should work > > After Tahei didn't stop at this (big

Bug#740334: qtwebkit creates ARMv5 assembler

2014-02-28 Thread Riku Voipio
Package: qtwebkit-opensource-src Version: 5.2.1+dfsg-3 X-Debbugs-CC: debian-arm@lists.debian.org Severity: normal Checking the end of the builddlog[1]: /tmp/ccaKPWJK.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/ccaKPWJK.s:23: Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode `blx r0' make[4]: *** [.obj/jit/JITS

Re: Fwd: Bug#738981: Switch to use generic_fpu for ARM

2014-02-17 Thread Riku Voipio
> -- Forwarded message -- > From: Thomas Orgis > Date: Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 5:46 AM > Subject: Bug#738981: Switch to use generic_fpu for ARM > To: 738...@bugs.debian.org > > There is no runtime detection in mpg123 for this and at least for the > decision of fixed or floating poi

Re: Fwd: Bug#738981: Switch to use generic_fpu for ARM

2014-02-17 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi, On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 07:41:02PM -0500, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 7:28 PM, peter green wrote: > > We can't use the neon option because no arm port of debian gaurantees that > > neon will be available. So I belive until the no-fpu options are made > > compatible with

Re: gcc armel status and armel architecture defaults

2014-01-13 Thread Riku Voipio
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 08:32:49AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 05:51 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > > the gcc-4.9 in experimental fails to build while the one for armhf succeeds. > For reference the logs are at: > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=gcc-4.9&arch

Re: [Fwd: Buggy perl on buildd cause build failures - please update perl on buildds to perl_5.18.1-5]

2014-01-01 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi, Sorry I didn't notice armel mentioned on the original mail, so I assumed it was just sent to ports@ . Will look at the buildd's asap. Riku On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 11:39:23AM +0100, Mattias Ellert wrote: > Hi! > > Is there anyone that receives the mails sent to ar...@buildd.debian.org? > >

Re: Proposal to replace/extend current armhf builders

2013-11-15 Thread Riku Voipio
> > I think we need to bash out some criteria for deciding during the > > mini-debconf. i.e deciding how we decide (or just make a decision if > > possible). > Better to decide now rather than wait for the perfect solution next > year (which might have other problems other than price). Better is

Cross Distribution sync on ARM issues session at Linaro connect

2013-10-28 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi everyone, After a break, we are again having a cross distribution collaboration session[1]. The event is on wednesday 12.10pm PST (aka 19.10 UTC). The session will be broadcast on google hangouts[2] for remote participation. If you have any great ideas you think other ARM distributions would b

Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-07 Thread Riku Voipio
> > Lennart Sorensen (!DD), Nobuhiro Iwamatsu (DD), Steve McIntyre (DD) > I am surprised not to see Riku Voipio and Hector Oron on this list as > I know they help manage the buildds and Riku signs uploads. I don't > know if they are trying to escape, or just being too slack to

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-10-07 Thread Riku Voipio
file bugs on failed builds - provide packagers bugfixes in case they are unable to fix armel bugs in their package themself For armel, armhf and possibly in future for arm64: - test packages on the architectures - fix arch-related bugs I am a DD, Riku Voipio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Debian on thecus N2100

2013-04-30 Thread Riku Voipio
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 08:42:09PM +0100, Brian Platt wrote: > FINALLY got serial working on the N2100 and did debian install via it. Did > the partitioning bit as always and then the formatting started up to 33% then > this was outputed a few seconds later snip: > [ 953.25] PC is at raid1

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-30 Thread Riku Voipio
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:30:27AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 09:32:59AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > The impression I got during the brief from the arm porters is that it is > > so far unclear how well Debian will run on this nice shiney thing. > > So for now it's

Re: the SoC GPU driver interview

2013-04-26 Thread Riku Voipio
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 09:26:28AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > > This is a great interview with folks doing reverse engineering of ARM > > GPU drivers and devices. > > > > http://blog.emmanueldeloget.com/index.php?post/2013/03/08

Re: arm build hardware

2013-03-26 Thread Riku Voipio
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:16:42PM +, peter green wrote: > After the bad stuff i'm reading about the arndaleboard (apparently > problems even at 1.4 GHz despite the advertised speed being 1.8 GHz) pandaboards were not particularry stable when people started using them. Likewise, using the ear

Re: Add new armhf flavor armada370xp

2013-03-06 Thread Riku Voipio
On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 06:09:11AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:22:23PM +, peter green wrote: > >>Each flavor of armel and armhf should have the same function, too. > >IMO if you think you can support all armada series devices that are > >likely to run debian armhf

Re: potential new build hardware, "arndaleboard" samsung exynos 5,?2GB?ram

2012-12-04 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 11:28:35AM +0100, Arnaud Patard wrote: > > USB ethernet is ASIX based and seems to work fine (once you set up mac > > address). eSATA didn't work for me reliably, but sata code is still said to > > be > > work in progress and my HD isn't in the list of (currently) supported

Re: potential new build hardware, "arndaleboard" samsung exynos 5,?2GB?ram

2012-12-04 Thread Riku Voipio
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 06:24:32PM +, Phil Endecott wrote: > Phil Endecott chezphil.org> writes: > > peter green p10link.net> writes: > > > It looks like a new samsung based devboard has come out (though it's not > > > scheduled to actually ship until november). > > > > Ignore it until it

Re: Seagate GoFlex Satellite

2012-08-27 Thread Riku Voipio
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 09:29:11PM -0700, Braddock Gaskill wrote: > Unfortunately no such luck. I disassembled my GoFlex Satellite this > morning and the CON1 connector is for the battery. That's unlucky then.. > If you see anything I might try please let me know. You could try connecting a pow

Re: Seagate GoFlex Satellite

2012-08-17 Thread Riku Voipio
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 09:41:15PM -0700, Braddock Gaskill wrote: > > Is there much hope of getting Debian running on a Seagate GoFlex > Satellite? This is a very sexy little Linux-based device which encloses a > 500GB harddrive with wifi and runs off a battery. According to the following articl

yade will no longerbe built on armel/armhf

2012-06-06 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi, yade takes obscene amounts of RAM during builds, causing excessive build times due to swapping on armel/armhf buildds. Since it does not seem to be a package likely to be run ARM machines in near future, we have disabled building it for now. Riku -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ

Re: armel qualification for Wheezy

2012-05-25 Thread Riku Voipio
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 09:02:33PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > I may be being naive, but could an X86 PC be used with an ARM chroot and > qemu-arm-static to emulate ARM instructions? Or is qemu not stable > enough, or the emulated environment different enough that package > building would fail (e.g. throu

Re: armel qualification for Wheezy

2012-05-21 Thread Riku Voipio
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:00:53AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > ancina is a developer's board, so what components should be in the > shipping if we go that route? The board, memory at least, hard drive would be great as it would save the pain of reinstall. The rest (PSU, cables) I think Steve and Mar

Re: armel qualification for Wheezy

2012-05-19 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi, On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 10:57:03AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > 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. Would you mind packaging ancina and posting it to another hosting location? IIRC Ma

Re: Bug#615513: release.debian.org: armhf inclusion into the archive

2012-01-04 Thread Riku Voipio
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 08:41:08AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > FYI, we are considering making 1.9.X the default version of Ruby in > wheezy. It scares me a bit that you want to include armhf in testing > when ruby1.9.1 doesn't build on armhf because the test suite segfaults > (#652674). We are

Re: N2100 Bricked - Redboot rescue needed

2011-11-06 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi, > > IIRC I saw that when I had a bad ram DIMM installed. So it could be > > that some > > of your hardware components has got loose/dusty. > I will give a try, but I think I may have bricked the RedBoot. > Is there a serial RedBoot rescue mode possible, like in UBoot [2] ? > Is there any t

Re: N2100 Bricked - Redboot rescue needed

2011-11-05 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi, On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 05:53:03PM +0100, DrEagle wrote: > I have two Thecus N2100 Bricked and make a call for some help ! > > I have soldered a RS232 on the SATA Board, as explained here and [1] on > my wiki [2]. > > With the serial console I have one of the Thecus that only show a + at Boo

Re: fpc build problems on some debian armel buildds

2011-06-30 Thread Riku Voipio
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 03:33:36PM +0100, peter green wrote: > The current FPC package builds fine in qemu for me. I will attempt to > try on some real hardware too when I get a chance. Qemu allows unaligned memory accesses, which do not always work on real hardware, especially on armv5 and othe

Re: Getting rid of alignment faults in userspace

2011-06-20 Thread Riku Voipio
On 18 June 2011 22:17, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > Turns out that a prominent ARM developer still has binaries from the > ARMv3 era around, and the default of not fixing up misaligned user space > accesses is for remaining compatible with them. > So if you do have a version of glibc that is not from 1

Re: fpc: FTBFS on armel: An unhandled exception occurred at $00033B60

2011-03-27 Thread Riku Voipio
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 12:12:16AM +, peter green wrote: > I have tried and failed to reproduce this issue in qemu with an up to > date sid. Can anyone else reproduce it? Since both failures have been > from the same buildd I wonder if it's some issue with the particular > buildd. Tried i

Re: gcc-4.6 build failure on armel

2011-03-23 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:50:17AM +, Hector Oron wrote: > Hi, > > 2011/3/21 Matthias Klose : > > gcc-4.6 fails to build on the buildds with an ICE.  Unable to reproduce on a > > local armv5t machine.  Please could an ARM porter reproduce this ICE and > > attach > > the requrest information t

Re: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status?

2011-02-18 Thread Riku Voipio
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 04:27:52AM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > precisely. this is another, (clearer or at least different) way of > stating what i've been advocating. by having such a delta-maintaining > tool, complex sets of deltas can be maintained indefinitely, or in > fact c

Re: ARMv4-support in armel/squeeze?

2010-12-26 Thread riku voipio
On 12/20/2010 09:06 PM, Christoph Biedl wrote: arm will stay around for another 18 months or so as 'oldstable', and then v4 machines will be pretty-much unsupported in Debian unless someone steps up to support them. Do I hear a call for volunteers? Technically old "arm" port can be kept aliv

Re: armhf performance of vorbisgain

2010-08-18 Thread Riku Voipio
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 02:48:51AM +, Clint Adams wrote: > In summary, it takes less than half the time to do the > run with armhf than it does with armel. Can you also test vorbisgain performance with regular armel port and with compiler flags of: -march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a8 -mfpu=vfpv3-

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

2010-07-16 Thread Riku Voipio
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 09:55:49AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Aurelien Jarno [2010-07-16 09:38]: > > BTW, has anybody thought about increasing the minimum requirement for > > the armel port, for example to armv5? Available machines has evolved, > > maybe the port should do the same. > In

Re: subarch support

2010-07-16 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 03:24:35PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010, Riku Voipio wrote: > > If dpkg had subarchitecture support, lpia wouldn't have been as big > > a issue. Ubuntu decided to shortcut and not add support for compatible > > subarchs in dpk

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-13 Thread Riku Voipio
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 01:06:58PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Personally, before any further discussion I'd like to see some numbers > with core libraries (libc, libgcc, libgmp, libatlas? etc) built with > softfp, which eventually might be able to switch to use the hwcaps > infrastructure in a s

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-08 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 10:55:25PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Tue, Jul 06, 2010, Joey Hess wrote: > > Could the targeted CPU be used in the name? Ie, armelv7. Or even just armv7. It is just a name, so it should be short and not try to encode too much information in it. > I would be a bit sc

Re: possibly 'stuck' build?

2010-06-07 Thread Riku Voipio
> I see that protobuf is being build for more than 8 days on ancina. However, > last time when it was built successfully it took 1h:10m (also on ancina), and > a > previous failed build took also 1h:10m. Was built yesterday. The official contact for buildd issues is ar...@buildd.debian.org Riku

Re: Bug#584610: [mips] gcc-4.4 build failure after upgrade to eGLIBC-2.11

2010-06-07 Thread Riku Voipio
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 09:15:05AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 06.06.2010 00:51, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> These functions were present before in the library, but not exported >> in the headers. This has been changed as it is required by ISO C99. >> While these functions are strictly not need

Re: the mangling of ‘va_list’ has ch anged in GCC 4.4

2010-01-28 Thread Riku Voipio
Modestas Vainius wrote: I have recently came across .symver directive [1][2] that is more straightforward way to achieve the same thing. In that case, only source file (.cpp) needs to be changed. Brilliant! This shall be the plan then: 1) identify affected libraries (Jakubs list as base?) 2

fpc bootstrapping

2010-01-28 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi, was written ages ago: >> free pascal needs bootstrapping. > I started trying with roughly the following recipie (note: these should be > equivilent to what I did but I also went down a lot of dead ends, did things > in a less sensible order etc) > So IMO the thing to do is to wait for th

Re: gcl and reverse dependencies on arm

2010-01-27 Thread Riku Voipio
t : 0x926 > CPU revision : 0 > > Hardware : Marvell DB-78x00-BP Development Board > Revision : > Serial: > = > > Oddly, it works for many address

Re: the mangling of ‘va_lis t’ has changed in GCC 4.4

2010-01-27 Thread Riku Voipio
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:19:35PM +0200, Modestas Vainius wrote: > Hello, > > On trečiadienis 27 Sausis 2010 22:47:55 Riku Voipio wrote: > > There is a major problem with gcc 4.4 and armel - the ABI of va_list > > changed (for c++ libraries). We need to decide one of the

Re: the mangling of ‘va_list’ has cha nged in GCC 4.4

2010-01-27 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi debian-release, There is a major problem with gcc 4.4 and armel - the ABI of va_list changed (for c++ libraries). We need to decide one of the following: 1) library package name rename (like c2a rename previously) + "the right thing to do" + partial upgrades work as expected - Some hassle

Re: debian install for KURO-SHEEVA

2009-12-10 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi Masakazu Asuma, To the original poster - can you point us to the Linux kernel sources and/or results of "dmesg" command on the KURO-SHEEVA? On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:04:30AM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > The SheevaPlug platform code does not initialize PCI since the > SheevaPlug doesn't ha

Re: Bug#547503: git-core: "git clone" fails on armel

2009-11-09 Thread Riku Voipio
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 07:14:25PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi arm porters, > > Can you reproduce this problem? If so, any ideas on how to fix it? mv78x00: git clone git://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-jhbuild/mainline.git sugar-jhbuild Initialized empty Git repository in /schroot/sugar-jhbuil

Re: ext2 file system: moving between armel and amd64 etc.

2009-10-26 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi Osamu, On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 09:25:36PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I realized that mkfs.ext2 creates different superblock depending on which > system it is run under. The difference can be observed by tune2fs -l: > > ext2 created by Debian lenny on amd64: > Filesystem flags: signed_dire

Re: arm port plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-19 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:27:32AM -1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Marc Brockschmidt [2009-08-16 14:40]: > > Do you have any big changes planned? How much time would they take, and > > what consequences are there for the rest of the project? > > How many "big" transitions will the upcoming cha

Re: GHC 6.10 for Debian armel?

2009-05-10 Thread Riku Voipio
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 11:22:39PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 01:00:35PM +0200, Rickard Nilsson wrote: > > I notice there is a GHC 6.8 package for armel, while 6.10 exists for > > most other architectures. Is there anything I can do to help getting &g

Re: GHC 6.10 for Debian armel?

2009-05-03 Thread Riku Voipio
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 01:00:35PM +0200, Rickard Nilsson wrote: > I notice there is a GHC 6.8 package for armel, while 6.10 exists for > most other architectures. Is there anything I can do to help getting > 6.10 to armel? ghc 6.10 + newer toolchain bumped the size of ghc binary to over 32MB,

Re: problem building gerris on armel: Illegal instruction

2009-04-14 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:13:35PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 17:06 +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:24:57AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > > > > gerris is FTBFS failing to build from source on armel, > > &

Re: problem building gerris on armel: Illegal instruction

2009-04-13 Thread Riku Voipio
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:24:57AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > Dear armel experts, > cc: Debian Science, Gerris upstream > > gerris is FTBFS failing to build from source on armel, see > https://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=gerris > https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=gerris&ver=0.9.2% > 2

Re: GCC bug when -ffast-math is set on armel

2009-03-19 Thread Riku Voipio
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:40:47AM +, Martin Guy wrote: > I thought I should mention this here too in case anyone else gets > bitten by this armel-specific bug. >A GCC bug has just turned up that affects the arm-*-gnueabi > architecture in gcc-4.[123]. While debugging libvorbisenc (which

Re: ARM hardware available for developers

2009-03-17 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:05:50PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I have a number of ARM devices/boards that I no longer need and I'm > looking for developers or testers who can do something useful with > them. Those devices have been given to me to improve Debian support, > and so they should b

Re: Architecture usertags

2009-03-05 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 08:52:03PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > so that maintainers could apply them to architecture-specific bugs when > necessary. The format, suggested by Steve Langasek, was to use the > porters mailinglist as the user, and the architecture name as the > usertag (e.g., 'debia

Re: Some advice on iMX31

2009-02-25 Thread Riku Voipio
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:57:34AM +0100, Ruediger Leibrandt wrote: > I got some advertisement-material from one of the chinese companies producing > the new generation of ARM based Netbooks. > I uploaded the advertisement - a pdf - to my homepage, so, when you have a > spare moment or two, have

Re: Debian 5.0 armel installation question

2009-02-18 Thread Riku Voipio
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 01:09:32PM +0100, Yegor Yefremov wrote: > For Etch I used initrd.gz from netwinder, but as far as I understand it > supports only ARM and not EABI ARM. I need a "cdrom" installer and not > the "netboot" one. What were the best way to install Lenny on my device? What you

Re: Instructions for building iceweasel for arm?

2009-01-31 Thread Riku Voipio
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 11:34:32PM +0800, John wrote: >You may try to compile it in scratchbox. >But Iceweasel (Debian Firefox) still segfaults under Debian Sid Arm EABI It works for me and others... If it does segfault, we'd like to know about it. >port,See [1]http://flickr.com/photo

Re: versatile architecture image suitable for qemu usage?

2009-01-08 Thread Riku Voipio
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 11:35:22PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > I tried to test qemubuilder armel support and realized that I don't > have the latest kernel. > initrd isn't distributed inside a package, and I don't think there's a > kernel which doesn't work without a initrd. > Is there a kern

Re: [PATCH] Move i2c work to a workqueque

2008-11-20 Thread Riku Voipio
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:44:05AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-20 08:02]: > > Sorry, I take this back. While it fixes the oops when beeping, I now > > get this: > Riku pointed out on IRC that I didn't apply his patch correctly. I > fixed this

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