Re: armel/marvell kernel size

2018-04-15 Thread Roger Shimizu
Dear Ian, Ben, On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 9:50 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2018-04-15 at 08:16 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >> On Sun, 2018-04-15 at 00:08 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> > > For the lzo_decompress ones I think you need to add it to >> > > installer/modules/lzo-modules and perhap

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

2018-04-12 Thread Roger Shimizu
On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 5:47 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2018-04-07 at 23:38 +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 11:16 PM, Roger Shimizu >> wrote: >> > Dear kernel folks, >> > >> > After all kinda tests recently, together with the patch from Leigh >> > Brown (CC-ed) that

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

2018-04-07 Thread Roger Shimizu
On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 11:16 PM, Roger Shimizu wrote: > Dear kernel folks, > > After all kinda tests recently, together with the patch from Leigh > Brown (CC-ed) that disabled VT, finally the armel/marvell can be > reduced under 2MB again, without introducing a new flavour. Sorry, I forgot to men

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

2018-04-07 Thread Roger Shimizu
Dear Rogério, I'll reply to you later, in a separate email. Dear kernel folks, After all kinda tests recently, together with the patch from Leigh Brown (CC-ed) that disabled VT, finally the armel/marvell can be reduced under 2MB again, without introducing a new flavour. So I already pushed the

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

2018-04-02 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear Roger, Ben and others. On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 10:25 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 3:30 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> On Mon, 2018-01-22 at 22:38 +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: >> There's an upstream change in cfg80211 that enables direct-loading of >> wireless rules, which r

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

2018-04-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 28, 2018, at 2:22 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> What filesystems do you use? Do you use any (para)virtualization? What >> about addon hardware that you have? Any USB dongles? Anything that you >> can think of? Sound? >> >> Do you use NFS? (I do) What kind of compressed ramdisk do you use? Th

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

2018-04-01 Thread Roger Shimizu
Dear Ben, and other arm/kernel folks, On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 3:30 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2018-01-22 at 22:38 +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: > > There's an upstream change in cfg80211 that enables direct-loading of > wireless rules, which requires public key crypto in the kernel. There

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

2018-03-28 Thread Federico Pietro Briata
Hello guys, I believe the problem we are facing on Kirkwood with stretch is the same I had with iop32 and other folks with ixp4xx. As the support for iop32 on Wheezy is under EOL, do we have any hopes to solve the kernel size issue common for all this architectures or it's time to replace our nas?

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

2018-03-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 27, 2018, at 2:08 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: > On 2018-03-27 17:29, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Mar 27, 2018, at 1:04 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: >>> As a related subject, I could compile a more stripped down version of >>> the armel kernel, put it for people to download and ask people to >>> co

Re: armel not to be released anymore? (was: armel/marvell kernel size)

2018-03-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 3:21 AM, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > Quoting Ben Hutchings: >> >> Still, as armel will not be a release architecture any more, I suppose >> it can diverge further from the normal configuration. > > I didn't know, that this already has been decided. > Could you point to the em

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

2018-03-27 Thread Rogério Brito
On 2018-03-27 17:29, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Mar 27, 2018, at 1:04 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: >> As a related subject, I could compile a more stripped down version of >> the armel kernel, put it for people to download and ask people to >> comment if it works for them, so that we can gauge what peopl

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

2018-03-27 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Ben and others following the discussion. On 2018-03-27 16:01, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 02:30 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > [...] I will see if all the modules make sense for an embedded system like this and I will send a list of options for opinions by others... >

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

2018-03-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 27, 2018, at 1:04 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: > As a related subject, I could compile a more stripped down version of > the armel kernel, put it for people to download and ask people to > comment if it works for them, so that we can gauge what people actually > need from such a kernel... Ple

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

2018-03-27 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi,Stefan. On 2018-03-27 09:34, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Similarly for wifi cards like those Intel ones like iwlwifi (which is >> the one that I have in this Core 2 Duo here)... > > I can answer this part: yes, you can definitely put an Intel wifi card > in the mini-pcie slot of an ARM box. Yes,

armel not to be released anymore? (was: armel/marvell kernel size)

2018-03-27 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting Ben Hutchings : Still, as armel will not be a release architecture any more, I suppose it can diverge further from the normal configuration. I didn't know, that this already has been decided. Could you point to the emails about this? Thanks!

Re: armel not to be released anymore? (was: armel/marvell kernel size)

2018-03-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 21:21 +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > Quoting Ben Hutchings : > > Still, as armel will not be a release architecture any more, I > > suppose > > it can diverge further from the normal configuration. > > I didn't know, that this already has been decided. > Could you point to

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

2018-03-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 02:30 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: [...] > > > I will see if all the modules make sense for an embedded system like this > > > and I will send a list of options for opinions by others... > > > > [...] > > > > As I see it, the point of installing Debian on little NAS boxes is

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

2018-03-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Similarly for wifi cards like those Intel ones like iwlwifi (which is > the one that I have in this Core 2 Duo here)... I can answer this part: yes, you can definitely put an Intel wifi card in the mini-pcie slot of an ARM box. Stefan

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

2018-03-26 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi Ben and others. On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 10:50 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 18:15 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > [...] > > HOLY MOLY! THIS THING IS SLOW on my Core 2 Duo notebook... Granted, I only > > have 4 GB of RAM, but the amount of modules that it compiles is > > HUGE..

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

2018-03-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 18:15 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: [...] > HOLY MOLY! THIS THING IS SLOW on my Core 2 Duo notebook... Granted, I only > have 4 GB of RAM, but the amount of modules that it compiles is > HUGE... Quite different from a "regular" kernel that I used to compile... Don't you have ac

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

2018-03-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2018-03-22 at 00:12 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: [...] > If nobody is working on getting a new kernel working on armel, I would > like to (at least, unsuccessfully) try to get it to compile. > > At worst, I believe, I can gain some knowledge and compare what I get from > this armel kernel w

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

2018-03-22 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear Roger and other people! On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 8:40 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: > Good to hear from you again! Thank you very much. Glad to hear from you again, keeping the armel flame lit! First of all, it seems weird that my previous message didn't get to the lists. I find this very strang

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

2018-03-22 Thread Roger Shimizu
Dear Rogério, Good to hear from you again! On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 12:12 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: > Hi, all (and sorry for jumping in a bit late). > > On 2018-02-17 10:48, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 06:30:23PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> There's an upstream change