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

2018-06-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 10:20:50AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > in addition, arm64 is usually speculative OoO (Cavium ThunderX V1 > being a notable exception) which means it's vulnerable to spectre and > meltdown attacks, whereas 32-bit ARM is exclusively in-order. if you > want t

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:35:20PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Yeah, apparently it's cheaper to bootstrap a complete new little endian > platform than to fix portability issues in existing software... I believe a big reason is that Nvidia cards expect little endian data, and the overhead of

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 04:11:32PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Well, we just did a full archive rebuild of "ppc64" to be able to > support ppc64 on the e5500 cores by disabling AltiVec, didn't we? Well it is getting there. -- Len Sorensen

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 08:35:02PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > Do they implement the ISA required by the existing Debian port? Yes. The only ones that don't are the Freescale 85xx and P10[12]x chips, which are powerpcspe due to using the e500 core. All the 83xx and 82xx chips which are still

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 09:04:12AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > The debian-powerpc@l.d.o mailing list is active so I would say it > still has some users. I have been using partch.d.o for doing some work > on PowerPC. I posted a summary of work people have been doing on this > port lately: > >

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:19:24AM -0400, Federico Sologuren wrote: > i have a HP Visualize B2000 that i managed to install last night from iso > distribution that i found after a lot of looking. at this point only > terminal is working. will keep reading to get debian up and running. > > i would

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:38:29AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > Here is a little status update on the mails we have received so far. > First off, thanks to all the porters who have already replied! > > So far, the *no one* has stepped up to back the following architectures: > >hurd-i386 >

Re: status of ruby 1.9.1 wrt porting

2011-08-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
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 > experimental. Now is an ideal time to work on porting issues and get the > fixes integrated up