Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > The page is obsolete, since a month ago that code is already in unstable. > It's qemu-user only, though, so you can use it to build and run stuff but > not to debug bootloaders, the kernel or such. Full aarch64 system emulation is in qemu u

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-17 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 05:24:38PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > is there a clear set of instructions > > somewhere - a wiki page for example - on how to debootstrap an arm64 > > qemu so that even if it's dead slow it's still possible to help out? > > https://wiki.debian.org/Arm64

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:10 AM, Wookey wrote: > The debian-port arm64 rebootstrap is progressing nicely, and we just > passed 4200 source packages built, with another few hundred > pending. There are now 2 buildds running. awesome > Thus I'd love it if anyone else could help go through the fai

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> suggestion, wookey: i'd love to help... but obviously with no > hardware that's kinda hard: is there a clear set of instructions > somewhere - a wiki page for example - on how to debootstrap an arm64 > qemu so that even if it's dead slow it's still possible to help out? https://wiki.debian.org/

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-17 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:19:26AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 20:44 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 07:43:18AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 22:49 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:20:53PM +0

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 20:44 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 07:43:18AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 22:49 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:20:53PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 02:10 +0100, Wo

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-16 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 07:43:18AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 22:49 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:20:53PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 02:10 +0100, Wookey wrote: > > > > Also if anyone has expertise in language portin

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 22:49 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:20:53PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 02:10 +0100, Wookey wrote: > > > Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd like to hear > > > from you. Below is the list of languages we

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:20:53PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 02:10 +0100, Wookey wrote: > > Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd like to hear > > from you. Below is the list of languages we believe still need porting to > > arm64: > > Ruby wasn't on the l

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 15.05.2014 03:10, schrieb Wookey: > Go (we have gccgo, but not gcgo) this is not arm64 specific. Debian has a serious problem in that the current Go maintainers are focused on gc only, which only supports amd64, i386, armhf, and probably armel. > Mono needs porting > GCL > CLISP need porti

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 02:10:39AM +0100, Wookey wrote: > GHCi (ghc is done, but not ghci - is this hard?) This is hard. You need either an LLVM-based port or a native code generator, and in either case I think you need some linker support in GHC. Both of these are serious compiler engineer proj

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Le jeudi 15 mai 2014 à 02:10 +0100, Wookey a écrit : > Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd like to hear > from you. Below is the list of languages we believe still need porting to > arm64: > Julia Note that currently Julia is only available on i386/amd64 (so no armel/armhf for

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2014-05-15 02:10 Wookey: The debian-port arm64 rebootstrap is progressing nicely, and we just passed 4200 source packages built, with another few hundred pending. There are now 2 buildds running. In the course of that 344 have failed to build, (see http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/architect

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 02:10 +0100, Wookey wrote: > Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd like to hear > from you. Below is the list of languages we believe still need porting to > arm64: Ruby wasn't on the list, is that under control? Ruby seems to be at the bottom of the build-d

arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-14 Thread Wookey
The debian-port arm64 rebootstrap is progressing nicely, and we just passed 4200 source packages built, with another few hundred pending. There are now 2 buildds running. In the course of that 344 have failed to build, (see http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/architecture.php?a=arm64&suite=sid