Bug#708070: enable x32 support for the amd64 kernels

2014-07-26 Thread Robert de Bath
On Sat, 26 Jul 2014, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2014-07-26 at 10:52 +0100, Robert de Bath wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Robert de Bath wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Ben Hutchings wrote: What do you mean, reinstate? This is the same behaviour you get at present. Well, here's a new ve

Bug#708070: enable x32 support for the amd64 kernels

2014-07-26 Thread Robert de Bath
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Robert de Bath wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Ben Hutchings wrote: I had an idea how to unblock this, and finally got round to trying it, and it seems to work. That is, we build in x32 support but require a run-time parameter to enable. So, please try the attached patch

Bug#708070: enable x32 support for the amd64 kernels

2014-07-25 Thread Robert de Bath
upport-conditional.patch quilt push Will try this "shortly". Though I may have to spin up a "VM" to build it. -- Rob. (Robert de Bath ) <http://www.debath.co.uk/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Bug#708070: enable x32 support for the amd64 kernels

2014-07-24 Thread Robert de Bath
On Thu, 24 Jul 2014, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 20:22 +0100, Robert de Bath wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2014, Ian Campbell wrote: But that's rather different to now enabling x32 in the arch=amd64 kernel which is what #708070 is about. Likewise creating a new flavour=x86,arch=

Bug#708070: enable x32 support for the amd64 kernels

2014-07-24 Thread Robert de Bath
turned on ? -- Rob. (Robert de Bath ) <http://www.debath.co.uk/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Bug#583849: You don't need a metapackage

2013-06-08 Thread Robert de Bath
ant any of the contents of the package to be installed. All you do is give equivs the name and version (and any of several other things you may want) of the package you want to fake then install the "fake" package it generates. Problem solved. Bug 583849 FIXED. -- Rob.

Bug#711592: Current x86 linux kernel is misconfigured.

2013-06-08 Thread Robert de Bath
anyway. IIRC: ARM needs frame pointers, Spark always has frame pointers. -- Rob. (Robert de Bath ) <http://www.debath.co.uk/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q