Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-20 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 07:58:33AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > SMP may be broken in some cases, and there is a (upto 20-30 % in some cases i > hear) performance hit to it. For i386. They have to invalidate the cache contents for each lock or so. > Now, with people pro

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 07:50:38AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:53:30AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > If the kernel team would really like to handle issues like detecting > > whether an i386 machine running a UP kernel is SMP, I'd be very happy > > for the code for t

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-19 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:53:30AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > If the kernel team would really like to handle issues like detecting > whether an i386 machine running a UP kernel is SMP, I'd be very happy > for the code for that to move there. However, I don't think the 1:1 > subarch mapping you de

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 05:45:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > Currently the modules are grouped per hand in .udebs, partly artificially, > > partly because they belong to some wide group, and the dependencies are > > handled by hand. > > THe above statement is incorrect. Rea

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-14 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Luther wrote: > Which was a missing .udeb indeed No it wasn't: | Added nls_utf8 to fs-common-modules (Closes: #327891). > introduced by a change in the hfsplus module, or by a change in d-i. That > said, this is orthogonal to the issues discussed here. Also notice that if we > had one-modu

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-14 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Luther wrote: > Currently the modules are grouped per hand in .udebs, partly artificially, > partly because they belong to some wide group, and the dependencies are > handled by hand. THe above statement is incorrect. Read /usr/share/kernel-wedge/commands/copy-modules or even the documentati

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 07:45:25PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Which was a missing .udeb indeed, and quite bothersome. Not sure if it was > introduced by a change in the hfsplus module, or by a change in d-i. That > said, this is orthogonal to the issues discussed here. Also notice that if we > had

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 02:39:56PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 07:45:25PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Which was a missing .udeb indeed, and quite bothersome. Not sure if it was > > introduced by a change in the hfsplus module, or by a change in d-i. That > > said, thi

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 12:56:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > Nope, but i don't think there is a real problem in making d-i kernel > > .udebs working for d-i, if said kernels already worked outside of d-i. > > It's odd that you say this when you have just finished tracking do

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-14 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Luther wrote: > Nope, but i don't think there is a real problem in making d-i kernel > .udebs working for d-i, if said kernels already worked outside of d-i. It's odd that you say this when you have just finished tracking down #327891, which is a perfect example of the kind of issue that can

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 12:09:31PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > Mmm, why is this tripple need of holding udeb state necessary ? > > Well, look at the code to main-menu, anna, and udpkg.. Hehe, will do in Oldenbourg. > > Would not solving this go a great way for diminishing g

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-14 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Luther wrote: > Mmm, why is this tripple need of holding udeb state necessary ? Well, look at the code to main-menu, anna, and udpkg.. > Would not solving this go a great way for diminishing general memory > usage anyway ? No, this is not the current high water mark for memory usage in d-i

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:04:27AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/lib/debian/unstable>for d in *2.6.12*; do dpkg --contents > $d; done |grep \.ko |wc -l > 340 Does that include the missing modules like sata-uli, ahci, etc? Well at least they were missing from the udeb building pac

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:45:12AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:04:27AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > > Well doing a list of the modules in the current linux-image-2.6.12 on > > > > i386, and then deleting from the list so

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-14 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:04:27AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > Well doing a list of the modules in the current linux-image-2.6.12 on > > > i386, and then deleting from the list sound, and netfilter and anything > > > else obviously not needed and p

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:53:30AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > Is this not the moment to modify the way our kernel .udeb packages are > > built, > > It's not a prerequisite for getting a working release of d-i for etch. I > think our users are more interested in being able to

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:04:27AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > Well doing a list of the modules in the current linux-image-2.6.12 on > > i386, and then deleting from the list sound, and netfilter and anything > > else obviously not needed and probably a few things that wou

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-14 Thread Joey Hess
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Well doing a list of the modules in the current linux-image-2.6.12 on > i386, and then deleting from the list sound, and netfilter and anything > else obviously not needed and probably a few things that would be > needed, I got down to just under 400 modules. Probably mos

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-14 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Luther wrote: > Is this not the moment to modify the way our kernel .udeb packages are built, It's not a prerequisite for getting a working release of d-i for etch. I think our users are more interested in being able to install using the new kernel. > Also, i propose that we rename the kern

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 03:56:07PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > We would only package those needed for the installer, we can list those in the > .udebs actually, there should be around a 100 or so. multiplied by around 50 > flavours (maybe less) this brings us around 5000 packages. > > Well, we may

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:26:55AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 03:56:07PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > We would only package those needed for the installer, we can list those in > > the > > .udebs actually, there should be around a 100 or so. multiplied by around 50 >

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 03:28:30PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > not sure i fully understand what you mean here. I guess you are saying you can > kind of fix the b-i/kernel rules to install either linux-image or > kernel-image, but that would be counter productive, now that we have some nice > unifie

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 09:46:32AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 03:28:30PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > not sure i fully understand what you mean here. I guess you are saying you > > can > > kind of fix the b-i/kernel rules to install either linux-image or > > kernel-i

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 08:19:16AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Is this not the moment to modify the way our kernel .udeb packages are built, > and either use a single package building all .udebs or at least some common > infrastructure for building them all if there is still problems in the > archi

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 09:18:55AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 08:19:16AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > The next point would be for base-installer/kernel. I have thought about it > > some, but me talking about that on irc faced only a huge wall of silence, > > so i > >

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 10:50:58PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Well, 2.6.12 has finally made it into testing. I must confess I thought > this would happen over one month before now, but now that it is, we have > no excuse to not get a d-i beta out soon. > > There's still some work to do to switch d-