Re: PowerPCSPE port status

2012-09-17 Thread Kumar Gala
On Sep 17, 2012, at 4:22 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:00:17PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: >> 8572 and P2020 are dual cores / SMP. They _are_ fast and support more than >> 4GiB of memory. They play in the performance league. MPC512x are the slow >> ones. I b

Re: PowerPCSPE port status

2012-09-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:00:17PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > 8572 and P2020 are dual cores / SMP. They _are_ fast and support more than > 4GiB of memory. They play in the performance league. MPC512x are the slow > ones. I built the port on _one_ 8536 and the buildd was mostly wating

Re: PowerPCSPE port status

2012-09-17 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:25:49PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > at all because they are not standard powerpc compatible. We like being > able to use an IBM p710 as a native build machine, and the powerpcspe > has no fast machines at all that you can build natively on and there > probably never

Re: How to upgrade 6 - 7

2012-09-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 07:25:27PM -0400, Logan Brown wrote: > I would never recommend attempting a dist upgrade to unstable. I've > tried it twice in the past, and both times led to reinstalling the > from scratch. Dependencies get mixed up, and you're left with a highly > unstable "bastardized" s

Re: PowerPCSPE port status

2012-09-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:18:14PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > I am getting mails from time to time "how can I help with the port I need new > packages" or something like that but after I tell what there is to do I don't > hear anything anymore. P2020 is still used in new designs and

Re: PowerPCSPE port status

2012-09-17 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:21:51PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:07:25AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > > Freescale still sells numerous SoCs that would utilize this port. (8548, > > P2020, P102x, P1010, etc.). So if its not impacting anyone would be useful >

Re: PowerPCSPE port status

2012-09-17 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:07:25AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > Freescale still sells numerous SoCs that would utilize this port. (8548, > P2020, P102x, P1010, etc.). So if its not impacting anyone would be useful > to keep it around. Ehm yes. I think they guarantee something like 10 years of av

Re: PowerPCSPE port status

2012-09-17 Thread Kumar Gala
On Sep 17, 2012, at 5:18 AM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:51:33AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> Hi, > Hi Aurelien, > >> It seems that the powerpcspe port hasn't seen an upload since the >> beginning of the year, with the consequence that less than 30% of the >>

Re: PowerPCSPE port status

2012-09-17 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:51:33AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Hi, Hi Aurelien, > It seems that the powerpcspe port hasn't seen an upload since the > beginning of the year, with the consequence that less than 30% of the > packages are now up to date. What is the status of this port? I tried to

Re: PowerPCSPE port status

2012-09-17 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi, On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:18:14PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:51:33AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > Hi, > Hi Aurelien, > > > It seems that the powerpcspe port hasn't seen an upload since the > > beginning of the year, with the consequence that less

PowerPCSPE port status

2012-09-17 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi, It seems that the powerpcspe port hasn't seen an upload since the beginning of the year, with the consequence that less than 30% of the packages are now up to date. What is the status of this port? Are there still people working on it? using it? Thanks, Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno