Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-31 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 07:59:50AM +0900, Hiroyuki Yamamoto wrote: > Hi, > > wbon...@theitmakers.com wrote: > > The current target is e5500, which means i rebuild packages with the > > following additionnal flags : -mcpu=e5500 -mno-altivec -mtune=e5500 > > > > Is there some more generic flags i c

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-31 Thread Hiroyuki Yamamoto
Hi, wbon...@theitmakers.com wrote: > The current target is e5500, which means i rebuild packages with the > following additionnal flags : -mcpu=e5500 -mno-altivec -mtune=e5500 > > Is there some more generic flags i could use ? According to binutils, opcodes of e5500 is added to ones of Book E, a

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-31 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 31, 2016, at 8:34 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 01:18:53AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: >> The altivec instructions and other optimizations speed-up significantly >> certain kinds of programs on CPUs that can use them. It would be a shame to >> loose the optimized

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-31 Thread William Bonnet
Hi, > That's actually a good question. I am guessing you could contact the > DSA team directly: > > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/resources.html#server-machines > > You still have the option to maintain this machine by yourself > (non-DSA machines are just fine: https://d

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2016-03-31 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Jo Shields wrote: >> >> >> On 31/03/16 11:49, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >>> While at it, I was wondering why a portion of the patch did not make >>> it into Debian: >>> >>> https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/sho

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-31 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 01:18:53AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > The altivec instructions and other optimizations speed-up significantly > certain kinds of programs on CPUs that can use them. It would be a shame to > loose the optimized versions by dropping back to the lowest common > denominator

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2016-03-31 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Jo Shields wrote: > > > On 31/03/16 11:49, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> While at it, I was wondering why a portion of the patch did not make >> it into Debian: >> >> https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=28679#c9 >> >> + /* It is expected to be a function des

Re: RAS tools : pull request from Ubuntu

2016-03-31 Thread Frederic Bonnard
Hi again, I'm still looking for kind sponsors that could include the following packages that we did with the help of Ubuntu's people ; also let me know if something is missing or anything I can do to help. They live in Ubuntu since 14.04, but we would be happy to see them in Debian too :) lsvpd :

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2016-03-31 Thread Jo Shields
On 31/03/16 11:49, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > While at it, I was wondering why a portion of the patch did not make > it into Debian: > > https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=28679#c9 > > + /* It is expected to be a function descriptor on power pre-v2 ABI */ > + buf = mono_create_ftnptr

Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload

2016-03-31 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
While at it, I was wondering why a portion of the patch did not make it into Debian: https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=28679#c9 + /* It is expected to be a function descriptor on power pre-v2 ABI */ + buf = mono_create_ftnptr (mono_domain_get (), buf);

Re: PPC64 port status

2016-03-31 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 30, 2016, at 10:13 AM, wbon...@theitmakers.com wrote: > Hi, > > Le 30.03.2016 17:09, Breno Leitao a écrit : >> Hi Mathieu, >> On 03/30/2016 05:40 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: So i would like to know what is the target, and if it is possible to consider supporting the "most gener