Re: Enabling PIE by default for Stretch

2016-10-09 Thread Niels Thykier
Niels Thykier: > Hi, > > As brought up on the meeting last night, I think we should try to go for > PIE by default in Stretch on all release architectures! > * It is a substantial hardening feature > * Upstream has vastly reduced the performance penalty for x86 > * The majority of all porters b

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-10-09 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2016-10-09 at 21:12 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > [ adding debian-powerpc ] > > On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 06:54:44PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > > Niels Thykier schrieb: > > > If I am to support powerpc as a realease architecture for Stretch, I > > > need to know that there are *active*

Re: CPU requirements for powerpc

2016-10-09 Thread Rick Thomas
Your evidence is compelling. Even if it doesn’t present a smoking gun. It definitely looks like you’ve got enough material for a bug report against syslog-ng. You can always add to the bug report later when you have a suggested patch. Rick On Oct 9, 2016, at 1:58 AM, Christoph Biedl wrote: >

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-10-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
[ adding debian-powerpc ] On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 06:54:44PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > Niels Thykier schrieb: > > If I am to support powerpc as a realease architecture for Stretch, I > > need to know that there are *active* porters behind it committed to > > keeping it in the working. Pe

Re: CPU requirements for powerpc

2016-10-09 Thread Christoph Biedl
Rick Thomas wrote... > Can you give us some more details? In general I'm somewhat reluctant since first conclusions are usually wrong and I certainly don't want to create noise at the wrong place. So I'd rather debug a little longer until I can identify the real cause, and create a patch to prove

Re: PowerPC agpmode issues

2016-10-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2016-10-08 at 12:05 -0700, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote: > Performed an apt dist-upgrade and rebooted with agpmode=4 and still > the GPU is failing with errors. Should I proceed to place a bug > report on this? I wouldn't even try to be honest. The HW issues in Apple AGP implementation pr

Re: CPU requirements for powerpc

2016-10-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 8, 2016, at 11:02 AM, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Hello, > > just to make sure I got things right: The 74xx/G4 processors are > to be supported by Debian's powerpc architecture? > > Background: On my G4 boxes I encounter SIGILL from several packages, > turns out they were built with compi