Re: Espresso (Nintendo Wii U) SMP build support

2025-02-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 10:49:36AM +, Athanasios Anastasiou wrote: > Hi > > I have noticed the same about the Wii and agree that it would be great to > have Debian on it. But I can also see the point o > > If we are talking about taking advantage of SMP (?), the kernel is supposed > to do thi

Re: Espresso (Nintendo Wii U) SMP build support

2025-02-26 Thread Kurt Stine
>If we are talking about taking advantage of SMP (?), the kernel is supposed to >do this automatically by balancing computations across all CPUs. >Therefore, presumably, only the kernel would have to be compiled with any >additional effort. >Except if I am missing something here, is the Wii's CPU

Re: Espresso (Nintendo Wii U) SMP build support

2025-02-26 Thread Athanasios Anastasiou
Hi I have noticed the same about the Wii and agree that it would be great to have Debian on it. But I can also see the point o If we are talking about taking advantage of SMP (?), the kernel is supposed to do this automatically by balancing computations across all CPUs. Therefore, presumably, onl

Re: Espresso (Nintendo Wii U) SMP build support

2025-02-25 Thread Kurt Stine
On 2/25/25, 1:07 PM, "Lennart Sorensen" mailto:lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>> wrote: >Well someone would have to build and maintain it. It seems hard enough to >even get that for powerpc and ppc64, never mind a really niche platform. It would essentially be the same as the powerpc port, except tha

Re: Espresso (Nintendo Wii U) SMP build support

2025-02-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 07:30:55PM +, Kurt Stine wrote: > I agree, there's no reason to penalize normal ppc users with the patch. It's > why I'm suggesting a separate port/repo with Espresso SMP support. Well someone would have to build and maintain it. It seems hard enough to even get that

Re: Espresso (Nintendo Wii U) SMP build support

2025-02-25 Thread Kurt Stine
Hi Len, >On 2/25/25, 4:57 AM, "Lennart Sorensen" mailto:lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>> wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 02:49:32AM +, Kurt Stine wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> What would it take to have a debian build for the Espresso (Nintendo Wii U) >> CPU? >> >> Currently, due to overall E

Re: Espresso (Nintendo Wii U) SMP build support

2025-02-25 Thread Kurt Stine
Hi Adrian,  On 2/25/25, 5:03 AM, "John Paul Adrian Glaubitz" mailto:glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de>> wrote: >Hello Kurt, > >On Tue, 2025-02-25 at 02:49 +, Kurt Stine wrote: >> What would it take to have a debian build for the Espresso (Nintendo Wii U) >> CPU? >> >> Currently, due to overall Es

Re: Espresso (Nintendo Wii U) SMP build support

2025-02-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Kurt, On Tue, 2025-02-25 at 02:49 +, Kurt Stine wrote: > What would it take to have a debian build for the Espresso (Nintendo Wii U) > CPU? > > Currently, due to overall Espresso weirdness, both GCC and glibc need to be > patched > for any applications to take advantage of all three c

Re: Espresso (Nintendo Wii U) SMP build support

2025-02-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 02:49:32AM +, Kurt Stine wrote: > Hello all, > > What would it take to have a debian build for the Espresso (Nintendo Wii U) > CPU? > > Currently, due to overall Espresso weirdness, both GCC and glibc need to be > patched for any applications to take advantage of all

Espresso (Nintendo Wii U) SMP build support

2025-02-24 Thread Kurt Stine
Hello all, What would it take to have a debian build for the Espresso (Nintendo Wii U) CPU? Currently, due to overall Espresso weirdness, both GCC and glibc need to be patched for any applications to take advantage of all three cores. This means every application and library needs to be patched