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