On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 21:28:18 +0100, Wookey wrote:
> Package:dpkg
> Version:1.16.3
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Here is a simple patch to give dpkg support for the forthcoming 64-bit
> arm architecture, called arm64 in Debian and aarch64 upstream.
> 
> So far as I can tell only cputable has to change, and I couldn't find
> anything else to change in dpkg as config.{sub,guess} have already
> been updated, so this really is a one-liner. Do tell if I've missed
> something. dpkg-architecture certainly works as expected. 

Given that the triplet is aarch64-linux-gnu, yes this seems fine
(although the upstream name seems a bit unfortunate...).

I've removed the .* from the config.guess regex because that would
match on aarch64_be, and queued this for my next push, which...

> Having this in wheezy would be helpful to the porters.

... will be included for 1.16.4.

> diff -urN dpkg-1.16.3.original/cputable dpkg-1.16.3/cputable
> --- dpkg-1.16.3.original/cputable     2012-04-27 03:49:02.000000000 +0100
> +++ dpkg-1.16.3/cputable      2012-05-10 19:48:16.172590261 +0100
> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
>  amd64                x86_64          x86_64                  64      little
>  armeb                armeb           arm.*b                  32      big
>  arm          arm             arm.*                   32      little
> +arm64                aarch64         aarch64.*               64      little
>  avr32                avr32           avr32                   32      big
>  hppa         hppa            hppa.*                  32      big
>  m32r         m32r            m32r                    32      big

thanks,
guillem



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