Re: [fedora-arm] ARM Primary FESCO discussion results, round 1

2012-03-20 Thread Andrew Wafaa
Aloha, On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 21:00 -0400, Chris Tyler wrote: How do packagers test and resolve failures on ARM if they don't own an ARM device? There are several solutions available: 1. They can use emulation. Fedora already includes a good-quality ARM emulator (qemu-system-arm) that

Re: [fedora-arm] ARM Primary FESCO discussion results, round 1

2012-03-20 Thread Jon Masters
On 03/20/2012 12:30 AM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: On 03/19/2012 04:46 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: How do packagers test and resolve failures on ARM if they don't own an ARM device? I like Chris's suggestion of the simulator- that's good coverage. I'd also support providing login hosts to...

Re: [fedora-arm] ARM Primary FESCO discussion results, round 1

2012-03-20 Thread Jon Masters
On 03/20/2012 12:30 AM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: On 03/19/2012 04:46 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: What does the kernel team think about the the time required to build kernels on ARM? How will it affect their workflow? I suspect Jon is going to discuss with kernel@. He is. Jon.

Re: [fedora-arm] ARM Primary FESCO discussion results, round 1

2012-03-20 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On 03/20/2012 02:48 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote: Are alignment problems not considered bugs? It's not just that this will break code on ARM v7 and IIRC SPARC, but alignment issues also cause cache line straddling which has a performance impact. I took this question to be a case of