RFC: compile with BWX thus only support EV56 and later CPUs

2014-09-05 Thread Michael Cree
There is a discussion on the Linux kernel mailing list that the kernel in future will only support architectures that can guarantee atomic aligned scalar accesses down to the byte level (at the moment the requirement is only for int (32bit) and long (64bit)). The only architecture that does not

sh4 missing on packages.debian.org

2014-09-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Aurelien! I just noticed that there seems to be something wrong with packages.debian.org regarding sh4. Many packages are not listed there as available even though they are built and installed. For example, src:glibc, has been fully built on sh4, yet: https://packages.debian.org/sid/libc6

Time to change the debian-ports list?

2014-09-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi folks, I believe the existing debian-ports setup (as an exploder pointing to all the different port lists) is not working well at all. It's a confusing setup to many people, which leads to lots of cross-list noise that's probably not warranted. Some of the traffic is also clearly meant to be

Re: Time to change the debian-ports list?

2014-09-05 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, On 05/09/14 18:39, Steve McIntyre wrote: * Remove the confusion: turn debian-ports into a separate *normal* mailing list, announce it and let people subscribe to it [...] That sounds perfect IMHO. It could be used for general discussion about porting, upcoming new ports, or any ports

Re: sh4 missing on packages.debian.org

2014-09-05 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 05/09/14 18:04, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: For example, src:glibc, has been fully built on sh4, yet: yamato:~# apt-cache policy libc6 libc6: Installed: 2.19-9 Candidate: 2.19-9 Version table: *** 2.19-9 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status I can only find arch:all packages

Re: Time to change the debian-ports list?

2014-09-05 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Steven Chamberlain dixit: On 05/09/14 18:39, Steve McIntyre wrote: * Remove the confusion: turn debian-ports into a separate *normal* mailing list, announce it and let people subscribe to it [...] That sounds perfect IMHO. It could be used for general discussion about porting, upcoming