Re: Bug#703209: linux: Please Add multiplatform flavour to armhf

2013-03-19 Thread Rtp
Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk writes: Hi, On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 08:41 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: Hi, Thank you for your comment. On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 08:35 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: Package:

Re: Bug#703209: linux: Please Add multiplatform flavour to armhf

2013-03-19 Thread Tixy
On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 03:46 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 08:41 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: [...] In future all ARM kernels should be multi-platform, but I expect there will still be

Re: Bug#703209: linux: Please Add multiplatform flavour to armhf

2013-03-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: I would much prefer a name that will provide a more useful distinction in future (and not be too long!). Perhaps it should refer to the CPU requirement like the flavours for some other architectures. How about the same scheme as on other

Re: Bug#703209: linux: Please Add multiplatform flavour to armhf

2013-03-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 08:44 +0100, Arnaud Patard wrote: I already commented some days ago on debian-arm that currently multiplatform support must wait. It is useless as usb support is _broken_ on multiplatform. Hopefully, Linaro devs seem back to work and looks like we may have a patch merged

Re: Bug#703209: linux: Please Add multiplatform flavour to armhf

2013-03-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 08:03 +, Tixy wrote: On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 03:46 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 08:41 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: [...] In future all ARM kernels should be

Re: Bug#703209: linux: Please Add multiplatform flavour to armhf

2013-03-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 16:13 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: I would much prefer a name that will provide a more useful distinction in future (and not be too long!). Perhaps it should refer to the CPU requirement like the flavours for some

Re: Bug#703209: linux: Please Add multiplatform flavour to armhf

2013-03-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 15:05 +, Ian Campbell wrote: I think the question here is what the `uname -r` bit should be. Specifically the $FLAVOUR in 3.x.y-z-$FLAVOUR. Woops, I missed that uname -r includes the flavour bit. I think there is an argument for making the multiplatform case be the

RE: Can't get a Linux 3.6-rc zImage smaller than 2MB

2013-03-19 Thread Chris Wilkinson
So it doesn't matter what is in /boot after flash has been loaded by flash-kernel? Redboot systems boot only and directly from flash so /boot is only a convenient and conventional initial staging post for flash-kernel to get the kernel and initramfs from and is irrelevant from that point on?