Debian armel/armhf minimal assembly support ?

2013-04-03 Thread Bill Allombert
Dear ARM porters, I like to know what is the minimum CPU level for armel and armhf. In particular is support for the following assembly instructions required ? umull umlal clz The point is whether I should configure a Debian package (pari) to take advantage of these instructions. Cheers, --

Re: Debian armel/armhf minimal assembly support ?

2013-04-03 Thread peter green
Bill Allombert wrote: Dear ARM porters, I like to know what is the minimum CPU level for armel and armhf. Minimum CPU level for debian armel is armv4t Minimum CPU level for debian armhf is armv7-a Derivatives may of course adjust these minimums. Also be aware that debian armhf defaults to

NAS raid with Debian?

2013-04-03 Thread Rick Thomas
Are there any readily available, inexpensive (US$200-500), NAS (Network Attached Storage) boxes in the 1-3TB capacity that are capable of running Debian and NFS? I'm looking for a device that can export a RAID-1, either ext4 or ZFS, capacity in the 1-3TB range (two disks, each of that

Re: NAS raid with Debian?

2013-04-03 Thread Nigel Roberts
On 04/04/2013, at 11:21 AM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling j...@aenertia.net wrote: You are best to build your own, given that the majority of cheap NAS boxes use Freescale ARM or even MIP's chips. The poor little buses in these things are barely able to transport between 10-50mbit between the CPU and

Re: NAS raid with Debian?

2013-04-03 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
On 4 April 2013 14:05, Nigel Roberts ni...@nobiscuit.com wrote: Marvell Kirkwood SoC Is it the SoC or the Switch chipset doing the heavy lifting there? What conditions do you get that throughput? The Kirkwood SoC's are a bit better than some of the rubbish out there, it is important to note