Summary of the ARM ports BoF at DC15

2015-09-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Please note the cross-post and Reply-To ] Hi folks, As promised, here's a quick summary of what was discussed at the BoF session in Heidelberg. Apologies for the delay - it takes a while to write these up, especially when struck down with the traditional post-DebConf plague. :-( Thanks to the

Re: nodejs on arm64 now in experimental

2015-09-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 04:25:32PM +0100, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote: > Doesn't "softfloat" refer to the ABI rather than the hardware? So you > can pass floats in integer registers, as if you didn't have any FPU, > but move them into FPU registers to do arithmetic. I believe you can optionally hav

Re: nodejs on arm64 now in experimental

2015-09-11 Thread Edmund Grimley Evans
> So it would probably just be best to drop armel from nodejs.. I would guess that depends on how much work is involved and whether there is someone willing to do the work. Or does Policy forbid packages that fail gracefully on some hardware? I definitely think you shouldn't let armel hold things

Re: nodejs on arm64 now in experimental

2015-09-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 03:58:04PM +0100, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote: > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.javascript.v8.general/7096 > says: "Starting with the 3.18 release, the minimal V8 requirements > will increase to ARMv6 + VFPv2." > > That's something that's changed since libv8-3.14

Re: nodejs on arm64 now in experimental

2015-09-11 Thread Edmund Grimley Evans
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.javascript.v8.general/7096 says: "Starting with the 3.18 release, the minimal V8 requirements will increase to ARMv6 + VFPv2." That's something that's changed since libv8-3.14. So, unless you're planning to do some significant extra work, or I have funda

Re: nodejs on arm64 now in experimental

2015-09-11 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote: > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.javascript.v8.general/7096 > says: "Starting with the 3.18 release, the minimal V8 requirements > will increase to ARMv6 + VFPv2." Well https://wiki.debian.org/ArmPorts ArmEabiPort - newer p

Re: nodejs on arm64 now in experimental

2015-09-11 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:51 AM, Jérémy Lal wrote: > > > 2015-09-11 10:48 GMT+02:00 Edmund Grimley Evans > : >> >> This seems to be the problem on armel: >> >> configure:o['variables']['arm_fpu'] = 'vfpv2' >> >> It probably should be "vfp" instead of "vfpv2". A GCC man page says: >> >>

Re: nodejs on arm64 now in experimental

2015-09-11 Thread Jérémy Lal
2015-09-11 10:48 GMT+02:00 Edmund Grimley Evans < edmund.grimley.ev...@gmail.com>: > This seems to be the problem on armel: > > configure:o['variables']['arm_fpu'] = 'vfpv2' > > It probably should be "vfp" instead of "vfpv2". A GCC man page says: > >-mfpu=name >-mfpe=number >

Re: flash-kernel puts QNAP on its knees

2015-09-11 Thread JM
On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Rob J. Epping wrote: > I hacked flash-kernel to use flashcp from mtd-utils. Where using cat > triggers ATA timeout and reset, using flashcp worked flawlessly. > > > GRTNX, > RobJE > That's great news! Would you mind sharing the diff for flash-kernel? Regards, Jan