Re: Getting rid of alignment faults in userspace

2011-06-18 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Friday 17 June 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Friday 17 June 2011 14:10:11 Dave Martin wrote: As part of the general effort to make open source on ARM better, I think it would be great if

Re: Getting rid of alignment faults in userspace

2011-06-18 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote: int main(int argc, char * argv[]) { char buf[8]; void *v = buf[1]; unsigned int *p = (unsigned int *)v; strcpy(buf, abcdefg); printf(*%p = 0x%08x\n, p, *p); return 0; } Obviously, there is a buffer overflow

Re: Getting rid of alignment faults in userspace

2011-06-18 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011, Arnaud Patard wrote: Dave Martin dave.mar...@linaro.org writes: Hi, Hi all, I've recently become aware that a few packages are causing alignment faults on ARM, and are relying on the alignment fixup emulation code in the kernel in order to work. Such faults

Is the ARM hf gcc the Linaro version?

2011-06-18 Thread Phil Endecott
Dear Experts, I was considering downloading the Linaro toolchain to run on my iMX53 board - but then I noticed that the gcc that I already have claims to be Debian/Linaro: $ gcc --version gcc (Debian/Linaro 4.5.2-5.1) 4.5.2 So, does this already include whatever ARM tweaks the Linaro people

Re: Getting rid of alignment faults in userspace

2011-06-20 Thread Riku Voipio
On 18 June 2011 22:17, Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pi...@linaro.org wrote: Turns out that a prominent ARM developer still has binaries from the ARMv3 era around, and the default of not fixing up misaligned user space accesses is for remaining compatible with them. So if you do have a version of

Re: Getting rid of alignment faults in userspace

2011-06-20 Thread Dave Martin
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:53:21PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote: There is still going to be a small cost even in hardware fixup so this is very much worth solving despite it's becoming invisible because the chips are hiding / solving it already. But I believe that h/w feature is turned

Re: Getting rid of alignment faults in userspace

2011-06-20 Thread Dave Martin
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 03:17:59PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Sat, 18 Jun 2011, Arnaud Patard wrote: Dave Martin dave.mar...@linaro.org writes: Hi, Hi all, I've recently become aware that a few packages are causing alignment faults on ARM, and are relying on the alignment

Re: Getting rid of alignment faults in userspace

2011-06-20 Thread Dave Martin
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:48:16AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Sat, 18 Jun 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Friday 17 June 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Friday 17 June 2011 14:10:11 Dave Martin wrote: As part of the general effort to

Re: Getting rid of alignment faults in userspace

2011-06-20 Thread Dave Martin
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 03:23:49PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 01:10:11PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote: For ARM, we can achieve the goal by augmenting the default kernel command- line options: either alignment=3 Fix up each alingment fault, but also

Upgrading u-boot on Sheevaplug

2011-06-24 Thread Jorge Cacho
Hi all, I'm trying to install Debian on my Sheevaplug so I'm following this instructions: http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install.html My sheevaplug has a 3.4.16 u-boot version so I need to upgrade it. The issue is that I need to download U-Boot 3.4.27+pingtoo binary u-boot

Re: Upgrading u-boot on Sheevaplug

2011-06-25 Thread DrEagle
Hello, Le 25/06/2011 07:39, Jorge Cacho a écrit : Hi all, I'm trying to install Debian on my Sheevaplug so I'm following this instructions: http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install.html My sheevaplug has a 3.4.16 u-boot version so I need to upgrade it. The issue is that I

eSATA on TS-219P+ does not work

2011-06-25 Thread rpane...@tiscali.it
Hello, I have a TS-219P+ with Squeeze installed. Unfortunately the two eSATA ports don't seem to work (if I plug an external HD dmesg doesn't notice). According to http://lists.debian.org/debian- arm/2009/08/msg00046.html eSATA should work on similar hardware but the TS-219P+ is newer

Re: eSATA on TS-219P+ does not work

2011-06-25 Thread rpane...@tiscali.it
additional info: http://pastebin.com/qqt7wuM9 output of #lspci -v -v for TS-219P (eSATA supported) and TS-219P+ (eSATA _not_ supported). Non temiamo alcun confronto: Tiscali ha l'Adsl più veloce d'Italia! Risparmia con Tutto Incluso Light: Voce + Adsl 20 mega a soli 17,95 € al mese per 12

Re: Upgrading u-boot on Sheevaplug

2011-06-25 Thread Clint Adams
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 07:39:53AM +0200, Jorge Cacho wrote: My sheevaplug has a 3.4.16 u-boot version so I need to upgrade it. The issue is that I need to download U-Boot 3.4.27+pingtoo binary u-boot version (as said on http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/uboot-upgrade.html) but

Re: eSATA on TS-219P+ does not work

2011-06-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* rpane...@tiscali.it rpane...@tiscali.it [2011-06-25 16:03]: additional info: http://pastebin.com/qqt7wuM9 output of #lspci -v -v My TS-219P+ shows: 00:01.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03) 00:01.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology

Re: Upgrading u-boot on Sheevaplug

2011-06-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 25, 2011, at 10:48 AM, Clint Adams wrote: On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 07:39:53AM +0200, Jorge Cacho wrote: My sheevaplug has a 3.4.16 u-boot version so I need to upgrade it. The issue is that I need to download U-Boot 3.4.27+pingtoo binary u-boot version (as said on

Re: Upgrading u-boot on Sheevaplug

2011-06-25 Thread Jorge Cacho
Under what circumstances would one need/want the Debian u-boot package? I don't know the details. I only know what is written at http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/uboot-upgrade.html. So for installing Debian on my Sheevaplug (a computer plug) I need to upgrade my u-boot version

Re: eSATA on TS-219P+ does not work

2011-06-25 Thread rpane...@tiscali.it
My TS-219P+ shows: 00:01.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03) 00:01.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03) which is in line with the TS-219P. Is your TS-219P+ very new? I can ask QNAP if

Anybody have a fw_env.config file for Sheeva Plug et al? use with uboot-envtools package?

2011-06-25 Thread Rick Thomas
The uboot-envtools package does not put a /etc/fw_env.config file in place when installed. It does list a bunch of example files in /etc/share/doc/uboot-envtools/examples/ but it doesn't say which one (if any) of them are good for use with the SheevaPlug (or any of it's

Re: Upgrading u-boot on Sheevaplug

2011-06-25 Thread Clint Adams
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 01:15:31PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Under what circumstances would one need/want the Debian u-boot package? The Debian package tracks mainline ( http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot ) with an added patchset. It tends to support more devices and filesystems and versions of

Re: Anybody have a fw_env.config file for Sheeva Plug et al? use with uboot-envtools package?

2011-06-25 Thread Clint Adams
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 04:14:30PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: It does list a bunch of example files in /etc/share/doc/uboot-envtools/examples/ but it doesn't say which one (if any) of them are good for use with the SheevaPlug (or any of it's relatives). Can anybody give me a clue? If

Re: Anybody have a fw_env.config file for Sheeva Plug et al? use with uboot-envtools package?

2011-06-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 25, 2011, at 6:18 PM, Clint Adams wrote: If you're using one of the wonky Marvell forks, it might be this: /dev/mtd0 0xa 0x2 0x2 Apparently that's what I'm using. I installed that and then (assuming that fw_printenv wouldn't do any harm -- I

Re: eSATA on TS-219P+ does not work

2011-06-26 Thread Ralph Metzler
rpane...@tiscali.it writes: My TS-219P+ shows: 00:01.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03) 00:01.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03) which is in line with the TS-219P. Is

Re: Anybody have a fw_env.config file for Sheeva Plug et al? use with uboot-envtools package?

2011-06-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/25/2011 06:18 PM, Clint Adams wrote: On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 04:14:30PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: It does list a bunch of example files in /etc/share/doc/uboot-envtools/examples/ but it doesn't say which one (if any) of them are good for use with the SheevaPlug (or any of it's

Squeeze on Thecus N2100

2011-06-28 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Due to the long-standing DMA issues, I'm still running lenny on my Thecus N2100. I'd quite like to upgrade it, however. Has anyone got a solution: either running the old kernel, patching the new one or has the performance somehow improved in newer kernels? I'd also be interested to know if

Re: Anybody have a fw_env.config file for Sheeva Plug et al? use with uboot-envtools package?

2011-06-28 Thread Clint Adams
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 04:40:04PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: if searching through the NAND is a reasonable way to solve this problem (i think it is, at least for some NAND layouts), perhaps it would be good to have a tool that knows how to do this automatically. I don't think it's that

Re: eSATA on TS-219P+ does not work

2011-06-29 Thread rpane...@tiscali.it
Sorry for bothering but I _really_ need this feature so I just want to know if there's any chance to get it working anytime soon. Martin, have you tried to contact QNAP? Is there any information I can provide that would help? Non temiamo alcun confronto: Tiscali ha l'Adsl più veloce d'Italia!

Re: Upgrading u-boot on Sheevaplug

2011-06-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Clint Adams cl...@debian.org [2011-06-25 14:48]: On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 07:39:53AM +0200, Jorge Cacho wrote: My sheevaplug has a 3.4.16 u-boot version so I need to upgrade it. The issue is that I need to download U-Boot 3.4.27+pingtoo binary u-boot version (as said on

Re: eSATA on TS-219P+ does not work

2011-06-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* rpane...@tiscali.it rpane...@tiscali.it [2011-06-29 14:31]: Sorry for bothering but I _really_ need this feature so I just want to know if there's any chance to get it working anytime soon. have you tried to contact QNAP? QNAP has confirmed that the device ID has changed and has suggested

Re: eSATA on TS-219P+ does not work

2011-06-29 Thread rpane...@tiscali.it
QNAP has confirmed that the device ID has changed and has suggested that adding the ID to the driver is all that's needed. I can send you a test kernel if you want. Yes, I'll be very happy to test it! Non temiamo alcun confronto: Tiscali ha l'Adsl più veloce d'Italia! Risparmia con Tutto

Re: Upgrading u-boot on Sheevaplug

2011-06-29 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 29, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Clint Adams cl...@debian.org [2011-06-25 14:48]: On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 07:39:53AM +0200, Jorge Cacho wrote: My sheevaplug has a 3.4.16 u-boot version so I need to upgrade it. The issue is that I need to download U-Boot 3.4.27+pingtoo

Re: Upgrading u-boot on Sheevaplug

2011-06-29 Thread Clint Adams
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 06:44:27PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: I'm planning to update my guide to the u-boot in Debian once the final 2011.06 release is there. Clint, any estimate when you intend to upload? I can probably get to it this weekend. Anyone else is welcome to do so before

fpc build problems on some debian armel buildds

2011-06-30 Thread peter green
Freepascal has been failing sometimes with einouterror file not found on armel buildds but i'm not really seeing any pattern to the failures either in terms of upstream versions or in terms of buildds 2.4.0-2 was successfully built on muscat 2.4.0-3 failed on arnold 2.4.0-4 failed on arnold

Re: fpc build problems on some debian armel buildds

2011-06-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 03:33:36PM +0100, peter green wrote: Freepascal has been failing sometimes with einouterror file not found on armel buildds but i'm not really seeing any pattern to the failures either in terms of upstream versions or in terms of buildds 2.4.0-2 was successfully built on

Debian on the Archos 5 internet tablet

2011-06-30 Thread green
I am interested in purchasing the Archos 5 internet tablet for running Debian. Does anyone here have any experience with the Archos 5 IT? I have a Nokia N810 and am disgusted with it. I am interested in a device that will actually run Debian, preferably with a mainline linux kernel.

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: fpc build problems on some debian armel buildds

2011-06-30 Thread peter green
Riku Voipio wrote: Qemu allows unaligned memory accesses, which do not always work on real hardware, especially on armv5 and other older arms. Do you know specifically how the debian buildds handle unaligned accesses? do they fix them up? do they generate a bus error? do they let them go

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: fpc build problems on some debian armel buildds

2011-06-30 Thread peter green
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Riku Voipio wrote: On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 03:33:36PM +0100, peter green wrote: The current FPC package builds fine in qemu for me. I will attempt to try on some real hardware too when I get a chance. Qemu allows unaligned memory accesses, which do not always work

Re: Debian on the Archos 5 internet tablet

2011-06-30 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
http://www.openaos.org/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_vtxuQENCM https://sites.google.com/site/archos5imt/multi-boot-easy-way the openaos.org guys appear to be up to version 8, so you stand a good chance that 7 is supported. personally i'd recommend you begin with getting multiboot

Re: Debian on the Archos 5 internet tablet

2011-06-30 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IKZOYPtxoUNR=1 can't f*g stand it when people call it jail-breaking. f*g morons. it's running the linux kernel: you have the f*g _right_ to run any software of your choice. gaah. anyway - that video describes how to jayuhhhl buhhhreiiiykh your

jailbreak as a term, and civility in general [was: Re: Debian on the Archos 5 internet tablet]

2011-06-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/30/2011 01:44 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: can't f*g stand it when people call it jail-breaking. f*g morons. it's running the linux kernel: you have the f*g _right_ to run any software of your choice. gaah. Some people are currently jailed or imprisoned in

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: fpc build problems on some debian armel buildds

2011-06-30 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, 2011/6/30 peter green plugw...@p10link.net: Do you know specifically how the debian buildds handle unaligned accesses? $ cat /proc/cpu/alignment User: 7325 System: 0 Skipped:0 Half: 0 Word: 0 DWord: 0 Multi: 0 User faults:

Re: fpc build problems on some debian armel buildds

2011-06-30 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/6/30 peter green plugw...@p10link.net: Could some arm users try building fpc and reporting back if they can reproduce the error and if so on what hardware? (note: you must build with -B or you will run into an unrelated failure). If it fails for you can you try running the

Re: fpc build problems on some debian armel buildds

2011-06-30 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, 2011/7/1 Hector Oron hector.o...@gmail.com: I'll upload this binaries at this time unless you state the contrary. Instead of this, I have given back (trigger a rebuild) the package, as it was only built once at the end of may. Second, if the error reproduces again try to add more

Re: fpc build problems on some debian armel buildds

2011-07-01 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, 2011/7/1 peter green plugw...@p10link.net: I'd say It makes sense to upload a manual build to the archive. We want to keep the version in the archive reasonablly current because if it gets too old that can cause difficulties of it's own upgrading to the latest version (building

Re: Debian installer for Buffalo LS Live (LS-CHL) and Mini (LS-WSGL)

2011-07-01 Thread Vanja Cvelbar
Hello! At last I managed to find some time to start testing the installation. Our son was born on the 4th May and we are still recovering from this little earthquake in our lives ;-) Anyway... I took out the LS-CHL from the drawer and successfully flashed the installer on it using an empty disk.

Re: libx86: FTBFS: thunk.c:44: error: impossible constraint in 'asm'

2011-07-01 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, 2011/7/2 Aníbal Monsalve Salazar ani...@debian.org: On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 05:54:08PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Source: libx86 Version: 1.1+ds1-5 Severity: important Does make sense to have this package built on armel? It looks like it is x86 specific and never built on armel before. Kind

Re: libx86: FTBFS: thunk.c:44: error: impossible constraint in 'asm'

2011-07-02 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
package libx86 severity 570676 important stop On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 06:13:45AM +0200, Hector Oron wrote: Hi, Hello Hector :) 2011/7/2 Aníbal Monsalve Salazar ani...@debian.org: On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 05:54:08PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Source: libx86 Version: 1.1+ds1-5 Severity: important

Re: ruby1.8 and ruby1.9.1 FTBFS on armel

2011-07-03 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 14/06/11 at 17:10 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Hi, ruby1.8 and ruby1.9.1 both FTBFS on armel on sid, due to a test failure. I did some tests on abel.debian.org on 2011-06-10, and the same packages are building fine on squeeze and wheezy. The same packages don't fail on sid on other

fsvs error on Sheevaplug

2011-07-06 Thread Hai Nguyen Dang
Hi All, Have you ever successfully run fsvs on Sheevaplug? I tried to compile fsvs 1.2.3 from source but I failed to commit the very first attempt (svn server is running fine, I can checkout or commit without any problem). Debian armel package is 1.1.17 so I tried with 1.2.3 from source.

Re: eSATA on TS-219P+ does not work

2011-07-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* rpane...@tiscali.it rpane...@tiscali.it [2011-06-29 20:32]: Yes, I'll be very happy to test it! Can you try the following kernel: http://people.debian.org/~tbm/tmp/kernel/linux-base_2.6.32-36~test1_all.deb

[TS-219P+] kernel upgrade problem

2011-07-07 Thread rpane...@tiscali.it
Hello, I'm running squeeze on my NAS. With the last apt-get upgrade I got this: --- snip --- Setting up linux-base (2.6.32-35)... Setting up linux-image-2.6.32-5-kirkwood (2.6.32-35)... Running depmod. Running update-initramfs. update-initramfs: Generating

Bug#633058: packages.debian.org: please add armhf

2011-07-07 Thread Sebastian Reichel
Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist Please add armhf to the list of packages.debian.org's architectures. -- Sebastian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: ARM toolchain for Android - Gcc ON android

2011-07-14 Thread Earlence Fernandes
I have to be clearer. Just the C compiler from GCC and its associated linker. The bare minimum to produce an executable. (without pthreads or anything of the sort) -Earlence On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Earlence Fernandes earlencefe...@gmail.com wrote: i.e. do you *absolutely have* to

Re: ARM toolchain for Android - Gcc ON android

2011-07-14 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Earlence Fernandes earlencefe...@gmail.com wrote: I have to be clearer. Just the C compiler from GCC and its associated linker. The bare minimum to produce an executable. (without pthreads or anything of the sort) it's not as simple as you imagine it to be.

Re: ARM toolchain for Android - Gcc ON android

2011-07-14 Thread Earlence Fernandes
Code performance will probably be slow. If you don't mind this it might be OK. Yes, I don't mind the performance. the code we want to execute is really small ~ 500 lines. I have posted in tinycc-devel, but if you have ideas, feel free to tell me :) Probably they meant that you can install a

Re: ARM toolchain for Android - Gcc ON android

2011-07-14 Thread Tim Small
On 14/07/11 13:02, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: Well, I found tinyCC Code performance will probably be slow. If you don't mind this it might be OK. which *seems* promising for the moment. In any case, can you tell me what was the build process for gcc on android used by debian

Experiences on using zram with ARM?

2011-07-14 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear people, As many ARM systems (and other embedded architectures) happen to be memory-starved, I thought about playing with zram (the new name of zramswap) on some of my systems, but I found out that not all platforms have zram enabled in the stock kernels in Debian. So, my question is: does

Re: Upgrading u-boot on Sheevaplug

2011-07-15 Thread DrEagle
Le 13/07/2011 22:52, Martin Michlmayr a écrit : * Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com [2011-06-29 14:46]: Is there any chance you could make your updated guide available before hand -- maybe on the debian-arm list? There may be folks on the list who could offer suggestions for cases you haven't

Bug#634100: ITP: tegra-linux -- Binary X11 and EGL drivers for NVIDIA Tegra chipset

2011-07-16 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org * Package name: tegra-linux Version : 12.0~alpha1 Upstream Author : NVIDIA Corporation * URL : http://developer.nvidia.com/tegra/ * License : NVIDIA Software License (non-free)

Bug#634260: ruby1.8: FTBFS on armel: not ok pack 2 -- ./sample/test.rb:1851

2011-07-18 Thread Philipp Kern
Package: ruby1.8 Severity: serious Version: 1.8.7.352-1 ruby1.8 FTBFSes in unstable and blocks the poppler transition through ruby-gnome2. compiling tk/tkutil make[2]: Entering directory `/build/buildd-ruby1.8_1.8.7.352-1-armel-k4EhK2/ruby1.8-1.8.7.352/ext/tk/tkutil' gcc -I. -I../../..

ARM: new cross-distro@ list

2011-07-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi folks, Many GNU/Linux distributions are doing some ARM porting; this tends to result in work duplication, and there doesn't seem to be a general purpose forum to bring ARM porters together. We're inviting developers of GNU/Linux distributions with an interest in ARM to join a new cross-distro

Re: Bug#634100: ITP: tegra-linux -- Binary X11 and EGL drivers for NVIDIA Tegra chipset

2011-07-18 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 01:55:49PM +0200, Heiko Stübner wrote: Am Samstag, 16. Juli 2011, 22:13:25 schrieb Julian Andres Klode: * Package name: tegra-linux Version : 12.0~alpha1 Upstream Author : NVIDIA Corporation * URL : http://developer.nvidia.com/tegra/ *

Re: Bug#634100: ITP: tegra-linux -- Binary X11 and EGL drivers for NVIDIA Tegra chipset

2011-07-18 Thread Heiko Stübner
Am Montag 18 Juli 2011, 18:04:00 schrieb Julian Andres Klode: On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 01:55:49PM +0200, Heiko Stübner wrote: Am Samstag, 16. Juli 2011, 22:13:25 schrieb Julian Andres Klode: * Package name: tegra-linux Version : 12.0~alpha1 Upstream Author : NVIDIA

Re: Experiences on using zram with ARM?

2011-07-18 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi. 2011/7/14 Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br: As many ARM systems (and other embedded architectures) happen to be memory-starved, I thought about playing with zram (the new name of zramswap) on some of my systems, but I found out that not all platforms have zram enabled in the stock kernels

Re: fpc build problems on some debian armel buildds

2011-07-18 Thread peter green
Hector Oron wrote: Hi, 2011/7/1 peter green plugw...@p10link.net: I'd say It makes sense to upload a manual build to the archive. We want to keep the version in the archive reasonablly current because if it gets too old that can cause difficulties of it's own upgrading to the latest

Re: Experiences on using zram with ARM?

2011-07-18 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
zram... there actually exists something called Z-Ram, it was bought by one of the major companies: it's actually 3D (stacked) ram and thus you get a significantly higher memory density. thus, the use of the name zram caused some confusion, that you had access to this quite rare type of RAM memory

Re: armhf installer status?

2011-07-19 Thread PALFFY Daniel
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Hector Oron wrote: Hi, 2011/7/13 PALFFY Daniel dpal...@rainstorm.org: I was interested if the efika images work for you (at least until installing the base system)? I'd give it another go and finishing merging branches into master as well as upload missing udebs. Could

Bug#634890: klibc-utils: sh.shared segmentation fault (armhf)

2011-07-20 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Package: klibc-utils Version: 1.5.23-2 Severity: important klibc's sh.shared currently just segfaults when started on a Toshiba AC100 (Tegra 2) running the armhf port. This breaks booting for users not having busybox installed which in turn cost me support time today. The other tools seem to

Re: Bug#634890: klibc-utils: sh.shared segmentation fault (armhf)

2011-07-20 Thread Loïc Minier
Might be related to the hardware bug described in: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/739374 which has a workaround in linux, bionic and possibly glibc; I wouldn't be surprized if klibc needed similar care. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

buildd.debian.org: Mipsel blacklist for package MLton

2011-07-21 Thread Wesley W. Terpstra
Package: buildd.debian.org Severity: normal Good evening! The package 'MLton' needs a minimum of 1GB physical memory to compile. Otherwise it will thrash in swap until killed. The mips buildd recently tried to build this package on phrixos which only has 512MB. Naturally, this failed [1]. Please

Re: armhf installer status?

2011-07-21 Thread PALFFY Daniel
Hi! All installer initrds were missing the debian-ports archive signing keys, and the error message was misleading. Before downloading the installer components, replacing /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg with /etc/apt/trusted.gpg from a machine that had the keyring installed

Re: armhf installer status?

2011-07-21 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Daniel, 2011/7/21 PALFFY Daniel dpal...@rainstorm.org: [...] Other than that, the usual manual install (kernel, lvm2, initramfs-tools, u-boot-tools manually, manual mkimage) everything worked fine. Great! :-) - Debian kernel: 3.0 won't support the mx51 in the same image as the

(unofficial) Debian packages for Toshiba AC100 (Tegra; armel and armhf)

2011-07-22 Thread Julian Andres Klode
I just finished the creation of a repository on people.debian.org that provides the packages needed to run Debian GNU/Linux on the Toshiba AC100 notebook device. Overview The repository is located at http://people.debian.org/~jak/ac100/ and has an 'unreleased' distribution with 'main'

Re: (unofficial) Debian packages for Toshiba AC100 (Tegra; armel and armhf)

2011-07-24 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org wrote: I just finished the creation of a repository on people.debian.org that provides the packages needed to run Debian GNU/Linux on the Toshiba AC100 notebook device. good call, julian! btw do you happen to know of anyone

Re: (unofficial) Debian packages for Toshiba AC100 (Tegra; armel and armhf)

2011-07-25 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org wrote: I just finished the creation of a repository on people.debian.org that provides the packages needed to run Debian GNU/Linux on the

Re: (unofficial) Debian packages for Toshiba AC100 (Tegra; armel and armhf)

2011-07-25 Thread Wookey
+++ Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [2011-07-25 10:13 +0100]: question: what is the best way to actually take into account, *without* requiring a total recompile of the linux kernel, *without* requiring a rebuild of any debian gnu/linux packages, variations in LCD screen size when the norm

dynamic LCD support for embedded systems

2011-07-25 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
[wookey: taking the liberty of cc'ing your message to lkml] [lkml: this came from an announcement of debian packages for toshiba ac100] On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: +++ Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [2011-07-25 10:13 +0100]:  question:  what is the best

Re: (unofficial) Debian packages for Toshiba AC100 (Tegra; armel and armhf)

2011-07-25 Thread Rtp
Wookey woo...@wookware.org writes: +++ Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [2011-07-25 10:13 +0100]: question: what is the best way to actually take into account, *without* requiring a total recompile of the linux kernel, *without* requiring a rebuild of any debian gnu/linux packages,

Re: dynamic LCD support for embedded systems

2011-07-25 Thread Alan Cox
ok, so. does anyone on LKML happen to know if there exists in the linux kernel a method for dynamic detection and booting off of absolutely any type of LCD panel? even if it's a predefined list of say 10 quotes supported quotes static LCD panels? It depends entirely on the platform, the

Re: dynamic LCD support for embedded systems

2011-07-25 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote:  ok, so.  does anyone on LKML happen to know if there exists in the linux kernel a method for dynamic detection and booting off of absolutely any type of LCD panel?  even if it's a predefined list of say 10 quotes

Re: dynamic LCD support for embedded systems

2011-07-25 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net wrote:  i have an idea.  devicetree LCD modules.  these could still be dynamically loaded, right?  i mean, it's a bit crazy, but you could have associated with a particular LCD panel a devicetree-compliant dynamic

Re: dynamic LCD support for embedded systems

2011-07-25 Thread Alan Cox
DVI monitor), and that EDID data just gets passed-through via the VGA IC. so it's all the same stuff... so what's the damn difference between a system with a VGA monitor and a system with the exact same LCD panel *from* that VGA monitor, ehn? :) ok, rhetorical question. I'm not convinced it

Re: dynamic LCD support for embedded systems

2011-07-25 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: DVI monitor), and that EDID data just gets passed-through via the VGA IC. so it's all the same stuff... so what's the damn difference between a system with a VGA monitor and a system with the exact same LCD panel *from*

Re: dynamic LCD support for embedded systems

2011-07-25 Thread Peter Korsgaard
Alan == Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk writes: DVI monitor), and that EDID data just gets passed-through via the VGA IC. so it's all the same stuff... so what's the damn difference between a system with a VGA monitor and a system with the exact same LCD panel *from* that VGA monitor,

Re: (unofficial) Debian packages for Toshiba AC100 (Tegra; armel and armhf)

2011-07-25 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: +++ Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [2011-07-25 10:13 +0100]:  question:  what is the best way to actually take into account, *without* requiring a total recompile of the linux kernel, *without* requiring a rebuild of any

Re: [Arm-netbook] (unofficial) Debian packages for Toshiba AC100 (Tegra; armel and armhf)

2011-07-25 Thread Gordan Bobic
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:13:35 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net wrote: On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org wrote: I just finished the creation of a repository on

Re: (unofficial) Debian packages for Toshiba AC100 (Tegra; armel and armhf)

2011-07-27 Thread Phil Endecott
Julian Andres Klode jak at debian.org writes: Installation guide (all on the device itself): (1) Bootstrap Debian on USB stick, SD, or eMMC (2) Install busybox and initramfs-tools (3) Set MODULES=dep in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf (4) Copy /boot/bootimg.cfg

Re: (unofficial) Debian packages for Toshiba AC100 (Tegra; armel and armhf)

2011-07-27 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Julian, Julian Andres Klode wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 02:22:56PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: Julian Andres Klode wrote: I just finished the creation of a repository on people.debian.org that provides the packages needed to run Debian GNU/Linux on the Toshiba AC100 notebook

Building linux-libc-dev for architecture bootstrap

2011-07-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
As requested, I just added a makefile target to linux-2.6 for building just linux-libc-dev. The command to use is: fakeroot make -f debian/rules.gen linux-libc-dev_$ARCH (substituting the dpkg architecture name for $ARCH). This should work for any architecture supported by the package,

Re: Building linux-libc-dev for architecture bootstrap

2011-07-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 16:46 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: As requested, I just added a makefile target to linux-2.6 for building just linux-libc-dev. The command to use is: fakeroot make -f debian/rules.gen linux-libc-dev_$ARCH or rather: fakeroot make -f debian/rules.gen

Re: Building linux-libc-dev for architecture bootstrap

2011-07-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 05:06:24PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 16:46 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: As requested, I just added a makefile target to linux-2.6 for building just linux-libc-dev. The command to use is: fakeroot make -f debian/rules.gen

Pbm installing debian on a sheevaplug

2011-07-31 Thread Olivier Grisel
Hi all, I am trying to install a recent debian on my somewhat oldish sheevaplug dev kit (MODEL: 003-SP1001). I think I bought it more than one year ago but never tried to use it before today. I am following the following howto:

Re: Pbm installing debian on a sheevaplug

2011-07-31 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Olivier Grisel olivier.gri...@ensta.org [2011-07-31 11:45]: However when I start the installer (today's daily build) I get the following unrecognized machine ID error: You have to run: setenv mainlineLinux yes setenv arcNumber 2097 saveenv reset Then it will work. -- Martin Michlmayr

Re: Pbm installing debian on a sheevaplug

2011-07-31 Thread Olivier Grisel
2011/7/31 Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com: * Olivier Grisel olivier.gri...@ensta.org [2011-07-31 11:45]: However when I start the installer (today's daily build) I get the following unrecognized machine ID error: You have to run: setenv mainlineLinux yes setenv arcNumber 2097 saveenv

Re: Pbm installing debian on a sheevaplug

2011-07-31 Thread DrEagle
Le 31/07/2011 12:05, Olivier Grisel a écrit : 2011/7/31 Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com: * Olivier Grisel olivier.gri...@ensta.org [2011-07-31 11:45]: However when I start the installer (today's daily build) I get the following unrecognized machine ID error: You have to run: setenv

Re: Debian installer for Buffalo LS Live (LS-CHL) and Mini (LS-WSGL)

2011-07-31 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi Martin, First, sorry for /very/ long delay on testing this image, and thank you for persisting on supporting such devices. Le mercredi 11 mai 2011 à 10:08 +0200, Martin Michlmayr a écrit : This is an update regarding Debian support for the Linkstation Live (LS-CHL) and the Linkstation Mini

Re: Debian installer for Buffalo LS Live (LS-CHL) and Mini (LS-WSGL)

2011-08-01 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi again, Le dimanche 31 juillet 2011 à 22:54 +0200, Benjamin Cama a écrit : Then, there is the fact that I'm still not able to create a RAID1 array for /boot that could mimic the behavior of the original /dev/md0, that is, that one partition (/dev/sda1) or the other (/dev/sdb1) can be

armhf: linux-2.6 does not build

2011-08-03 Thread Sebastian Reichel
Hi Hector, Can you please check the build of linux-2.6 on armhf [0]? It got marked as not for us for some reason :( [0] http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/package.php?p=linux-2.6 -- Sebastian signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: armhf: linux-2.6 does not build

2011-08-03 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 3 August 2011 23:03, Sebastian Reichel s...@debian.org wrote: Hi Hector, Can you please check the build of linux-2.6 on armhf [0]? It got marked as not for us for some reason :( [0] http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/package.php?p=linux-2.6 -- Sebastian Hi, I have disabled the

Re: armhf: linux-2.6 does not build

2011-08-03 Thread Sebastian Reichel
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 01:36:20AM +0300, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: On 3 August 2011 23:03, Sebastian Reichel s...@debian.org wrote: Hi Hector, Can you please check the build of linux-2.6 on armhf [0]? It got marked as not for us for some reason :( [0]

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