Re: StrongARM tactics

2005-12-06 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:00:40PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > For ree: > How portable is scaning /dev/mem between position 0xc and 0xf in > 512 byte blocks for some magic number as a concept? This will kernel oops on ARM platforms that don't have RAM starting at physical address zero

Re: architecture-specific release criteria - requalification needed

2005-09-25 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 09:11:55AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > We are keeping patches[7] for the armeb port separate, and are ready to > > contribute them now, or at any future time that is more appropriate. > > Another chicken-and-egg - are package maintainers expected to accept > > patch

Re: [OT] Names

2005-09-22 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 10:15:32AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > -- Signed, the debian-armeb porting team. > > We've always had a policy of asking people to use real names on this > list. Usually we invoke this for people using pseudonyms, but I think > it's appropriate for role addresses,

Re: Announcing an intention to produce an armeb port of Debian

2005-09-21 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 02:06:24PM +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > It's not so unusual anymore since intel introduced the IXP series > of chips which come with mostly BE oriented reference designs. The nslu2 itself comes with an ixp4xx CPU, but the armeb port is also used on a number of i