Re: Arm ports build machines (was Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns)

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
spoke again to TL and asked if pine64 would be willing to look at sponsorship witn rockpro64 boards (the ones that take 4x PCIe): if someone from debian were to contact him direct he would happily consider it. i then asked him if i could cc him into this discussion and he said he was way *way* too

Re: Arm ports build machines (was Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns)

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 8:13 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 6:59 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > >>> also worth noting, they're working on a 2U rackmount server which >>> will have i think something insane like 48 Rock64Pro boards in one >>> full-length case. >

Re: Arm ports build machines (was Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns)

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 8:31 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton: > >> that is not a surprise to hear: the massive thrashing caused by the >> linker phase not being possible to be RAM-resident wil

Re: Arm ports build machines (was Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns)

2018-06-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton: > that is not a surprise to hear: the massive thrashing caused by the > linker phase not being possible to be RAM-resident will be absolutely > hammering the drives beyond reasonable wear-and-tear limits. which is > why i'm recommending people try "-Wl,--no-keep-m

Re: Arm ports build machines (was Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns)

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 6:59 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: >> also worth noting, they're working on a 2U rackmount server which >> will have i think something insane like 48 Rock64Pro boards in one >> full-length case. > None of this addresses the basic DSA requirement of remote management. > T

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-06-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 06:29:48PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Are you sure you're not interchanging A8 and A9, cfr. Linux kernel commit > e388b80288aade31 ("ARM: spectre-v2: add Cortex A8 and A15 validation of the > IBE bit")? Yes. That is the main reason the A9 is faster than the A8 at t

Re: Arm ports build machines (was Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns)

2018-06-29 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 06:05:55PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > apologies for repeating it again: this is why i'm recommending people > try "-Wl,--no-keep-memory" on the linker phase as if it works as > intended it will almost certainly drastically reduce memory usage to > the poin

Re: Arm ports build machines (was Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns)

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 5:21 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>2G is also way too little memory these days for a new buildd. > > Nod - lots of packages are just too big for that now. apologies for repeating it again: this is why i'm recommending people try "-Wl,--no-keep-memory" on the linker phase a

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-06-29 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi Lennart, debian-ports -> debian-arm On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 5:00 PM Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 10:20:50AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > in addition, arm64 is usually speculative OoO (Cavium ThunderX V1 > > being a notable exception) which means it's vu

Arm ports build machines (was Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns)

2018-06-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 11:23:25AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: >On 06/29/2018 09:16 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: >>> >>> [DSA Sprint report]: >>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2018/02/msg4.html >> >> In this report Julien Cristau wrote: >> >>> In short, the hardware (development boa

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concernsj

2018-06-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Jun 29, 2018, at 9:50 AM, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 11:04:26PM +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: >> I see armel is already not a candidate for buster [0]. >> So it seems we can discuss armhf, but no armel at all. >> I don't agree with this idea. >> And I think we sh

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concernsj

2018-06-29 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 11:04:26PM +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: > I see armel is already not a candidate for buster [0]. > So it seems we can discuss armhf, but no armel at all. > I don't agree with this idea. > And I think we should treat armel and armhf equally. Please review the mail which origi

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-06-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 10:20:50AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > in addition, arm64 is usually speculative OoO (Cavium ThunderX V1 > being a notable exception) which means it's vulnerable to spectre and > meltdown attacks, whereas 32-bit ARM is exclusively in-order. if you > want t

Re: armel/armhf arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concernsj

2018-06-29 Thread Jeffrey Townsend
Open Network Linux developed for the Open Compute Project has a vested interest in maintaining support for armel at least. I would be interested in sponsoring or donating rack mountable switches using armel processors. On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 3:04 AM, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > Quoting Uwe Klein

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concernsj

2018-06-29 Thread Roger Shimizu
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 10:04 PM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello Julien, > > On 06/29/2018 11:23 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: >>> If the concerns are mostly about the hardware not being rackable, there >>> is a rackable NAS by Netgear: >>> >>> >>> https://www.netgear.com/business/products/stor

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concernsj

2018-06-29 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
Hello Julien, On 06/29/2018 11:23 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: >> If the concerns are mostly about the hardware not being rackable, there >> is a rackable NAS by Netgear: >> >> >> https://www.netgear.com/business/products/storage/readynas/RN2120.aspx#tab-techspecs >> >> with an armhf cpu. Not s

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > Everyone, please avoid followups to debian-po...@lists.debian.org. > Unless something is relevant to *all* architectures (hint: discussion of > riscv or arm issues don't qualify), keep replies to the appropriate > port-specific mailing lis

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-06-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On 06/27/2018 10:03 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: > Hi, > > > As part of the interim architecture qualification for buster, we request > that DSA, the security team and the toolchain maintainers review and > update their list of known concerns for buster release architectures. > Everyone, please avoi

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concernsj

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:06 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 06/29/2018 10:41 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 8:16 AM, Uwe Kleine-König >> wrote: >> In short, the hardware (development boards) we're currently using to build armel and armhf

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >> i don't know: i'm an outsider who doesn't have the information in >> short-term memory, which is why i cc'd the debian-riscv team as they >> have current facts and knowledge foremost in their minds. which is >> why i included them. > >

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-06-29 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2018-06-29 at 11:44 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: [...] > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 10:35 AM, Adam D. Barratt > wrote: > > > >  what is the reason why that package is not moving forward? > > > > I assume you're referring to the dpkg upload that's in proposed- > > updates > > w

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concernsj

2018-06-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 06/29/2018 10:41 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 8:16 AM, Uwe Kleine-König > wrote: > >>> In short, the hardware (development boards) we're currently using to >>> build armel and armhf packages aren't up to our standards, and we >>> really, really want them t

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 10:35 AM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >> what is the reason why that package is not moving forward? > > I assume you're referring to the dpkg upload that's in proposed-updates > waiting for the point

armel/armhf arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concernsj

2018-06-29 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting Uwe Kleine-König : If the concerns are mostly about the hardware not being rackable, there is a rackable NAS by Netgear: https://www.netgear.com/business/products/storage/readynas/RN2120.aspx#tab-techspecs This seems to be out of stock and discontinued, unfortunately. Anyway,

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-06-29 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2018-06-29 at 10:20 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: [...] >  debian-riscv has been repeatedly asking for a single zero-impact > line > to be included in *one* file in *one* dpkg-related package which > would > allow riscv to stop being a NMU architecture and become part of > debi

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concernsj

2018-06-29 Thread Julien Cristau
[s/debian-ports/debian-arm/] On 06/29/2018 09:16 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 08:03:00PM +, Niels Thykier wrote: >> armel/armhf: >> >> >> * Undesirable to keep the hardware running beyond 2020. armhf VM >>support uncertain. (DSA) >>-

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 9:03 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: > armel/armhf: > > > * Undesirable to keep the hardware running beyond 2020. armhf VM >support uncertain. (DSA) >- Source: [DSA Sprint report] [other affected 32-bit architectures removed but still relevant] ... i'm

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concernsj

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 8:16 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 08:03:00PM +, Niels Thykier wrote: >> armel/armhf: >> >> >> * Undesirable to keep the hardware running beyond 2020. armhf VM >>support uncertain. (DSA) >>- Source: [DSA Sprint

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concernsj

2018-06-29 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
Hello, On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 08:03:00PM +, Niels Thykier wrote: > armel/armhf: > > > * Undesirable to keep the hardware running beyond 2020. armhf VM >support uncertain. (DSA) >- Source: [DSA Sprint report] > > [DSA Sprint report]: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-p