Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Paul Wise, le Wed 08 May 2013 12:06:01 +0800, a écrit : On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: We haven't worked on microcode upload, since we don't necessarily target non-freeness... So, someday the Hurd will need support for microcode upload. Well, I haven't said we

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-08 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 01:07:42AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Neil McGovern, le Tue 07 May 2013 11:14:01 +0100, a écrit : On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 10:27:54PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: We have not worked too much on the hardware support in the past months, so it is basically network

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Neil McGovern, le Wed 08 May 2013 11:35:52 +0100, a écrit : About disk support, I happen to have right now a few days of holiday with no RL plans (at last!), so I'll work on the SATA driver. Having it working within a month should just happen. But not tested - how about USB - did that

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-08 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 04:33:03PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Neil McGovern, le Wed 08 May 2013 11:35:52 +0100, a écrit : But not tested - how about USB - did that ever get sorted? We have not worked on it. How about things like wireless drivers, raid controllers, suspend/resume,

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Neil McGovern, le Wed 08 May 2013 16:07:26 +0100, a écrit : No, just something that works for the majority of our users. I'm fairly sure things like SATA and USB is considered essential. SATA, yes. USB, less. d) VMWare/VBox etc. This already works. Just tried it with vbox

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-08 Thread Peter Andersson
Sorry to clutter the mailing list. But as a long time lurker at the mailing list I would just like to thank the Hurd team for all your efforts! @Samuel, I totally agree with you on your points. I have been happily running Hurd on my (reasonably new) core 2 computer for a year. It wasn't

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org (08/05/2013): I'm afraid I'll still not be able to explain people when they ask me why hurd-i386 is not in testing, except vague reasons. For the record, and speaking only for myself, I'd love to see a proper architecture qualification process, rather than

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, le Wed 08 May 2013 17:52:13 +0200, a écrit : Now, I think everyone having actually worked on the release would enjoy (and probably deserve) a few days/weeks of rest before resuming release duties, which include: I was also thinking the same when I saw the issue popping up

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-08 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 08/05/13 16:52, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org (08/05/2013): I'm afraid I'll still not be able to explain people when they ask me why hurd-i386 is not in testing, except vague reasons. For the record, and speaking only for myself, I'd love to see a proper

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steven Chamberlain, le Wed 08 May 2013 18:36:33 +0100, a écrit : My idea would be to look at the (I estimate) 90+ packages that are out-of-date in sid on GNU/Hurd but not other arches, and were not already removed by #704477. This includes some important ones like gcc-4.8, gdb. gcc-4.8 was

Re: Imminent Debian GNU/Hurd release

2013-05-08 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
On 02.05.2013 01:56, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, So, as you may have read, Debian 7.0 is to be released this week-end. The plan was to make our own Debian-unofficial, but GNU/Hurd-official release. When would that one be released? Philipp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Imminent Debian GNU/Hurd release

2013-05-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philipp Klaus Krause, le Wed 08 May 2013 20:12:42 +0200, a écrit : On 02.05.2013 01:56, Samuel Thibault wrote: So, as you may have read, Debian 7.0 is to be released this week-end. The plan was to make our own Debian-unofficial, but GNU/Hurd-official release. When would that one be

Re: Imminent Debian GNU/Hurd release

2013-05-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Wed 08 May 2013 20:31:29 +0200, a écrit : Philipp Klaus Krause, le Wed 08 May 2013 20:12:42 +0200, a écrit : On 02.05.2013 01:56, Samuel Thibault wrote: So, as you may have read, Debian 7.0 is to be released this week-end. The plan was to make our own

Re: Imminent Debian GNU/Hurd release

2013-05-08 Thread Richard Braun
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 08:31:29PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/README.txt Please review and send fixes. People may still use an old version of kvm where writeback isn't the default, and the performance increase is important enough to directly provide