Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-06 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 02:45:37PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote: I have to think that this has something to do with the machine being a rp3440 (large memory and cache). I have never seen this on my c3750 with 32-bit UP kernel. Also, this was with a 64-bit UP kernel. If I remember

Re: hppa in danger of being ignored for testing migration and eventual removal

2009-04-29 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 09:56:12AM -0600, dann frazier wrote: Unpacking busybox-udeb (from udebs/busybox-udeb.udeb) ... dpkg: error processing udebs/cdebconf-newt-terminal.udeb (--unpack):  subprocess dpkg-split killed by signal (Segmentation fault) Errors were encountered while

Re: HPPA and lenny

2008-12-23 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:23:57AM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: Helge Deller schrieb am Dienstag, dem 23. Dezember 2008: Patch in parisc git tree:

Re: HPPA and lenny

2008-12-19 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 05:19:46PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: I know very little about hppa, but from what I read in this thread - which was surprisingly helpful so far - it's the kernel that makes stuff break on newer, faster hardware. And if we want to provide a stable and useful port to

Re: irqbalance update in etch?

2008-10-01 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 03:12:38PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: + * Non maintainer upload. + * irqbalance would segfault on startup when /proc/interrupts contains +an interrupt with a number of 256 or larger, since internally it +stored data in a fixed-length array. Newer versions

Re: HPPA kernel issues (was: please push ruby1.9 1.9.0.2-4 to testing)

2008-07-21 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 05:17:02PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 03:37:06PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Ruby 1.9 is still the development version of Ruby, but it will become the stable version in december. It's not

Re: hppa release status

2008-06-16 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 09:46:17PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: Hi, I've waited a while to weigh in on this. Anyway, I don't particularly much care for stable releases. I have no problems with HPPA being punted from lenny and existing only as sid, as long as people still take patches to fix

Re: Approval to upload gcc-defaults 1.70?

2008-04-20 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 08:23:42AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Grant Grundler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-04-19 19:08]: This is a good idea - switch to gcc-4.3 for everything but the kernel. I didnt think this would be possible but I'm not sure why I thought that. We use gcc-4.1 for the

Re: Approval to upload gcc-defaults 1.70?

2008-04-17 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:33:08AM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 02:48:09PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Grant Grundler writes: ... Has anyone built a kernel with this version of gcc-4.3 and tried it? Can I apt-get install -t sid gcc-4.3 on my hybrid system and get

Re: Bug#342545: qt-x11-free FTBFS

2006-08-23 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:39:04AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: The qt-x11-free package builds fine with a standard Debian setup. Building with prctl --unaligned=signal makes the bug reproducible. Right. The buildd is set up to deliver SIGBUS on unaligned accesses. This is configurable, and

Re: [parisc-linux] [Fwd: [patch/hppa] Floating point exception handling patch]

2006-01-16 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 11:22:12PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 07:38:36AM +0800, Randolph Chung wrote: This affects packages that use feholdexcept and fesetenv, such as uic from QT. It's not a very long list. I hacked the following short script to search a local

Re: [parisc-linux] [Fwd: [patch/hppa] Floating point exception handling patch]

2006-01-16 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:03:59AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: If the bug is in glibc, why would any of these packages need binNMUs? The only reason they would need rebuilt after a glibc bug fix would be if the glibc ABI changed in the process, and that would be Very Badtm. You are, of

Re: non-free firmware in the linux kernel

2006-01-10 Thread Kyle McMartin
3) an effort seems to be happening inside the upstream kernel to use the request_firmware infrastructure which allows to load firmware code from userland through an hotplug mechanism. There seem to be more and more drivers going this way, since there aare more in current git than