Re: Bug#1040901: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages

2023-09-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 02:03:35AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > The current way does not work. See all the bug reports about > uninstallable packages and what not with dkms. > > To build modules against version x, you'll need to install version x of > the headers, not x-1 or x+1. This currently

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: 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: ppc64el porter situation

2016-10-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 09:01:26PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Are they developing new powerpc products? AMCC? I have no idea. Maybe not. Freescale certainly seems to be. > Their latest products are also pretty ARM. That they are. > Are you talking about new e6500 SoCs, or are you only talki

Re: ppc64el porter situation

2016-10-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:18:39PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Freescala/NXP is not even on the OpenPOWER member list - this is not the > old power.org Neither is AMCC as far as I can tell. Doesn't mean they aren't still doing powerpc. > For their network processors Freescala/NXP is moving away

Re: ppc64el porter situation

2016-10-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 03:54:43PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > I think Freescala/NXP might disagree. Not sure if the e6500 core could > ruin ppc64el or not, but they certainly make a lot of powerpc chips. That should have said 'run' not 'ruin'. That would ha

Re: ppc64el porter situation

2016-10-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 10:22:14PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo#Companies_supporting_the_project > > That's also an impressive list of companies, isn't it? > When the one company that mattered switched to a different platform, > the whole platform collapsed immed

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 04:11:32PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Well, we just did a full archive rebuild of "ppc64" to be able to > support ppc64 on the e5500 cores by disabling AltiVec, didn't we? Well it is getting there. -- Len Sorensen

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 08:35:02PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > Do they implement the ISA required by the existing Debian port? Yes. The only ones that don't are the Freescale 85xx and P10[12]x chips, which are powerpcspe due to using the e500 core. All the 83xx and 82xx chips which are still

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 09:04:12AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > The debian-powerpc@l.d.o mailing list is active so I would say it > still has some users. I have been using partch.d.o for doing some work > on PowerPC. I posted a summary of work people have been doing on this > port lately: > >

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:36:24AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > There's a few projects that have abandoned claiming to support > anything below ARMv7. The one that comes to mind most readily is > libv8, but there have been others. I don't see libv8 on powerpc either. Don't think it has ever bee

Bug#782712: pre-upload unblock request: systemd/215-17 for RC bug #751707

2015-04-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:05:17PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Martin Pitt (2015-04-16): > > Hello Cyril, > > > > Cyril Brulebois [2015-04-16 19:40 +0200]: > > > Anyway, asking for home encryption indeed leads to swap encryption, > > > through a ecryptfs-setup-swap call, which in turn trigger

Re: Debian/ppc64el feasiability to become an official architecture

2014-07-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:29:19PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > I'm not sure what your point is. > > Maybe “crazy how ppc64 people got interested in getting their packages > built as opposed to getting debian.org ports page updated”? Anyway, if > you want to know about the port, see the wiki[1]

Re: Debian/ppc64el feasiability to become an official architecture

2014-07-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 06:48:13PM +0100, peter green wrote: > Not in debian proper but it is on debian-ports.org and it appears to > be pretty healthy. Hmm, not listed under the official nor unofficial debian ports, while ppc64el is. https://www.debian.org/ports/ ppc64el listed, ppc64 is not.

Re: Debian/ppc64el feasiability to become an official architecture

2014-07-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:14:08AM +0100, peter green wrote: > Another question the ftpmasters will likely have is what is the > relationship between ppc64 and ppc64el. Is there hardware that will > run ppc64 but not ppc64el? is there hardware that will run ppc64el > but not ppc64? is there hardwar

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:19:24AM -0400, Federico Sologuren wrote: > i have a HP Visualize B2000 that i managed to install last night from iso > distribution that i found after a lot of looking. at this point only > terminal is working. will keep reading to get debian up and running. > > i would

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 05:03:32PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > Thanks for the pointer. AFAICT the particular mail was not sent to > debian-release@lists.d.o, which is why I missed it. Anyhow, I will be > sure to include you in the final tally. I sent it to the 4 architectures I was interested

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:38:29AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > Here is a little status update on the mails we have received so far. > First off, thanks to all the porters who have already replied! > > So far, the *no one* has stepped up to back the following architectures: > >hurd-i386 >

Re: armel qualification for Wheezy

2012-05-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 07:34:59AM +0100, Tixy wrote: > Magic? ;-) Something in the packaging of binfmt-support and/or > qemu-user-static? > > I was just following instructions I picked up on the web. I can assure > you the work because I had a disk crash a while back and did a system > re-install

Re: armel qualification for Wheezy

2012-05-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 07:12:25PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 12:22 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > How are you doing the build using qemu's cpu emulator? I remember last > > I played with it I had issues with shared libraries where the command > >

Re: armel qualification for Wheezy

2012-05-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:06:30AM -0400, wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 08:59:57AM +0100, Tixy wrote: > > Not that horrible. I just did a kernel build on my laptop in an ARM > > chroot and it took 19m43s, doing it as a cross-build took 1m14s. I > > haven't got my Pandaboard setup to do a compar

Re: armel qualification for Wheezy

2012-05-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 08:59:57AM +0100, Tixy wrote: > Not that horrible. I just did a kernel build on my laptop in an ARM > chroot and it took 19m43s, doing it as a cross-build took 1m14s. I > haven't got my Pandaboard setup to do a comparison, but I > suspect it wouldn't be much faster than my e

Re: armel qualification for Wheezy

2012-05-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 09:02:33PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > I may be being naive, but could an X86 PC be used with an ARM chroot and > qemu-arm-static to emulate ARM instructions? Or is qemu not stable > enough, or the emulated environment different enough that package > building would fail (e.g. throu

Re: powerpc qualification for Wheezy

2012-05-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:42:32PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > I am still a regular powerpc user, and I should have sufficient time to > assist with porting issues for the foreseeable future, which I haven't > done for the last couple of releases but will now be able to. So feel > free to put me d

Re: Planning for final lenny point release (5.0.10)

2012-03-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 06:31:06PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: > I reuploaded w/o that patch - that fix was POWER7 specific, and it > looks like POWER7 support wasn't supported in the lenny timeframe > anyway. POWER7 only really got added to the installer in 6.0.4 (not even 6.0) so, seems perfectly

Bug#606441: unblock: yaboot/1.3.13a-1squeeze1

2010-12-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:33:44PM -0500, Milan Kupcevic wrote: > Well, the whole situation you are describing actually motivated me to do > something about it. And I did what was possible to do in short period of > time. > > > > >> Any bugreport I could read? > > > > Well given I don't even kno

Bug#606441: unblock: yaboot/1.3.13a-1squeeze1

2010-12-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:42:49PM +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > Well, Gaudenz and Milan worked on fixing the reported RC bugs against > yaboot. And, I'd rather thank them for that. sid's version doesn't look > like fixing the critical problems experienced by our users. Besides, I > don't see any bu

Bug#606441: unblock: yaboot/1.3.13a-1squeeze1

2010-12-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:52:34PM +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 12/09/2010 10:27 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > > I sponsored an uploaded of yaboot to testing-proposed-updates with the > > following changes to fix RC bugs: > > > > yaboot (1.3.13a-1squeeze1) testing-proposed-updates; urgenc

Re: RFH: Multiarch capable toolchain as release goal

2008-04-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:03:54PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080415 20:34]: > > Description: The toolchain should be ready to handle libraries and > >include files in the multiarch locations. > > Bug-Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo

Re: Building shadow on arm

2006-10-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 07:10:42PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > The latest shadow upload fixes a RC bug (#394182) but, for some > strange (at least to me and Nicolas Fran?ois, the package > co-maintainer) reason, failed to build on arm. > > Is it possible for an arm porter to try to bring som

Re: arm release issues

2006-08-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 08:13:06PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > we (the release team) noticed that arm has had some autobuilding and porting > problems in the past few weeks. According to the most recent britney runs, > the current numbers of uncompiled binaries are these: > 110 mips > 116

Re: beta status

2005-11-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:04:22AM -0700, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > It is an AmigaOS binary, built from free source with free compilers. So we > just have to > include all the free AmigaOS software to be able to ship a precompiled > amiboot? As I said, > no problem with me, maybe we include

Re: ARM build of scalapack

2005-10-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 05:02:58PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Due to the way how buildd works, it sometimes happens that packages slip > through the cracks and get lost. If that happens, usually all you need > to do is contact the buildd admin. Have you tried that? (i.e., > [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: ARM build of scalapack

2005-10-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 10:00:16AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > That's odd, my mirror has the latest arm binary .debs for mpich and lam, > and they appear to have been there for quite a while... Maybe I have to check my sources.list then. That seems weird. I will try redoing my /etc/apt dire

Re: ARM build of scalapack

2005-10-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 03:44:10PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > You can browse the build logs on buildd.debian.org. I did. It says mpich was build (probably succesful) 2 months ago. It does not tell me why it still hasn't entered unstable 2 months later. That is what I was wondering about. Is

Re: ARM build of scalapack

2005-10-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:37:17PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Can someone please build scalapack for arm? I tried (took about 20 > hours on my netwinder), but am still bitten by bug 222536 -- which is > not reproducible, except on my box where it always happens. :-( > > Since I just built o