Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-10-09 Thread Florent Viard
oun...@lists.tizen.org] *On Behalf Of *Zhang, Qiang Z > *Sent:* Tuesday, September 17, 2013 5:59 PM > *To:* general@lists.tizen.org > *Subject:* [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : > dropping 32bit linux support > > ** ** > > Hi Developers, > &

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-26 Thread Zhang, Qiang Z
, which practice the spirit of open source well. Thanks Qiang From: general-boun...@lists.tizen.org [mailto:general-boun...@lists.tizen.org] On Behalf Of Zhang, Qiang Z Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 5:59 PM To: general@lists.tizen.org Subject: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-26 Thread Oytun Eren Sengul
Hi All, Dropping 32 bit support for realistic technical reasons or after Apple's 64 bit half engineering half marketing success. I think no need to talk more about why we need 64bit support for general OS environment. If you really care games and Open GL 3.0 support OK but other reasons just for

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-26 Thread Jian-feng Ding
Jan-Simon, I will create a new thread to talk about the details of qemu issue. Thanks for your help. thanks - jf.ding On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 04:11:10PM +0200, Jan-Simon Möller wrote: > Hi Jian-feng Ding, > > On Tuesday 24 September 2013 20:23:20 Jian-feng Ding wrote: > > Jan-Simon, > > > > Th

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-24 Thread Jan-Simon Möller
Hi Jian-feng Ding, On Tuesday 24 September 2013 20:23:20 Jian-feng Ding wrote: > Jan-Simon, > > Thank you for your attention. The story of qemu is: > > 1. In the building, both OBS and gbs, the scripts will use qemu-arm-static > to run arm binary inside build env chroot I know the magic, the OB

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-24 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 20:23:20 +0800 Jian-feng Ding said: do you have details on the memory issues in qemu. i vaguely remember issues a while back to do with the way libraries get mmaped on x86 vs arm and that there are maybe some fixed mappings that conflict or was it to do with address space rand

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-24 Thread Jian-feng Ding
Jan-Simon, Thank you for your attention. The story of qemu is: 1. In the building, both OBS and gbs, the scripts will use qemu-arm-static to run arm binary inside build env chroot 2. In the ideal settings, we'd like to run 64bit qemu-arm-statis in 64bit host system, and the same for 32bit. AND w

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-23 Thread The Rasterman
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:21:08 +0300 Artem Bityutskiy said: > Carsten, > > I do agree with many of your points. But I really would like to refrain > from diverging from the main point. Let me try to summarize like this. > > The team briefly explained why they would like to drop 32-bit support: >

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-23 Thread The Rasterman
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:57:33 +0200 Jan-Simon Möller said: > > > > 64bit os's come with a major cost in memory footprint for pointers... it's > > quite measurable. and that doesn't change the fact that: > > > > 1. arm is STILL 32bit and will be for a long time still. if tizen can't be > > built

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-23 Thread The Rasterman
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 08:21:21 -0700 Thiago Macieira said: > On segunda-feira, 23 de setembro de 2013 08:53:47, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > imagine if all the engineers and executives etc. at bmw drove fords because > > "bmw's can't manage to get us to the office without breaking down". > > > > we

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-23 Thread Mats Wichmann
On 09/23/2013 06:32 PM, Dale Anderson wrote: > Theres also the fact 'mobile' is relative, given the current progress of > phone/tablet hardware the need for a desktop is getting rapidly smaller > even for a development env, given 64bit ARM is only just reaching consumer > products and the likely ho

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-23 Thread Dale Anderson
Theres also the fact 'mobile' is relative, given the current progress of phone/tablet hardware the need for a desktop is getting rapidly smaller even for a development env, given 64bit ARM is only just reaching consumer products and the likely hood the mobile OS itself will be the development envir

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-23 Thread Thiago Macieira
On segunda-feira, 23 de setembro de 2013 08:30:24, Clark, Joel wrote: > Tizen is a general purpose OS. It is supposed to work on a wide variety of > platforms like PC, TV, Automotive, tablet, phone, printer, camera. It has > everything needed to be a general purpose OS. We do have developers who

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-23 Thread Clark, Joel
General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support On segunda-feira, 23 de setembro de 2013 08:53:47, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > imagine if all the engineers and executives etc. at bmw drove fords > because "bmw's can't manage to get us to the of

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-23 Thread Thiago Macieira
On segunda-feira, 23 de setembro de 2013 08:53:47, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > imagine if all the engineers and executives etc. at bmw drove fords because > "bmw's can't manage to get us to the office without breaking down". > > we're not building specialized mining equipment. that won't get us to t

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-23 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 15:47 +0200, Jan-Simon Möller wrote: > On Monday 23 September 2013 13:52:56 Jian-feng Ding wrote: > > > if the problem is qemu on 32bit x86 emulating arm... mayhaps we should > > > talk > > > about that issue itself? i remember there being memory mapping > > > conflicts/issues

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-23 Thread Jan-Simon Möller
> > 64bit os's come with a major cost in memory footprint for pointers... it's > quite measurable. and that doesn't change the fact that: > > 1. arm is STILL 32bit and will be for a long time still. if tizen can't be > built ON an arm platform (which is 32bit) then it can't self-host on arm... >

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-23 Thread Jan-Simon Möller
On Monday 23 September 2013 13:52:56 Jian-feng Ding wrote: > > if the problem is qemu on 32bit x86 emulating arm... mayhaps we should > > talk > > about that issue itself? i remember there being memory mapping > > conflicts/issues in doing misc binary emul, but i don't remember the > > details anym

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-23 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
Carsten, I do agree with many of your points. But I really would like to refrain from diverging from the main point. Let me try to summarize like this. The team briefly explained why they would like to drop 32-bit support: a) They suspect there are no/very few users, and the survey is about lear

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-23 Thread The Rasterman
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:46:48 +0300 Artem Bityutskiy said: > On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 19:08 +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:42:34 +0300 Artem Bityutskiy > > said: > > > > > Hi JF, > > > > > > there is a lot of confusion in this thread about what are you going to > > > do

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-23 Thread Clark, Joel
n.org [mailto:general-boun...@lists.tizen.org] On Behalf Of Jian-feng Ding Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 3:18 AM To: Artem Bityutskiy; Zhang, Qiang Z Cc: general@lists.tizen.org Subject: Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support Artem, Thanks for

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-23 Thread Clark, Joel
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 2:33 AM To: Carsten Haitzler Cc: general@lists.tizen.org Subject: Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support Carsten, All the embarrassings you are talking about just does not exist :) Current Tizen pkg build is self

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-23 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 19:08 +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:42:34 +0300 Artem Bityutskiy > said: > > > Hi JF, > > > > there is a lot of confusion in this thread about what are you going to > > do and why. > > > > And frankly, the announcement is guilty in that. You did n

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-23 Thread Clark, Joel
Why only PC? -Original Message- From: Ding, Jian-feng Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 10:55 PM To: Clark, Joel Cc: Kok, Auke-jan H; general@lists.tizen.org Subject: Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support Joel, Whenever we have an

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-23 Thread Clark, Joel
n.org] On Behalf Of Leon Anavi Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 10:28 PM To: general@lists.tizen.org Subject: Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support Hi Daniel, Carsten, All, On 2013-09-23 03:46, Daniel Juyung Seo wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-23 Thread Jian-feng Ding
Artem, Thanks for your feedback and clarification. We will update the survey questions to avoid confusions. thanks - jf.ding On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:42:34PM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > Hi JF, > > there is a lot of confusion in this thread about what are you going to > do and why. > > A

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-23 Thread The Rasterman
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:42:34 +0300 Artem Bityutskiy said: > Hi JF, > > there is a lot of confusion in this thread about what are you going to > do and why. > > And frankly, the announcement is guilty in that. You did not carefully > and nicely explain what exactly you do, and why exactly, and w

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-23 Thread The Rasterman
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:33:19 +0800 Jian-feng Ding said: > Carsten, > > All the embarrassings you are talking about just does not exist :) > > Current Tizen pkg build is self-hosted, both ARM and IA, both 32bit and > 64bit. > > Current problem we are talking about is the developers' working dis

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-23 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
Hi JF, there is a lot of confusion in this thread about what are you going to do and why. And frankly, the announcement is guilty in that. You did not carefully and nicely explain what exactly you do, and why exactly, and which users would be affected and how exactly. I suggest you guys to come

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-23 Thread Jian-feng Ding
Carsten, All the embarrassings you are talking about just does not exist :) Current Tizen pkg build is self-hosted, both ARM and IA, both 32bit and 64bit. Current problem we are talking about is the developers' working distro, not the Tizen runtime:) thanks - jf.ding On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 0

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-23 Thread The Rasterman
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 08:28:06 +0300 Leon Anavi said: > Hi Daniel, Carsten, All, > > On 2013-09-23 03:46, Daniel Juyung Seo wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Carsten Haitzler > >> imagine if all the engineers and executives etc. at bmw drove fords > >> because > >> "bmw's can't manage to

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-22 Thread Jian-feng Ding
s hard requirement that > > > should be tested regularly. > > > > > > Regards > > > Joel > > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: general-boun...@lists.tizen.org > > > [mailto:general-boun...@lists.tizen.org] On Beha

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-22 Thread Jian-feng Ding
+1 - jf.ding On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 08:28:06AM +0300, Leon Anavi wrote: > Hi Daniel, Carsten, All, > > On 2013-09-23 03:46, Daniel Juyung Seo wrote: > >On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Carsten Haitzler > >>imagine if all the engineers and executives etc. at bmw drove fords > >>because > >>"bmw'

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-22 Thread Jian-feng Ding
eneral-boun...@lists.tizen.org > > [mailto:general-boun...@lists.tizen.org] On Behalf Of Jian-feng Ding Sent: > > Sunday, September 22, 2013 2:39 AM To: Kok, Auke-jan H > > Cc: general@lists.tizen.org > > Subject: Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools surve

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-22 Thread Jian-feng Ding
feng Ding > Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 2:39 AM > To: Kok, Auke-jan H > Cc: general@lists.tizen.org > Subject: Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : > dropping 32bit linux support > > Hi, Auke > > The major reason of 32bit-linux-platform t

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-22 Thread Jian-feng Ding
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 11:24:06PM +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 17:38:53 +0800 Jian-feng Ding > said: > > dropping 32bit support would be very short-sighted. reasons: > > 1. arm support (build on arm NOT x86, x86 qemu). > 2. x32 (32bit pointers but with 64bit mode ops las

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-22 Thread Leon Anavi
Hi Daniel, Carsten, All, On 2013-09-23 03:46, Daniel Juyung Seo wrote: On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Carsten Haitzler imagine if all the engineers and executives etc. at bmw drove fords because "bmw's can't manage to get us to the office without breaking down". Awesome analogy. I am also

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-22 Thread Daniel Juyung Seo
g Ding > Sent: > > Sunday, September 22, 2013 2:39 AM To: Kok, Auke-jan H > > Cc: general@lists.tizen.org > > Subject: Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : > > dropping 32bit linux support > > > > Hi, Auke > > > > The major reaso

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-22 Thread The Rasterman
3 2:39 AM To: Kok, Auke-jan H > Cc: general@lists.tizen.org > Subject: Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : > dropping 32bit linux support > > Hi, Auke > > The major reason of 32bit-linux-platform tools support dropping plan is the > qemu issue:

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-22 Thread Clark, Joel
] On Behalf Of Jian-feng Ding Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 2:39 AM To: Kok, Auke-jan H Cc: general@lists.tizen.org Subject: Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support Hi, Auke The major reason of 32bit-linux-platform tools support dropping plan

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-22 Thread The Rasterman
On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 17:38:53 +0800 Jian-feng Ding said: dropping 32bit support would be very short-sighted. reasons: 1. arm support (build on arm NOT x86, x86 qemu). 2. x32 (32bit pointers but with 64bit mode ops last i checked). if the problem is qemu on 32bit x86 emulating arm... mayhaps we s

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-22 Thread Jian-feng Ding
Hi, Auke The major reason of 32bit-linux-platform tools support dropping plan is the qemu issue: we still have no stable 32bit qemu-static executable for current Tizen, which is very important for the local build and image creation in 32bit development systems. And the future 64bit support of Tiz

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-18 Thread Kok, Auke-jan H
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Tomasz Olszak wrote: > > I'm opposed to this. >> >> >> 64bit support in Tizen is not yet mainstream at all, as a matter of >> fact it's barely been implemented in 3.0, and no major release that >> developers can use yet has happened. >> >> Can we maintain 32bit co

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-18 Thread Tomasz Olszak
I'm opposed to this. > > 64bit support in Tizen is not yet mainstream at all, as a matter of > fact it's barely been implemented in 3.0, and no major release that > developers can use yet has happened. > > Can we maintain 32bit code until most developers have had a major > release on 64bit? It wil

Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-18 Thread Kok, Auke-jan H
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Zhang, Qiang Z wrote: > Hi Developers, > > This is a simple survey about how many developers still want to use 32bit > Linux for development. > > Currently, platform development tools(gbs/mic) support 32bit/64bit on the > following 9 distributions: > > * Ubuntu 13.

[Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support

2013-09-17 Thread Zhang, Qiang Z
Hi Developers, This is a simple survey about how many developers still want to use 32bit Linux for development. Currently, platform development tools(gbs/mic) support 32bit/64bit on the following 9 distributions: * Ubuntu 13.04 * Ubuntu 12.10 * Ubuntu 12.04 * openSUSE 12.3 * openSUSE 12.2 * op