Re: Plan for changing the binary toolchain to 4.7 and hardfloat

2012-03-19 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:27:17 + Mans Rullgard wrote: > FWIW, Gentoo has been using arm-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi for hardfloat > configurations ever since gcc started supporting it. That's of course > not a triplet, strictly speaking. Also fwiw, I have been assured from Gentoo developers that t

Re: "struct user" conflicts on arm

2011-12-17 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 17 December 2011 09:17, peter green wrote: > While we are talking about modifying sys/ucontext.h David Given > raised another issue with that header (for those reading on the linaro list > his > post can be found at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2011/12/msg00048.html) > David Given>This

Android ICS for EfikaMX Smarttop alpha image, iMX53 developer program started

2011-12-06 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
iMX53 Efika. Thanks Konstantinos Margaritis hats: Genesi, Linaro, Debian. ___ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev

Re: request/sugestion to work together to get hardfp/OSS ARM GPU drivers and/or to get documentation

2011-10-22 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 22 October 2011 16:17, Joop Boonen wrote: > Hi all, > > Most of the (ARM) distros are currently working on or in the transition to > hardfp, but until now most GPU's in de ARM Cortex SOCs don't have any > hardfp drivers yet. > > To be able to have a ARM hardfp compiled X Window desktop system/n

Re: What would you like to cross-compile?

2011-08-30 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 29 August 2011 17:22, Riku Voipio wrote: > Hi, > > We (Developer Platform) are looking into making Ubuntu/Debian more > cross-compile friendly. In order to > decide what to focus on on first, I'd like to ask from input from you > - what would you like to be able to > cross-compile for the Linar

Re: Optimized kernel memcpy/memset

2011-05-06 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 6 May 2011 19:57, David Gilbert wrote: > 2011/5/6 Christian Robottom Reis : > I don't think there are that many things that are vastly useful for the > kernel, > but here is a summary (I intend to write a full report at some point but > am still fighting SPEC for some benchmark stats and some

Re: Optimized kernel memcpy/memset

2011-05-05 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 5 May 2011 17:57, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Technically it *can*, but you'll then have to be responsible for > dealing with all the extra register save/restores for context > switches. Normal wisdom is that it's just not worth that cost unless > you're doing an extended amount of such code (e.g.

Re: Optimized kernel memcpy/memset

2011-05-05 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 5 May 2011 17:21, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > Hey there, > >    I was asked today in the board meeting about the use of NEON > routines in the kernel; I said we had looked into this but hadn't done > it because a) it wasn't conclusively better and b) if better, it would > need to be done c

armhf progress: 2.6.38 kernel for the efikasb/mx, SD card bootable image

2011-04-01 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Hi all, I tried to upload the kernel debs to ftp.debian-ports.org, but I'm getting some upload errors, so I uploaded them to http://www.freevec.org/packages/ the armhf sd card image is finally uploaded here: http://www.freevec.org/packages/efikamx-armhf.img.xz it is very recent, includes pbuil

Re: Libraries with NEON backends

2011-03-29 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 30 March 2011 01:45, Steve Langasek wrote: > I don't think this is a correct interpretation of the license.  You don't > have to change a package name to "plainly mark" the source as modified; > debian/copyright, changelogs, notices in the source files accomplish this. > This is done for packag

Re: Libraries with NEON backends

2011-03-29 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 29 March 2011 10:53, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Konstantinos, > There must be some misunderstanding here; no license that prohibited > distribution of binaries built from modified source would be considered a > Free Software license, and zlib is certainly considered free. :) Yes, you're right

Re: Libraries with NEON backends

2011-03-29 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 28 March 2011 07:52, Jim Huang wrote: > - zlib >  Using SIMD, we can optimize 'copy / repeat an existing sequence' in > LZ-style encoding. >  The reference Intel SSE2 optimization patch is attached in this mail. Regarding zlib in particular, in 2005 I had done an altivec port of this, apart fr

Call for Participation: Genesi Sprint at San Antonio, TX, March 30-April 3

2011-01-27 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
(repost from debian-arm list) Hi everyone, As a follow-up event to http://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2011/EmdebianSprint Genesi is also organizing an event in San Antonio. Details about the event can be found here: http://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2011/GenesiSprintSanAntonio We would like all interes

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 22 December 2010 21:22, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > Having accommodations in the kernel for proprietary drivers is not a > mutual benefit anymore.  That might be hard to understand from your > point of view, but the incentives in the Open Source communities aren't > based on commercial results. DIS

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 22 December 2010 20:39, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: >> So to say that the corporate world might need to consider Open Source to >> be competitive and survive, but the reverse is not true i.e. Open Source >> doesn't _require_ the corporate world to survive. > > i agree with it fully, and to

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 22 December 2010 09:51, Matt Sealey wrote: > Okay I hereby refrain from legal comments. > > In any case, this code has passed legal at Freescale and AMD *AND* > Qualcomm. It would not be GPL if it has not been vetted (and it took > them a year to get to this point). It appears that this discus

Re: dpkg: emdebian.org and other machines patched for armhf support

2010-12-07 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 7 December 2010 18:35, Paul Brook wrote: >> In essence, I would like to express my objection in having the same triplet >> for both softfp and hard ABIs. I know upstream (ARM) objects, but IMHO they >> just haven't done the extensive compiling I have and didn't consider the >> problems (I doubt

Re: dpkg: emdebian.org and other machines patched for armhf support

2010-12-07 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Tuesday 07 December 2010 16:02:16 Hector Oron wrote: > Hello, > > I am patching machines to support armhf, which it is almost at 90% > built. I know you are very busy with squeeze release, but could you > give a comment if the patch is wrong or right, as we are using it for > patching machine