Hi folks,
Following on from the founding of the cross-distro ARM mailing list,
I'd like to propose an ARM summit at this year's Linux Plumbers
conference [1]. I'm hoping for a slot on Thursday evening, but this
remains to be confirmed at this point.
We had some lively discussion about the state of ARM Linux distros at
the Linaro Connect [2] event in Cambridge last week. It rapidly became
clear that some of the topics we discussed deserve a wider audience,
so we're suggesting a meetup at Plumbers for that bigger
discussion. The initial proposed agenda is:
* ARM hard-float
+ What is it and why does it matter?
+ How can distributions keep compatible (i.e. gcc triplet to
describe the port)?
* Adding support for ARM as an architecture to the Linux Standard
Base (LSB)
+ Does it matter?
+ What's needed?
* FHS - multi-arch coming soon, how do we proceed?
* 3D support on ARM platforms
+ Open GL vs. GLES - which is appropriate?
but I'm sure that other people will think of more issues they'd like
to discuss. :-)
If you wish to attend, please reply to the cross-distro list and let
us know to expect you. Make sure you're registered to attend Plumbers
Conf, and get your travel and accommodation organised ASAP.
[1] http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2011/
[2] http://connect.linaro.org/
Cheers,
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Steve McIntyre steve.mcintyre(a)linaro.org
<http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
Hi folks,
In the coming few weeks, I've got space/time organised for some more
face-to-face meetings in case they're useful:
* ARM BoF at FOSDEM (currently scheduled for Sunday afternoon 5th
Feb in one of the distro Devrooms)
* Session(s) at Linaro Connect in San Francisco the following week
I'm expecting to (at least) discuss ARM progress in various distros
(including the new HF ABI) and build/port issues. If you have anything
you'd like to discuss at one or both of these events, please speak up
and/or come along!
Cheers,
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Steve McIntyre steve.mcintyre(a)linaro.org
<http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
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Pardon me for jumping in (and perhaps making some incorrect assumptions)...
I've hit a snag trying to run software that links to ICU
(http://site.icu-project.org/) in Debian Unstable on an armhf box I'm
testing with. I opened a bug report in Debian and posted a question to
the Debian-arm list to see if I could get this issue resolved.
Bug report:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=653457
Email thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-arm@lists.debian.org/msg13111.html
After running some stack traces and reading the patches referenced in
this thread (which are included in the current eglibc 2.13-24 I'm
running) I may have hit an odd problem case.
It turns out that the icu code has a file /usr/lib/libicudata.so.48
which is not actually a normal library. According to the Debian
maintainer for icu, it is actually static data in the form of a library
used as a speed hack for loading times. When I run any code that links
that library, I get an uncommented exit during library loading with a
code of '1'.
Could I possibly be hitting the "#ifdef __ARM_PCS_VFP" case and exiting?
How can I fix this case? I'll be happy to test any patches.
Tony
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Anthony L. Awtrey
http://awtrey.com/
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