cross-distro January 2019

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nouveau h/w acceleration is blacklisted by default in chromium 71+

by Ard Biesheuvel

Hello all, (cc'ing everybody who I think might care - please ignore if you don't) Chromium [as of 71] now defaults to software rendering when it detects the nouveau driver. This is bad for the ARM ecosystem, since it is the only driver we have for NVIDIA hardware, and it has fewer issues than AMD GPU drivers + hardware running on ARM systenms. https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2019-January/031798.html It can be addressed by setting the 'ignore-gpu-blacklist' option, but this requires an explicit action from the user, which is unfortunate and undesirable. Is there any way we can influence this?

5 years, 3 months

Full rebuilds of the Debian archive for armel-on-arm64 and armhf-on-arm64

by Steve McIntyre

Hi folks, In the hope this might be interesting for people... I've just finished with my analysis of rebuilding the Debian archive for armel and armhf using arm64 build machines. I've been rebuilding the archive *specifically* to check if we would have any problems building our 32-bit Arm ports (armel and armhf) using 64-bit arm64 hardware. I might have found other issues too, but that was my goal. Executive summary: As far as I can see we're basically fine to use arm64 hosts for building armel and armhf, *so long as* those hosts include hardware support for the 32-bit A32 instruction set. As I've mentioned before in Debian, that's not a given on *all* arm64 machines, but there are sufficient machine types available that I think we should be fine. There are a couple of things we'll need to do in terms of setup. See https://blog.einval.com/2019/01/07#rebuilding_on_arm64 for the full article. Cheers, -- Steve McIntyre steve.mcintyre(a)linaro.org <http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs

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