2.064 status, ARM status

[Johannes Pfau]

Am Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:16:13 +0000
schrieb Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at gdcproject.org>:

> On 14 December 2013 20:21, Ellery Newcomer
> <ellery-newcomer at utulsa.edu> wrote:
> > On 12/09/2013 06:25 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> >>
> >> I updated the ARM patches to the latest master version. I have to
> >> admit I was pleasantly surprised that going from 2.063 to 2.064
> >> did not cause any failing test cases in the test suite or failing
> >> unit tests. So ARM on 2.064 is also good to go now and it's
> >> probably a good idea to start merging the fixes.
> >> (Code is here: https://github.com/jpf91/GDC/commits/arm )
> >>
> >> One question related to the 2.064 merge: I see one failing test in
> >> the test suite, file runnable/template9.d. It fails with linker
> >> errors. Is this a known problem or could it be the gcc snapshot
> >> version I'm using (gcc-4.9-20131201)? This happens on x86/64 and
> >> ARM.
> >>
> >
> > I would love to play with this, but I have had no luck getting it
> > to build, either with crosstools or as a native build (I think my
> > board is running out of memory, and I know of no way to attach any
> > sort of hard disk to it for swap space).
> >
> 
> I had a similar problem with my trim slice after upgrading it to
> 12.04, which has only 1GB memory.  The daft buggers left swap turned
> off in the kernel, so I had to recompile linux with it enabled.  Got
> myself a serial cable (saved my life!) to get access to the boot
> console to first test that the built image work, then voila - I can
> now compile gcc. \o/

"Only 1GB" ;-)

I've got a first generation model B Raspberry PI, 256 mb ram (shared
with the graphics card). But at least Archlinux works fine on the
Raspberry and swap is supported out of the box :-P