From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
Cc: 42686@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#42686] Update to linux-libre 5.7
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 13:42:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200803174200.GA16760@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878sewup6e.fsf@gnu.org>
On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 10:08:41AM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:
> Nice! Adding a new branch to the CI will only allow us to know if this
> builds for armhf-linux and aarch64-linux architectures. You should be
> able to do that on your machine with the following commands:
>
> guix build -s armhf-linux linux-libre
> guix build -s aarch64-linux linux-libre
>
> but you need to setup qemu-binfmt first. It would also be nice to test
> cross-compilation this way:
My workstation is not very powerful so I'd rather use the build farm.
> > * Enable the compressed cache for swap pages by default? (ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON)
> >
> > Should we enable this? It seems useful and the compression algorithms
> > are known to be very fast. Are there any downsides?
>
> There's at least Archlinux that is enabling it by default[1], but using LZ4
> algorithm instead of the default LZO. No strong opinion otherwise.
Good to know! I wonder if any other distros are...
> > * Enable the DMA-BUF userland memory heaps? This options creates per
> > heap chardevs in /dev/dma_heap/ which allows userspace to allocate
> > dma-bufs that can be shared between drivers. (DMABUF_HEAPS)
> >
> > I don't really know what that means.
>
> I think it's targeting embedded devices mainly, but it can't hurt to
> enable it.
If that's the case, I would leave it disabled. Guix is not really
appropriate for embedded systems.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-03 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-02 22:43 [bug#42686] Update to linux-libre 5.7 Leo Famulari
2020-08-03 8:08 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-08-03 17:42 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2020-08-03 21:00 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-08-03 21:55 ` Leo Famulari
2020-08-04 10:04 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-08-05 17:25 ` Leo Famulari
2020-08-04 10:36 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-08-05 17:24 ` Leo Famulari
2020-08-05 17:27 ` bug#42686: " Leo Famulari
2020-08-06 7:35 ` [bug#42686] " Mathieu Othacehe
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