From: snehal <snehal@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-modules <linux-modules@vger.kernel.org>,
Deepak C Shetty <deepakcs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Question regarding kmod pkg
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 12:29:00 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52AAB034.6070305@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKi4VA+AyBwpHNzHLqDAz09da-fvRzXRogXrPzqgwWazzQvh3A@mail.gmail.com>
Thank you for your reply.
We are following up with libtool maintainer for releasing the new
version. Would keep your updated about the same.
PS: Current aplha release looks to have no issues, many upstream
maintainers have already used and released the tar, which supports ppc64le.
Thanks & regards,
Snehal
On 12/12/2013 07:42 PM, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> Hi Snehal,
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 6:50 AM, snehal <snehal@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am working on a new architecture - ppc64le (powerpc 64-bit Little
>> Endian) and I was working on kmod pkg on our ppc64le environment.
>>
>> The upstream tarball has the config.guess,config.sub, configure and
>> libtool files
>>
>> I find that kmod already has updated config.guess, which supports ppc64le.
>> Following is the latest file, I suppose this is already in tar.
>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD.
>>
>>
>> We have worked with libtool maintainer to get alpha source release
>> that has all the needed bits to support building on ppc64le.We request you
>> to spin
>> off a new version of your package using the alpha libtool release. You
>> can pick up the libtool alpha source release from either of the below :
>>
>> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.418.tar.gz (1.6MB)
>>
>> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.418.tar.xz (920KB)
>>
>>
>> Could you please build and install the libtool alpha version and be able
>> to spin new versions of kmod which would support ppc64le?
>>
>> Please let me know once you spin of the new pkg
>>
>> Your response is highly appreciated
> This is something that could be easily done by distributions
> supporting this new architecture. Once libtool releases a new version
> this patch can naturally be removed from kmod and other packages.
>
> We already ship with a very recent version in the tarball and suffer
> because of this (see 9de9e07da6ce6fc110b4359ff058b13b5e92dcf4). My
> past experience with libtool developers fixing bugs or at least
> answering the bugs reported is pretty bad, so I won't update to an
> alpha version anytime soon.
>
> regards,
> Lucas De Marchi
>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-11 8:50 Question regarding kmod pkg snehal
2013-12-12 14:12 ` Lucas De Marchi
2013-12-13 6:59 ` snehal [this message]
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