January 2017 - Dev - Clearlinux.Org

by Sven Hartrumpf

Hi all. Does Clear Linux support running binaries for the x32 ABI? If I look at the following line # CONFIG_X86_X32 is not set in https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/linux-lts/blob/master/config , it seems to be disabled. For many applications, x32 clearly outperforms i386 and x86-64, e.g. (for functional programming): https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2015-09/msg00000.html https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/bigloo/2016-12/msg00015.html In the long run, also compiling x32 binaries could be an important performance option for Clear Linux. Ciao Sven

10 months, 2 weeks

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DPDK support is openvswitch is broken and configuration documentation is outdated

by Marcos Felipe Schwarz

Hi all. I tried to use the openvswitch with dpdk in Clear Linux 12450, but noticed a few problems. First, since version 2.6.0 the procedure to enable DPDK has changed and the flag --dpdk is not supported by the ovs-vswitchd command anymore, instead it is now necessary to configure DPDK using the ovs-vsctl command to set the other_config field with the desired parameters as detailed in https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/blob/branch-2.6/INSTALL.DPDK.md. So the documentation in https://clearlinux.org/documentation/ac-ovs-dpdk.html should be updated. Exchanging the procedure number 7 from the "Using Linux OpenvSwitch-DPDK" section to the one detailed in the 2.6 documentation, ex: ovs-vsctl --no-wait set Open_vSwitch . other_config:dpdk-init=true ovs-vsctl --no-wait set Open_vSwitch . other_config:dpdk-socket-mem="2048,0" Second, even with the correct commands, dpdk was not working, since the package is missing the flag "--with-dpdk" in the configure command of the SPEC file. After regenerating the package and using the correct procedure, the dpdk support in OVS worked as expected. Regards, Marcos Schwarz Diretoria de Pesquisa & Desenvolvimento (DPD) / Research & Development Department Gerência de Redes para Experimentos (GRE) / Management of Network for Experiments RNP – Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa http://www.rnp.br Telefone: +55 (19) 3787 3386 E-mail: marcos.schwarz(a)rnp.br

2 years, 9 months

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[PATCH clr-bundles] Deprecate sysadmin-advanced

by William Douglas

The sysadmin-advanced bundle pulls in a variety of parts from other bundles. Have users to pull those bits in themselves (with more complete toolchains) or use a more conglomerate bundle (user-basic) instead. --- bundles/sysadmin-advanced | 32 ++++---------------------------- bundles/sysadmin-basic | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) diff --git a/bundles/sysadmin-advanced b/bundles/sysadmin-advanced index 6a64a74..41de3fb 100644 --- a/bundles/sysadmin-advanced +++ b/bundles/sysadmin-advanced @@ -1,32 +1,8 @@ # [TITLE]: sysadmin-advanced # [DESCRIPTION]: Toolchest that a sysadmin needs to diagnose issues -# [STATUS]: Active -# [CAPABILITIES]: +# [STATUS]: Deprecated +# [CAPABILITIES]: # [MAINTAINER]: Arjan van de Ven <arjan(a)linux.intel.com> +include(dev-utils) +include(network-basic) include(sysadmin-basic) -include(pnp-tools-advanced) -gdb -strace -ltrace -powertop -mcelog -clr-debug-info -linux-tools -procps-ng -numactl -util-linux -coreutils -iputils -iproute2 -net-tools -dmidecode -tcpdump -netcat -lsacpi -pciutils -usbutils -acpica-unix2 -hdparm -setserial -iperf -socat diff --git a/bundles/sysadmin-basic b/bundles/sysadmin-basic index e0fe127..d2e3204 100644 --- a/bundles/sysadmin-basic +++ b/bundles/sysadmin-basic @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ # pciutils is not autospeced and so -data and -doc are specified manually # This bundle specificly contains all -doc bundles for os-core as well due # to size constraints for os-core. +acpica-unix2 bash bzip2 clr-boot-manager @@ -15,6 +16,7 @@ collectl coreutils cpuid dbus +dmidecode dos2unix e2fsprogs efibootmgr @@ -24,8 +26,10 @@ gawk gawk-extras grep gzip +hdparm hostname htop +iperf iproute2 kbd kmod @@ -37,9 +41,11 @@ lsof man-db man-pages mc +mcelog mosh motd-update nano +numactl parallel pciutils pciutils-data @@ -49,10 +55,12 @@ powertop procps-ng psmisc sed +setserial shadow shadow-doc shadow-locale sharutils +socat strace sudo systemd -- 2.11.0

2 years, 9 months

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[PATCH clr-bundles] add debuginfo to telemetrics, we always need debuginfo if we're going to send crash reports

by William Douglas

From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan(a)linux.intel.com> --- bundles/telemetrics | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/bundles/telemetrics b/bundles/telemetrics index 1faae33..6106d1a 100644 --- a/bundles/telemetrics +++ b/bundles/telemetrics @@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ # [MAINTAINER]: Robert A Nesius <robert.a.nesius(a)intel.com> swupd-probe telemetrics-client +clr-debug-info -- 2.11.0

2 years, 9 months

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[PATCH clr-bundles] Deprecate sysadmin-advanced

by William Douglas

The sysadmin-advanced bundle pulls in a variety of parts from other bundles. Have users to pull those bits in themselves (with more complete toolchains) or use a more conglomerate bundle (user-basic) instead. --- bundles/sysadmin-advanced | 32 +++----------------------------- bundles/sysadmin-basic | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) diff --git a/bundles/sysadmin-advanced b/bundles/sysadmin-advanced index 6a64a74..f52e18c 100644 --- a/bundles/sysadmin-advanced +++ b/bundles/sysadmin-advanced @@ -1,32 +1,6 @@ # [TITLE]: sysadmin-advanced # [DESCRIPTION]: Toolchest that a sysadmin needs to diagnose issues -# [STATUS]: Active -# [CAPABILITIES]: +# [STATUS]: Deprecated +# [CAPABILITIES]: # [MAINTAINER]: Arjan van de Ven <arjan(a)linux.intel.com> -include(sysadmin-basic) -include(pnp-tools-advanced) -gdb -strace -ltrace -powertop -mcelog -clr-debug-info -linux-tools -procps-ng -numactl -util-linux -coreutils -iputils -iproute2 -net-tools -dmidecode -tcpdump -netcat -lsacpi -pciutils -usbutils -acpica-unix2 -hdparm -setserial -iperf -socat +filesystem diff --git a/bundles/sysadmin-basic b/bundles/sysadmin-basic index e0fe127..d2e3204 100644 --- a/bundles/sysadmin-basic +++ b/bundles/sysadmin-basic @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ # pciutils is not autospeced and so -data and -doc are specified manually # This bundle specificly contains all -doc bundles for os-core as well due # to size constraints for os-core. +acpica-unix2 bash bzip2 clr-boot-manager @@ -15,6 +16,7 @@ collectl coreutils cpuid dbus +dmidecode dos2unix e2fsprogs efibootmgr @@ -24,8 +26,10 @@ gawk gawk-extras grep gzip +hdparm hostname htop +iperf iproute2 kbd kmod @@ -37,9 +41,11 @@ lsof man-db man-pages mc +mcelog mosh motd-update nano +numactl parallel pciutils pciutils-data @@ -49,10 +55,12 @@ powertop procps-ng psmisc sed +setserial shadow shadow-doc shadow-locale sharutils +socat strace sudo systemd -- 2.11.0

2 years, 9 months

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swupd-client 3.7.6 Release Notes

by Marcu, Tudor

This client release enables mandatory signature verification, which means the Manifest.MoM signature MUST verify correctly for an update operation to continue, else swupd will exit. This ensures that wherever the content comes from, clients are guaranteed to receive the "correct" content that they were intended to consume. It also forces clients to remain on the secure update path if only verifiable content is allowed on the system.

2 years, 9 months

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[PATCH clr-bundles] Add gmp to c-basic

by William Douglas

gmp is required for building compiler plugins so add it to c-basic. --- bundles/c-basic | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/bundles/c-basic b/bundles/c-basic index 02c71c2..dd7d6bc 100644 --- a/bundles/c-basic +++ b/bundles/c-basic @@ -17,10 +17,14 @@ cmake-dev flex gcc gcc-dev -libstdc++ glibc-utils +gmp-dev +gmp-doc +gmp-lib +gmp-libgmpxx4 libc6-dev libc6-locale +libstdc++ libtool libtool-dev linux-libc-headers -- 2.11.0

2 years, 9 months

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Dual boot with existing UEFI OSes

by LeMay, Michael

Hi, What is the procedure for installing Clear Linux alongside existing UEFI OSes? I'm replacing a previous installation of RHEL with Clear Linux, and I want Clear Linux to overwrite the boot loader configuration from RHEL. The first OS installed on the system was Windows 8.1, and that needs to remain installed. I tried setting the mountpoint of the existing UEFI partition to /boot in the Clear Linux installer, and I can see that the installer has populated /boot/loader with various files. However, when I boot the system, the RHEL bootloader appears with only the old RHEL and Windows boot options. Thanks, Michael LeMay

2 years, 9 months

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[PATCH clr-bundles] Add efibootmgr to os-core-update

by William Douglas

Also ensure docs are included in sysadmin-basic. --- bundles/os-core-update | 1 + bundles/sysadmin-basic | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/bundles/os-core-update b/bundles/os-core-update index 10a6bd0..3285611 100644 --- a/bundles/os-core-update +++ b/bundles/os-core-update @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ bzip2 clr-boot-manager-bin clr-boot-manager-config clr-hardware-files +efibootmgr-bin findutils-bin gzip-bin pacrunner diff --git a/bundles/sysadmin-basic b/bundles/sysadmin-basic index e1d37e5..3a216f1 100644 --- a/bundles/sysadmin-basic +++ b/bundles/sysadmin-basic @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ cpuid dbus dos2unix e2fsprogs +efibootmgr file findutils gawk -- 2.11.0

2 years, 9 months

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[PATCH clr-bundles] Include binutils subpackages for c-basic

by William Douglas

Add development headers and documentation for binutils. This will allow users to build gcc plugins with the c-basic bundle. --- bundles/c-basic | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/bundles/c-basic b/bundles/c-basic index 9616833..02c71c2 100644 --- a/bundles/c-basic +++ b/bundles/c-basic @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ autogen automake automake-dev binutils +binutils-dev +binutils-doc +binutils-locale bison cmake cmake-dev -- 2.11.0

2 years, 9 months

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