[gentoo-dev] Lastrite: media-radio/fldigi (unless patched for fltk-1.3)

2011-12-22 Thread Samuli Suominen
# Samuli Suominen (23 Dec 2011) # Missing fltk-1.3 support and forced downgrade of fltk # in the same stabilization level which makes this gentoo-x86 # incompatible package. Bug 395747. Removal in 30 days. media-radio/fldigi

[gentoo-dev] New global USE flag "neon" for ARM NEON optimization(s)

2011-12-22 Thread Samuli Suominen
i'll add USE=neon to use.desc and punt the local descriptions if nobody objects media-libs/libpng: support ARM NEON cpu instruction set media-libs/vo-aacenc: Enable neon cpu instructions media-video/ffmpeg: Enables NEON optimizations for arm processors. media-video/libav: Enable NEON optimizatio

[gentoo-dev] Re: Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-22 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:09:16 -0500 as excerpted: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Michał Górny > wrote: >>> Just wanted to point out that (if there is enough memory) recent >>> kernels manage much better parallelism, even excess of it, once >>> reached the maximum load augm

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >> Just wanted to point out that (if there is enough memory) recent >> kernels manage much better parallelism, even excess of it, once >> reached the maximum load augmenting threads only bring minimal loss of >> "real" time. > > Does that inclu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-22 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:11:32 +0100 Francesco Riosa wrote: > > I tried messing around with this with Amazon EC2.  The problem was > > that due to latency I only really saw the benefit for VERY high > > levels of parallelization (think -j25+)..  However, make isn't > > actually "distcc-aware" so it

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in virtual/ffmpeg: ffmpeg-0.9.ebuild ChangeLog

2011-12-22 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:42:22 + (UTC) "Tomas Chvatal (scarabeus)" wrote: > Index: ffmpeg-0.9.ebuild [...] > KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc > ~x86 ~x86-fbsd" please be more careful with keywords, this would force people to switch to libav on arches where ffmp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-22 Thread Francesco Riosa
2011/12/22 Rich Freeman : > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Donnie Berkholz > wrote: >> I looked into this 6 or 7 years ago. It wasn't feasible unless you were >> on an extremely high-speed, low-latency network, beyond what was >> typically accessible at the time outside of universities and LAN

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > I looked into this 6 or 7 years ago. It wasn't feasible unless you were > on an extremely high-speed, low-latency network, beyond what was > typically accessible at the time outside of universities and LANs. Could > be worth exploring agai