[gentoo-dev] install media and USB debugging

2010-12-11 Thread Andrea Conti
Hi, (First of all: I'm not sure this list is the right place to ask. If it is not, feel free to point me in the right direction) Is there a specific reason why the kernel on the install media is built with CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG=y ? This has the nasty side-effect of completely overwriting

Re: [gentoo-dev] install media and USB debugging

2010-12-11 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2010.12.11 09:26, Andrea Conti wrote: > Hi, > > (First of all: I'm not sure this list is the right place to ask. If > it > > is not, feel free to point me in the right direction) > > Is there a specific reason why the kernel on the install media is > built > with CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG=y

[gentoo-dev] Move x86/amd64 CPU extensions USE flags to a new USE_EXPAND variable

2010-12-11 Thread Jeroen Roovers
Hi all, bugs like [1] makes clear to me that the increasing number of CPU extensions USE flags is getting more and more confusing. ffmpeg-0.6_p25767.ebuild : IUSE="+3dnow +3dnowext alsa altivec amr bindist +bzip2 cpudetection custom-cflags debug dirac doc +encode faac frei0r gsm +hardcoded-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Move x86/amd64 CPU extensions USE flags to a new USE_EXPAND variable

2010-12-11 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 12/11/10 18:57, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > Hi all, > > > bugs like [1] makes clear to me that the increasing number of CPU > extensions USE flags is getting more and more confusing. > [snip] > > Among all CPU extensions USE flags you'll find: > > 3dnow > 3dnowext > mmx > mmxext > sse > s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Move x86/amd64 CPU extensions USE flags to a new USE_EXPAND variable

2010-12-11 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 19:19:05 +0100 Patrick Lauer wrote: > How many packages are affected by those? > I like the idea, but I think changing it around for 2 packages might > be a bit silly. If there's a reasonable amount of packages involved > I'm all for it. How many packages use VIDEO_CARDS? How

Re: [gentoo-dev] Move x86/amd64 CPU extensions USE flags to a new USE_EXPAND variable

2010-12-11 Thread Matt Turner
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: [snip] I agree that this could be better. To me, most of the problems with this are due to users not knowing which of these should be set for their particular CPU. Instead of having defaults set by a profile, I'd like to figure out a way we

Re: [gentoo-dev] Move x86/amd64 CPU extensions USE flags to a new USE_EXPAND variable

2010-12-11 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 20:01, Matt Turner wrote: > I agree that this could be better. To me, most of the problems with > this are due to users not knowing which of these should be set for > their particular CPU. > > Instead of having defaults set by a profile, I'd like to figure out a > way we ca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Move x86/amd64 CPU extensions USE flags to a new USE_EXPAND variable

2010-12-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:57:58 +0100 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > bugs like [1] makes clear to me that the increasing number of CPU > extensions USE flags is getting more and more confusing. Another big confusion is that x86 and amd64 use the same names for many extensions, but often the archs require d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Move x86/amd64 CPU extensions USE flags to a new USE_EXPAND variable

2010-12-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday, December 11, 2010 12:57:58 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > but more like this: > > [ebuild N] media-video/ffmpeg-0.6_p25767 USE="bzip2 encode > hardcoded-tables zlib -X -alsa (-altivec) -amr -bindist -cpudetection > -custom-cflags -debug -dirac -doc -faac -frei0r -gsm -ieee1394 -jack >

[gentoo-dev] Re: Move x86/amd64 CPU extensions USE flags to a new USE_EXPAND variable

2010-12-11 Thread Duncan
Dirkjan Ochtman posted on Sat, 11 Dec 2010 20:03:39 +0100 as excerpted: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 20:01, Matt Turner wrote: >> I agree that this could be better. To me, most of the problems with >> this are due to users not knowing which of these should be set for >> their particular CPU. >> >> I

[gentoo-dev] Re: Move x86/amd64 CPU extensions USE flags to a new USE_EXPAND variable

2010-12-11 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:57:58 +0100 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > Among all CPU extensions USE flags you'll find: > > 3dnow > 3dnowext > mmx > mmxext > sse > sse2 > sse3 > sse4 > sse4a > sse5 > ssse3 > > I probably missed a few, there. sse4.1, sse4.2, avx sse5 was a draft, it was never implemented.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Move x86/amd64 CPU extensions USE flags to a new USE_EXPAND variable

2010-12-11 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 19:01:16 + Matt Turner wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > [snip] > > I agree that this could be better. To me, most of the problems with > this are due to users not knowing which of these should be set for > their particular CPU. > > Inste