Fall 2014 SPO600 Packages by Participant

Overview

This is the package list from http://performance.linaro.org, with packages already in the Fedora Aarch64 repositories removed, divided between the Fall 2014 SPO600 participants.

To do for October 7

1. Do an initial check on each of the packages in your list. It may be that they are already available for ARM (maybe under a slightly-different name), that they don't exist in Fedora but do exist in other distros, that nobody cares about them anymore, or something else.
2. Take a look at the notes on the Linaro Performance Challenge site for each package. This will give you a little bit of information about the porting/optimization required for each package.
3. Briefly annotate each of the entries in your part of this page (i.e., mark them up with a brief note about what you've found). See my section for an example.
4. Blog about your package list.

Note:

• This list is divided up by participant only for the purpose of investigation right now. We may redistribute this list as we start work on these packages.
• There may be packages that were removed because they exist in the Fedora Aarch64 repositories that should actually be included here, because they need optimization.
• Different distros and projects refer to architectures by different names:
  • i386 == x86_32 == i586 == i686 (more or less!)
  • x86_64 == amd64
  • arm32 == aarch32 == armhf == armv7hl
  • arm64 == aarch64

Resources

• Linaro Performance Challenge
• Fedora Package Database
• Ubuntu Packages
• Debian Packages

The List

Adam Sharpe

• yate
• x264
• fxt
• avian
• aften
• samhain
• python3.3
• postgres-xc
• lzo2
• gfarm
• mpich2
• unicorn-scan

Brendan Henderson

• pcre3
• unrar-free
• vflib3
• php-apc
• mysql-5.5
• fwts
• llvm-3.1
• smlsharp
• mpfr4
• gccxml
• puf
• insserv

Chris Tyler

• acpidump - included in Fedora aarch64 as part of 'acpica-tools' - may be slightly different version.
• glib2.0 - included in Fedora aarch64 under the name 'glib2'.
• newlib - intended for embedded systems. ARM32 version in Fedora as 'arm-none-eabi-newlib'. Aarch64 version might be a fair bit of work.
• nana - not present in Fedora, present in repositories for Debian but not arm64/aarch64. Can probably get working easily except for timers.
• lam - not present in Fedora. Message Passing Interface (MPI) implementation - do we need this if we have OpenMPI?
• radare - reverse-engineering tools - very arch-specific. Not present in Fedora; present in Ubuntu/Debian but only for x86_32 and x86_64. Upstream website says that aarch64 is supported (?).
• libcrypt-cast5-perl - not present in Fedora; present in Ubuntu/Debian but only for x86_32/x86_64. The portable version is perl-Crypt-CAST5_PP, but probably lower performance.
• brutefir - audio library - not present in Fedora; present in Ubuntu/Debian for x86 and arm64. May be using C fallbacks.
• libgc - garbage collection library - not present in Fedora; present in Ubuntu/Debian for x86 and arm64. Wonder if the arm64 build works properly?
• boinc-app-seti - SETI client for BOINC framework. Not in Fedora, present in Ubuntu/Debian for x86 and arm64. Does anyone use this?
• nuitka - python compiler, Ubuntu/Debian has x86_32 build only. Not present in Fedora.
• sbsigntool - tool to sign and verify UEFI secure boot files. Ubuntu notes indicate that it's patched to sign arm64 images, but doesn't run on arm64. Not in Fedora.

Edwin Lum

• amtu
• qemu-linaro
• xen
• gmerlin-encoders
• ncpfs
• snobol4
• magics++
• radare2
• gambc
• mono
• frysk

Emmanuel Ho Fidelino

• ace
• mlt
• racket
• simgrid
• gmap
• gnu-efi
• avidemux
• libgcroots
• jscoverage
• eigen3
• ugene
• gatling

Gabriel Castro

• botan1.10
• xz-utils
• mountall
• lcdf-typetools
• db
• sndobj
• vo-amrwbenc
• ffcall
• abyss
• samba4
• libcrypto++
• mjpegtools

Hunter Jansen

• llvm-3.0
• exim4
• italc
• kexec-tools
• krb5
• gem
• ruby-prof
• gnutls28
• snort
• llvm-2.9
• xvidcore
• ruby1.8

Kieran Sedgwick

• drbd8
• lame
• openjdk-7
• upx-ucl
• gmp4
• libfame
• lwipv6
• gnulib
• icon
• libmad
• scheme2c
• mozart

Linpei Fan

• blcr
• grub2
• php5
• libinnodb
• ocaml-sha
• libhmsbeagle
• maude
• rtai
• kamailio
• gesftpserver
• bsign
• openjdk-6

Omid Djahanpour

• mozjs
• ruby1.9.1
• xmds
• binfmtc
• rheolef
• aribas
• xen-api-libs
• bunny
• nwchem
• eigen2
• vo-aacenc
• sbcl