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.

We're going to use this list for initial investigation, but the package(s) you work with may or may not be the ones you initially check out.

To do for October 7

Do an initial check on each of the packages in your list. It may be that they are already available for aarch64 (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.
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.
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.
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
To check to see if a package is available on a Fedora machine of a given architecture, use yum (e.g., yum list name-of-package) or repoquery, or look up the package in the package database.

Resources

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' (oddly, marked as 'noarch'?). 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 - present on fedora, currently only available for x86; porting probably required. - abstract machine testing utility
qemu-linaro - linaro present on fedora, coulnd't seem to find arm64 in Debian nor Ubuntu - processor emulator
xen - present on fedora, arm64 seems to exist for Debian - virtualization
gmerlin-encoders - not found on fedora, arm64 package exists for debian (jessie testing)
ncpfs - present on fedora, arm32 exists for Debian; Netware-related utilities;
snobol4 - could not find much on this.
magics++ - not present in fedora, arm64 on debian (sid unstable) weather forecasting software
radare2 - not present in fedora, arm64 on debian (sid unstable) ; free command line hex editor
gambc - not prsent in fedora, only x86 found on debian; ubuntu ; c interpreter and compiler
mono - not present in fedora, debian/ubuntu database doesn't list architectures on this package ; development tools
frysk - present on fedora, Execution analysis and debugging tool-suite. arm64 needs work

Emmanuel Ho Fidelino

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

Gabriel Castro

botan1.10

Crypto lib, has asm for performance, all asm has a c alternative.

Doesn't build for aarch64, but that is a matter of build scripts.

xz-utils

LZMA compression lib, debian has an arm64 build

mountall

asm in embedded copy of gettext;

Debian has an arm64 build

lcdf-typetools

asm in MD5 code, has C alternative

Debian has an arm64 build

db
sndobj

asm in timer code for x86, has c fallback,

asm for casting float/double to int, has c fallback

vo-amrwbenc
ffcall
abyss
samba4
libcrypto++
mjpegtools

Hunter Jansen

llvm-3.0 --- Looks to already be included under the name: llvm.aarch64
exim4 --- Looks to already be included under the name: exim.aarch64
italc --- Couldn't find an existing version
kexec-tools --- Couldn't find an available version
krb5 --- Doesn't look like there's one available, though there is this: [1](opensuse)
gem --- Couldn't find existing version
ruby-prof --- nada
gnutls28 --- niente
snort --- maybe, but just not in yum? [2](here)
llvm-2.9 --- Potentially the same issue as llvm-3.0?
xvidcore --- Looks like there's nothin'
ruby1.8 --- Not explicitly 1.8 - but there is a ruby.aarch64 v 2.1.2

Kieran Sedgwick

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

Linpei Fan

blcr - Berkely Lab Checkpoint.Restart, not present in Fedora, present in repositories for Debian / Ubuntu in i386 and x86_64.
grub2 - Grand Unified Bootloader, included in Fedora x86_64, but not in Fedora aarch64.
php5 - Included in Fedora x86_64 and aarch64 under name php, present in repositories for Debian / Ubuntu in all architectures.
libinnodb - Embedded InnoDB Library, not present in Fedora, present in repositories for Debian in i386 and x86_64, and for Ubuntu in i386, x86_64 and arm32.
ocaml-sha - SHA cryptographic hash functions for OCaml (Objective Caml complier), not present in Fedora, source package present in Debian/Ubuntu.
libhmsbeagle - High-performance lib for Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood phylogenetics, not not present in Fedora, present for Debian in i386, x86_64 and arm32, and for Ubuntu in i386 and x86_64.
maude - High-performance logical framework, not present in Fedora, present for Debian in i386, x86_64 and arm32, and for Ubuntu in i386 and x86_64
rtai - Real time application interface, not present in Fedora, present for Debian/Ubuntu in i386 and x86_64.
kamailio - Very fast and configurable SIP proxy, not present in Fedora, present for Debian/Ubuntu in i386 and x86_64.
gesftpserver - Sftp server submodule for OpenSSH, not present in Fedora, present for Debian in i386, x86_64 and arm32, and for Ubuntu in i386 and x86_64.
bsign - Corruption & intrusion detection using embedded hashes, not present in Fedora, present for Debian/Ubuntu in i386 only.
openjdk-6 - Java runtime base on OpenJDK, not present in Fedora, present for Debian in i386, x86_64 and arm32, and for Ubuntu in i386 and x86_64.

Omid Djahanpour

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

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