Bug#819207: ITP: arch-detect -- detect architectures supported by your machine/kernel

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 6:50 PM, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>

* Package name : arch-detect
Upstream Author : me
* URL : https://github.com/kilobyte/arch-detect
* License : MIT
Programming Lang: mostly assembler
Description : detect architectures supported by your machine/kernel

It seems like the naming would clash with archdetect (from hw-detect, built with some libdebian-installer magic).

That package is currently just a udeb, but it *does* make sense as a standard package, there might simply be a need to do some renaming.

I'm not saying it's a bad name, just that there already exists an archdetect, and having just a - as a difference may be confusing. It may be worth combining the two "projects" if possible. I know archdetect should work on kfreebsd-*.

This package lets you enumerate architectures that your kernel can run.
The check is for the ability to run machine code and supporting appropriate
syscall ABI -- you may need to install userland libraries in a chroot,
container or via multiarch to actually execute non-static binaries of such
architectures.

What would the expected output be on a typical amd64 system? Does it differentiate between EFI and non-EFI?

/ Matt

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