From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 08 Jun 2006 03:29:00 +0100 (BST) Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.172.17]:35228 "EHLO nevyn.them.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8126480AbWFHC2v (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 03:28:51 +0100 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1FoAGK-0008B1-3h; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 22:28:44 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 22:28:44 -0400 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Kumba Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: N32 sigset and __COMPAT_ENDIAN_SWAP__ Message-ID: <20060608022844.GA31361@nevyn.them.org> References: <44878AAA.20007@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44878AAA.20007@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 11696 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: dan@debian.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:25:46PM -0400, Kumba wrote: > You might find the attached patch of interest. > > We've been using it gentoo-side for awhile now, as it allowed some N32 > programs to work correctly. Namely, a configure test in glib would trigger > a non-fatal oops in the kernel due to an issue this patch fixes. Daniel > Jacobwitz wrote it up when he apparently stumbled across the issue > (something wonky in n32's sigsuspend, as the name indicates. I forget the > specifics, though), but I'm unsure if the issue is in any way connected to > what you're seeing as well. It's already in the linux-mips.org tree, though, I believe. That was a different problem. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery